Sometimes you need to back up to move forward , sometimes you need to slow down.
Can you remember you started to write, or walk or cycle? We were slow, right? But quickly we caught up and fast enough, there was no need to be slow anymore. Nowdays we are so much used to the fast speeds we never think about doing something slow, only faster!
How rediculus to ride a bicycle slowly? You will off balance and fall. Have you ever tried to drive a car slowly? Mind you, it is more difficult than you think, going slow is more difficult than going fast. How about walking?. What is the slowest can you run in the park? What is the slowest can you walk?
If you haven't tried that trick beore I suggest you to try today. Select something you often do. Something fast, something monotonous and try slowing down. Try slowing down and you will see things you have not noticed before.
The most fascinating thing about slowing down by choice is you start to notice things. If you are walking in the park you will start to see, nice shadows on the parth layed there by the sun. Swaying leaves and twigs here and there. You will notice ferns, with dew on them, even the grass will look nice. You will start to notice small flowers in them, tiny ones and even you will stop to bend down to investigate tiny flying insects attracted to them.
Do you think that will happen if you were running?
I can give you more and more examples.
Try eating slowly. 0.5 x speed you do normally. You will smell, and crunch. Your salivary glands will be angry, they will flood the mouth. Toungue will ask you to hurry up and swallow, but do not let in. And you will feel it taste better, or awful. Either way, it is interesting.
I will stop there. Try reading the article slower this time. Find out more meanings you did not understand or skimmed through the first time.
Make a list of things you would try do slowly.
Make a comment on your new insights on ordinary things.
Thank you for reading - slow is the new fast , a mindfulness trick.
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