Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you.
âAnne Lamott
One day when we were vacationing on Cape Cod I came across a young woman on a bridge wearing a red dress. The sun was setting. The light was extraordinary. I zoomed in with my iPhone and clicked.
Then I noticed that the young woman didnât seem to be enjoying the same light that I was. She seemed lost instead in the light beaming out of her smartphone. There was beauty everywhere, and I felt a pang of longing for her to turn away from her device and enjoy the show that I was seeing all around her.
Have you ever considered how much beauty and magic we might be missing out on because of the time we spend glued to our electronic devices?
What would happen if you took a mini-break from checking your emails, texts, messages, and social media threads for the rest of the week?
Gulp.
Iâm not asking you to actually do this, mind youâjust asking you to consider the ideaâŠ
and feel the gulp.
And if it moves you, you can finish reading this lesson and unplug for a while. Who knows? You may just find yourself experiencing a little spacious magic, like what Waylon Lewis, founder of Elephant Journal, shares here:
When we break away from the busyness and superficial activity of technology-drunk daily life . . . time slows, the world becomes more vivid, and we fall in love with our life, again.
Seems like a pretty good tradeoff to me. 1
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Slowing Down Challenge
What youâve just read comes from âUnplug,â Chapter 7 in A Year for You â the book we are using to cultivate the first of 5 steps to spaciousness: slowing down.
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Week 7 â Unplug
