A Beginner’s Guide to Slow Living
Listen to the birds
I wake up and I kid you not, if I leave my windows open, I can hear bird song.
It’s summertime in the UK. The sun bounces off the blazes of grass, the air is cool, the bees are buzzing, the flowers are in full bloom. There’s something quite magical about this time.
Life is so abundant in the summer months.
I look outside and can see all the jobs I have yet to do. All the projects ahead of me. The raised beds for next year's veg. The borders left to dig. The path left to finish.
But for some reason, none of that overwhelms me. For all the right reasons, I’m calm and excited about the future ahead.
Make time for the true joys of your life
Some things make a day exponentially better.
For me? A dog walk, a good meal, a great book. Weirdly though, they seem to be the first things that go once the pressure mounts. When the work piles up, things get chaotic, perhaps like me, you do away with these things.
But yet, they are the very source of your calmness. The trick is to not let these things slip when times get chaotic. In fact, to lean into these things as a way to center you.
