The Power of Pause !

 

Sunday 21^st September   Day 23290

 

In today’s fast paced and dynamic world, a huge emphasis is given to speed, velocity and momentum. Getting many more things done, quicker, faster. Time is at a premium really.

If we look at Nature closely, it may at first appear very static. But for the wind and the swaying trees, rustling leaves, the waves in the beaches, ripples on the lake, the drifting clouds and the flying birds etc, everything appears static and rooted in its place. But in reality, LIFE energy is throbbing in each blade of grass and in every tree trunk.

The cycle of day and night is a daily experience that we all have. The night in between two days, when everyone (at least most of us) settles down for a much-needed rest is a recovery and reenergisation phase. A pause.

Between every inhalation and exhalation there is a subtle pause.

Between every heartbeat and pulse there is a gentle pause.

Between every seasonal change Spring – Summer – Autumn – Winter, there is a gentle pause and a shift.

Between Uttarayana and Dakshinayana there is a pause.

A pause can be very subtle and may tend to get ignored if the observation was only on the main event. Like breathing for example, we may think that it isa two stage process oof just Inhalation and Exhalation. But when you look closely there are two pauses in the fullness of breath and in the emptiness of breath. It is the pause which gives a sense of impetus to the next step.

As we go through our daily routine and our weekly / monthly calendar schedules, we look at the main events listed on them. We prepare and gear up for each such event.

Do we plan and prepare for a pause?

When we take a vacation or a holiday, which is a kind of pause, we do plan well for it. But after the pause are we really energised and pumped up or are we dead tired? Do we stack up so much into a holiday / vacation that we get weakened and tired at the end of the vacation?

How can we really leverage the pause? Can we use every pause to reframe / relax / rest / redirect / rethink / repurpose / renavigate our Life?

Can we welcome the next moment consciously and not compulsively? Can we use a pause to deepen our consciousness?

What exactly is our state of BEING and what is the impact we want to leave on the planet?  Can we look at LIFE in totality, even though we know the brevity of Life….just around 30000 – 33000 days if we are “lucky”. In this limited quantity of LIFE, can we enhance the QUALITY of every moment that is yet to come?

Can we really Live Life To The Maximum?

Can we use every pause to re-calibrate?

Can we look deep into the journey that we are on and enrich it so much during every pause. For that infinitesimal moment during a pause can we take our eyes off the destination and look at the journey deeply?  

Every machine / vehicle has a maintenance / service PAUSE. Every human has a medical check-up as a health pause. Oftentimes these pauses are forced upon us because of past neglect. Can the pauses be more conscious and planned out so that our journeys are richer and we get tom travel to many different destinations?

Live Life To The Maximum!