The Pause

Welcome to The Pause,

Just as the winter is a time to turn in and conserve our energy, the arrival of spring signals new growth. This is true not just in the natural world, but in our inner world.

That’s why the time around the Spring Equinox felt like the right time to begin my new blog,The Pause. Then as so often happens, life interrupts our plans. That interruption is often a gift, a grace—a call to see with new eyes. So now as summer approaches, I am here beginning again.

The Pause is intended as a space of reflection, not necessarily in the psychological sense of ruminating about our problems, but in the true meditative sense of being present to our felt sense of life as it is right now. Letting it arise and allowing space to let it be. 

The meditative pause contains within it the deepest sort of listening, both to our own inner experience and to that of others. The silence is whole, in and of itself. A perfect reflection, really, of our own inherent wholeness. Perhaps that is why it is so often depicted as a single drop of water at rest, representing something that is internally whole, distinct —the world around it mirrored perfectly in it’s surface tension— and yet containing the knowing that in next moment or the next after that, that drop of water will rejoin the greater wholeness. How incredibly healing to mind, body, and spirit.

My intention for this blog is to provide gentle encouragement and guidance to help you rest, reflect, and restore. I’ll be offering insights from my own ongoing journey and suggested practices for meditation, mindfulness and healing. I hope you’ll travel along with me.

Until next time, be kind to yourself.

Peace & Love,

Kathleen