Nourishment For Your Mind, Less is More

Doing less leads to more love, more effectiveness and internal calmness, and a greater ability to accomplish more of what matters most to us, and by extension to others in the world.
It's easy to get caught up in doing activities. We live in a fast paced world full of text messages, emails...blogs. Providing opportunities for our children to pursue their interest and talents while maintaining a good education can feel overwhelming and exhausting.
Where does it end? When do we finally get to exhale? How do we cut the clutter from our busy lives? How do we spend more time doing what really matters while being less busy?
Less is more. It's simply profound paradox that gets missed when we're scurrying about completing our to do lists. Yoga continually invites us to slow down, push less, be present. The result...greater and faster gains with more satisfaction. When we approach any task in the right spirit, we become more successful and efficient at it. When we engage in fewer self-defeating behaviors, engage in less fear, become less distracted, we accomplish more of whatever we set our hearts to.
In Marc Lesser's book Less he lists 5 ways to learn to do less.

1. Take time to rest metally and physically in between our outside of our usual activities. Find an activity that feeds your soul and revitalizes your spirit, like yoga and meditation.
2. Pause in the midst of activities: mindfullness practices like connecting with our breath between emails or walking meditation.
3. Identify and reduce unnecessary activities, things that are not in alignment with what we want to accomplish.
4. Be completely present for what we are doing, without sacrificing or rushing what's in front of us in order to get to "more important" stuff later. No matter how mundane the activity, treat everything as important and take pleasure in it. Whatever we are doing right now is what we are engaged in and it deserves our full attention and appreciation.
5. Integrate effort with a feeling of effortlessness. This sounds like a contradiction but it isn't With practice, we all can find that sweet spot that combines engagement, creativity and composure. Non-excess.

Fear less, hope more; Eat less, Chew more; Whine less, breath more; Talk less, say more; Love more and all good things will be yours. ~ Swedish Proverb

Nourishment For Your Time Workshops
February 6th, 9-12pm Historic Relief Society Building, Richmond Utah with Jodi Christensen
March 27th, 10-1pm Spiritual Deli, Duluth, MN with Jodi Christensen and Hilary Buckwalter

www.spiritualdeli.com