Inner Sounds Academy Blog: Sound Baths + Science + Mysticism.
Mercury retrograde gets a
BAD REP.
The mystic misfit is blamed
for all sorts shenanigans.
One Mercury Rx,
my cell phone melted,
landline died,
and internet was out
for 3 whole days.
It was a complete tech black out
for 3 BLISSFUL days.
No one to text.
No one to call.
No one to email.
I was in HEAVEN.
This was my first MSD.
Mercurial Slow Down.
Mercurial Slow Downs
force us
to stop,
slow down,
and notice.
MSD ruthlessly
takes away things,
impedes, blocks, deletes,
and sends you down the rabbit hole.
These
are MSD
speedbumps.
Nothing too bad or detrimental,
but a CLEAR obstruction
that forces you to step off the gas.
Life is constantly
speeding us up.
Tech is minimizing
our attention span
and maximizing
our investment.
Long attention
is hard to find.
It is hard to step out of the blur
and into the details.
Two days ago, with the intent
to let off
some steam and destress,
I went on a noontime run.
One second I am
running and feeling vibrant.
The next, I am tumbling in slow motion,
onto the sidewalk.
Isn't it annoying
when you see the ground coming
and in your mind
you are like “ROLL like 007”
but in reality you skid to a clumsy stop
and don't want to look down
because…
you know
THIS feeling.
YOU.know.this.feeling.
The
dreaded
skinned knees
feeling.
As a kid who
continually fell off
roller skates, bikes,
or just plain old tripped,
there is a
strange nostalgia
to the skinned knee situation.
The process.
The pain.
Even the timing of the healing.
It is all so familiar.
Memories with smells
of bacteria and first aid cream
are floating the surface.
I am on Day 2.
Do you remember Day 2 of skinned knees?
Today and yesterday,
I was forced to rest
intermittently.
The things I should
be doing, like youtube videos and instagram,
are temporarily
put on hold.
I am in a temporary freeze zone.
A low grade pain
exists all day.
One knee is still bleeding.
The other is not but hurts more.
WTF?
It isn't bad or awful
but it is annoying and insistent.
As the Mercurial Slow Down demands,
I'm forced
to slow down
and rest.
Ive had other MSD's,
minor car accidents,
Technology glitches, etc.
and try to consider
these situations as
soft alarms.
A light hum
from the universe
to STOP and pay attention.
Rest.
Step out of the routines.
Watch bad tv series without feeling too bad about it.
Read a novel.
Get bored.
It is an unexpected
empty moment
of discovery.
what will I learn? Maybe nothing.
Maybe more than I could ever expect.
Idle moments are
where
things clic
and something
brand new may slide into view.
What about you?
Have you had a forced Mercurial Slow Down?
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