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I just saw this quote about being lazy and how it's
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hard work actually doing nothing.
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It was from Thich Nhat Hanh,
and it got me thinking.
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I actually despise the word lazy.
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I've been trying to remove it from my
vocabulary because it implies You're
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not worthy, or you're less than,
because you are not being productive,
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you are not creating something,
you're not achieving something, you're
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not checking something off a list.
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It's a word that's very capitalistic,
it's very cog in a machine, if
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we want to get philosophical.
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But then I thought to myself, and I
had this channeled vision and I'm
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curious what you think about it.
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So what we, at least in Western
culture, tend to call lazy is this idea
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of relaxation or being free flowing
in your day, not having a plan, not
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having a to do list, no shoulds.
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In fact, I think we say lazy because we
feel like we should be doing something
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else and we're choosing not to, so
it's this hidden, sneaky form of guilt
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and oftentimes people pleasing, right?
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You feel like you should be doing
this for someone or that for someone
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but instead you're choosing yourself.
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But a lot of the times it's a total
collapse because you've been so outta
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balance and giving, and not receiving
and not finding a flow in your life.
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So then I received this
image , maybe it's because I'm
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in front of the ocean waves here.
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Instead of laziness, can we just
call that coming back to your soul?
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Like being "soul-full".
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Coming back to who you really are.
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And then when you're doing things,
you're ebbing out into productivity.
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So it's going inward to your true
state of being, your spiritual
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being, having a human experience.
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Then when we're not in
that s We are "humaning".
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We are doing things in the physical world.
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We are going to our jobs, or playing
our roles, or mowing the lawn,
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making dinner, even pleasant things.
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Going to a concert, road trips,
traveling, whatever it may be.
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The stillness underneath the ocean, I
always talk about this with meditation,
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the stillness deep within the ocean-
that is our "soul- full" state.
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You're full of your soul energy.
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That is the more peaceful mind,
original state of relaxation
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that we would probably call lazy.
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That's a reframing of lazy.
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Then on the surface, as I'm staring at
them right now, you have ocean waves.
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, crashing into the shore, an expression
of the water below, doing their job,
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doing the action, crashing into the
shore, but then ebbing back and forth.
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Those are the day to day
things that we do in our lives.
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Those are the, unfortunately,
a lot of times the shoulds,
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but your to do list, your job,
things that you need to get done.
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Um, So instead of looking at
it as a lazy day, why don't
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you look at it as coming home?
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Essentially, if you are mindfully
ebbing and flowing between this
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connection to your true self and then
bringing a little bit of your true
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self with you in your daily activities
and letting the stillness, the true
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core ocean energy be what it needs to
be, like letting that rule your life.
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Then that is where you will
find balance and you won't need
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those days where you crash.
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I know that the new word is rotting, bed
rot, which think about the connotation
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and the energy behind the word rot.
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So negative.
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You're so depleted if
you're rotting, right?
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Whereas if you're constantly
trying to work on a balance between
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filling your cup or coming back to
alignment with your true self, your
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true energy, your Balanced Reiki.
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If you're ebbing between that and your
worldly activities, then you won't
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need to do that because you'll be well
balanced and the actions that you take
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will be less effortful and more aligned
and easeful because you're bringing
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a little bit of that soul energy
with you into your daily activities.
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I'm essentially explaining Reiki,
the process, like the self care of
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this, bringing that stillness, that
peacefulness into your life every day.
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So final thought, have some
curiosity around the word lazy.
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Have some curiosity and explore when
you feel like you need to be lazy.
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What was going on in your human life,
in , the waves of your life that led
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you to feel like you have to crash.
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Where can you bring some more
of that bottom of the ocean
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stillness to calm the waves.
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You want a calm ocean.
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Yes.
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There's always going to be storms,
but we want the majority of our
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time to be a calm ocean wave.
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We don't want our lives
to be so tumultuous.
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So I leave you with that.
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Erase lazy and welcome
in being "soul-full"!
