"I don't have time"
A beloved old friend called me this week. I answered and said “hiiiiiii, so great to hear your voice. I’m in the kitchen about to eat lunch, then jumping on a work call in 20 minutes. Talk to me while I eat?”
His response was “oh you sound busy, why don’t you call me back when you have time?”
And you know what I thought? “But I won’t have time.”
Sound familiar?
Our subjective experience of stress is linked to what we believe about time. As is our willingness to make space to practice Restorative Yoga.
My phone tells me that, yesterday, I spent two hours and three minutes on Instagram. Horrifying, but true. So I obviously have time for a 20 minute Savasana.
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Until next Sunday,
Lizzie
When therapy clients say to me 'I don't have time' the first thing I ask them is how much time do you spend on Facebook/Instagram/TikTok? 😃
Keep pressing this point Lizzy. It is astounding how much we fill our waking hours with the equivalent of day-time TV garbage, how much we miss because of all of our distractions. It is a bad habit. I just had this discussion with one of my students. Her reaction was so typical. "I'm afraid my life will be boring." Two things: 1) living one's life in reaction to fear, and 2) boring. I was amazed to hear this. It was a good lesson for this humble teacher to learn, and to press against it in my classes.