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4 thoughts on “Unleash Your Life Episode 19, Rest and Digest”
Relaxing and eating mindfully is so important and so neglected. It should be obvious but it is so easy to crowd out in our lives that are so stupidly busy. We have so much available to us both in the grocery stores and the fields and woods around us. Thanking God for our food was a ritual at every meal as I grew up and while I call it a ritual which may imply it was done more by habit than thinking about it, we did make that break in the day to focus on the meal. Not a bad habit. But hard to maintain the discipline to keep that practice going in my crazy adult life and I’ve done myself and family no favors by skipping that few seconds of quiet as we sat down together which has gotten increasingly difficult to even eat together. Kids do eat better when they are part of getting the food together but who has time to even fix a meal when you’re trying to get the garden planted between rain showers and YouTube and FaceBook? And trying to get all those wild greens gathered?
Crazy busy indeed! That’s the big challenge — and oddly, I’ve often found that by slowing down, I have more time. It’s weird, but when I’m in a rush, and I stop and take just two minutes (which can seem like an eternity!) to stop and breathe, suddenly time opens up. I guess for me that rushing often means a lot of displaced energy, which makes it feel like I have less time than I really do =)
“Never rush that which must be done quickly” because haste makes waste. That’s something I learned a long time ago when working as a Tool and Die Maker apprentice. The more you tried to rush a job, the more scrap you made.
My wife and I have transitioned to almost 100 % whole food. (We still cheat and have pizza on Friday nights though). This time of year is great. The garden is producing our salad greens and soon the other veggies will be starting to come in.
We both notice a difference in how we feel and our energy levels. I find just being out in the garden kind of meditative and stress reducing. (Except when the squash bugs destroy the crops)
Thanks for another good podcast.
Rob, it fills our hearts to know you and your wife are eating from your garden and partaking of almost 100% whole food! Woohooo!
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