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    “Build pockets of stillness into your life. Meditate. Go for walks. Ride your bike going nowhere in particular. There is a creative purpose to daydreaming, even to boredom. The best ideas come to us when we stop actively trying to coax the muse into manifesting and let the fragments of experience float around our unconscious mind in order to click into new combinations. Without this essential stage of unconscious processing, the entire flow of the creative process is broken.” ~ Maria Popova, Brain Pickings

      “Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.” ~ Ray Bradbury

      Slow Dance

        Have you ever watched kids
        On a merry-go-round?

        Or listened to the rain
        Slapping on the ground?

        Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
        Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

        You better slow down.
        Don’t dance so fast.

        Time is short.
        The music won’t last.

        Do you run through each day
        On the fly?

        When you ask: How are you?
        Do you hear the reply?

        When the day is done,
        do you lie in your bed

        With the next hundred chores
        Running through your head?

        You’d better slow down.
        Don’t dance so fast.

        Time is short.
        The music won’t last.

        Ever told your child,
        We’ll do it tomorrow?

        And in your haste,
        Not see his sorrow?

        Ever lost touch,
        Let a good friendship die

        Cause you never had time
        To call and say, “Hi”?

        You’d better slow down.
        Don’t dance so fast.

        Time is short
        The music won’t last.

        When you run so fast to get somewhere
        You miss half the fun of getting there.

        When you worry and hurry through your day,
        It is like an unopened gift thrown away.

        Life is not a race.
        Do take it slower.

        Hear the music
        Before the song is over.

         

        ~ David L. Weatherford, Child Psychologist

          “Whenever you feel yourself growing anxious, breath in energy.  Breathe out negativity.  Breathe in relaxation.  Breathe out stress.” ~ Gary Mack, Mind Gym

          Are you in a hurry? …Why?

            “I’m in a hurry to get things done
            Oh I rush and rush until life’s no fun
            All I’ve really gotta do is live and die
            But I’m in a hurry and don’t know why…”

            ~ Roger Murrah and Randy VanWarme