One Apple A Day #1093
"Slow down to stretch the space so what wants to emerge will emerge."
I think it was day four or five of our eight days pilgrimage on the Narmada when I wrote these words in my notebook.
The first two days were shocking in many ways. All of a sudden, we jumped into a completely different world. All the familiar things of our lives were left behind. It took only a few kilometres along the river for the first ideas and revelations to emerge.
It was an exciting feeling. The slowing down, the nature and the removal of all usual distractions created a sudden sense of clarity. It was as if our senses expanded and the mind could see more. Back home, we would have immediately leapt into action, trying to transform that newfound clarity into some outcome.
Instead, we kept walking and slowing down. We stayed with what was emerging, so we discovered more. We went beyond and beneath the first ideas, finding something previously invisible to our cluttered minds.
The fear of missing out makes us cram every corner of our lives and minds with stuff. Until there is no space and time for new ideas to emerge.
By deliberately slowing down, we stretch space and time, creating rooms for the new to emerge.
Slowness is a mighty creative practice.