Instead of feeling refreshed or rested, they feel dulled out, numb, or more tired. What I ve been hearing increasingly from clients and other people lately is a yearning for rest, for renewal, for space. They hunger for simplicity, meaning, and genuineness. In conversation with the people I ve mentioned, and with others, we sometimes come to a moment of simple connection in which we acknowledge a strong longing not to be doing but instead just to be, and rest in the moment. Often when this occurs, there is a sense of stopping, of stillness.
Many times there is a welling up of tenderness, sadness, and even tears.
It seems that many of us have forgotten how to rest, how to refresh ourselves. We are like tape decks always set on play or, worse, fast forward. We have neglected the pause button. I can t say that I know why we are doing this. I suppose it has something to do with the fast pace of technology.