101 Pausing Does the word “pause” mean anything to you? With pausing I mean keeping still, a coming-to-a-stop and to reflect. I simply stop once in a while during my everyday life. I am then completely within myself and I review what I am doing at that moment. But I might also review who I actually am and that I only temporarily live as a human being here on Earth and above all, that I am a soul. That I am invisibly accompanied and that my guardian angel is near me. Yes, this is what I also think about at times. Or I very deliberately become quiet, switch of my mundane thoughts and simply immerse myself into the presence of a blossom, a tree or a cloud… I always feel that this pausing does me the world of good. It is free medicine. To breathe quietly and to arrest the chatter of my thoughts strengthens my soul and it even strengthens my health. I sometimes stop when I go for a stroll and look over a garden fence. I find that looking peacefully at flowers and plants is wonderful. Or my eyes go to the firmament and I allow the view, the colours, the clouds and the atmosphere to wash over me. And the Wiehengebirge lies so blue in the distance and I think it is wonderful to have healthy eyes to be able to see all of this! I often refuel with so much joy during a walk, something the people that see me could probably not even imagine when they think, “this old woman is standing there again and she just looks.” I have years of experience in regards to charging myself with joy and energy. But I can tell you something else too: To lean back and do nothing, to simply remain still, to ponder, to think and to feel, can be difficult, more difficult than some of the work we do - but it is a requirement in our humanness. Why is it difficult? Do we not like to be confronted by ourself, our thoughts and our feelings? When we have time to spare, our hands automatically reach for our mobile phones or a newspaper or the remote control of our television set. But we need to pause, well, that has been my experience. Without “pausing” we are just a leaf in the wind. When we become still and when we “go within”, we connect with our real self, with our soul. And we can smile at it, talk to it and give it courage… This is when we do something really worthwhile.
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