What spaces are you allowing in your life?

If there were no spaces between the words I’m writing, this sentence would be only a run on mess of letters. When we speak to one another, we add little pauses where commas or periods would be. Without these spaces, it would be difficult to communicate effectively with one another.

So, too, we need spaces in our lives in order to make sense of what’s going on. We live in such a pressure cooker of performance and goals and results that if we’re not careful our lives can become a mish mash of meaningless actions.

Would our world be in the mess we’re in if enough people took the time to reset on a regular basis? If more people gave themselves the space to feel, think, dream, and vision, to cuddle up with Mother Nature, would they be so quick to attack and demean others? I don’t think so. People who attack others do so from a place of insuffiency, from their own feelings of lack of self-worth.

I realize there are many areas needing healing right now. I would like to suggest one place to begin is by putting more spaces in our lives and encouraging others to do the same. Let’s encourage the practice of taking the time to be with our own thoughts and feelings, breathing consciously, surrounding ourselves with nature, and giving the space needed for healing thoughts and feelings to arise. From this space, taking inspired actions becomes much easier.