Does a slower paced life lead to mastery?
I’ve been pondering this question for a few days now.
For me, it feels like an instant yes!
Is life slow paced for everyone? Possibly.
If you read my previous post about leaving the coaching scene on social media, you know that I have been wrapped in this fast paced world of more, more and more and I’ve recently let it go.
It’s only been about a week or a little longer that I have chosen to move more into writing and I can already feel that extra piece of mastery coming to life. I have wanted to write for a very long time but I allowed beliefs that I wasn’t smart enough or articulate enough to stop me doing it full time.
What I have noticed since making the decision to stop marketing 100% on social media, is my nervous system is slowly, slowing down and what I mean by that is my mind and body isn’t somewhere in my business while I am teaching my children or cooking dinner. I am not thinking of the next quick content to share so I can gain more and give more of me. I actually have been able to sit still.
I naturally live slow paced, I homeschool my two children and we don’t fill our calendars every day. We moon gaze, watch birds, play in the sand, they bicker and argue like old women, and we watch the trees move through their seasons but somehow my energy body attached to the fastness of social media. Create more, share more, sell more, give more value and be the authority. For 6 years selling and giving value/teaching on social media I exhausted myself, I became more frustrated that things weren’t working the way I wanted them to. I thought my frustration was because of family life and that I just didn’t get enough time to do my work. I had it completely backwards, social media was the cause of my frustrations. It was my relationship to how I was showing up on socials and my personal life, something had to go… so fast food content creation and my coaching business of how I once knew it, went.
I will still teach and coach but it’s shifting how that looks and right now I am not rushing or forcing the answers. I know they’ll come, I can feel it in my bones.
Not going to lie though, it does feel hard because I have upcoming books that are being published and my mind is searching for where I am going to promote them. My body is saying just trust the process right now.
So, I am laying restfully on my bones, trusting and taking inspired action behind the scenes.
I am so excited for this next chapter though, it feels magickal.
I have been writing a book called Empath Witch that I will either have published or self publish, I know either way that I will get that book out there. It is the book I wished I had when I understood that I was highly intuitive, empathic and energy sensitive. I know how much the book will help someone on their journey too.
I also have just about finished writing a 100 page shadow work journal for sensitive creatives to move through the threads of their own shadows and show up for their dreams. I printed a draft copy yesterday and oh my goddess! I love it so much,it is so practical and magickal. It will help readers get clear on what is keeping them stuck and how to manifest a magickal life through their shadow.
This part of my life will be called mastery
Mastery of my craft
Mastery of my writing
Mastery of slow life
Mastery of my health
Mastery of my family
It will not be called perfection, mastery isn’t about perfection. For me mastery is another level of confidence, certainty, refinement and sometimes failing forward.
For me, a slow paced life doesn’t mean living in the wilderness 24/7, although that does sound nice. It means that I still have options around me, I can live in the city and still remain slow and present. That less is more and sometimes more is more, the duality of both worlds. Let me look at the huge city lights and then build sandcastles at the beach with my kids. I’ll have all the organic and ethical products, while also going to a rock concert.
Mastery in the duality of what we want.
Does it have to be this or that?
Or can it be all of it?
Slowly?
Intentionally?
Feeling the heartbeat of the earth?
Deeply connected to intuition?
Deeply connected to ourselves?
Write back to me and let me know what mastery means to you? I’d love to hear x