レイチェル・ブレイセンのインスタグラム(yoga_girl) - 7月13日 08時46分

The most exciting thing that happened today? We harvested a spinach leaf as big as little moons head😌🌱⁣
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Today was a day full of beautiful nothings. The kind of day I look forward to all week, but when it finally arrives, I have to make an effort to let it be what it is. I’ve realized - I have a truly hard time with boredom. As soon as things get slow, or quiet, or a space opens up in between activities I start to feel a little uneasy. I never noticed this about myself until just now. I know I’m good at moving fast and getting things done and work work work but I also always say myself as a person who enjoys down time. Turns out, I want to enjoy down time. I haven’t figured out how to get there yet😅😂⁣
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Here is an example: as long as there is some sort of doing involved, I can relax. We bake - all the time. Every week I have a little project around the house that I’m completing. I’m constantly cleaning up. Organizing. Fixing. So on days like today, when I’ve just finished watering the garden and moved right into arts and crafts with Lea and then start bottling the new batch of kombucha and cleaned the kitchen after lunch and suddenly, a moment of nothing opens up...? You know one of those moments - all the doing is done and you get to actually think the thought; “what now?” - that moment? It’s the moment I have spent years longing for. Space, peace, stillness. And that is the exact moment my mind goes from relaxed to stress. How do I fill this time? What do we do now? What if I can’t find something purposeful to busy myself with? ⁣
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It’s interesting, catching myself in those moments. To watch my mind - to notice my thinking. To not propel into action but to sit with the discomfort. To allow for nothing. For boredom. Yes, that’s it. Boredom! I’m practicing boredom. Because truth is, I’ve spent a lifetime of excitement and movement and drama and intensity and crisis and I have no idea how to exist in boredom. How to just be. ⁣
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This child and this leaf of spinach together perfectly represent all of my life lessons. The playfulness and the patience. The joy and the growth. The being... and the letting it all be. ⁣
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I’m so grateful for this life.

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