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This is Marie T. Russell, publisher of InnerSelf.com wishing you a day of living at a slower pace (today and every day).

COMMENT BY MARIE: We live in a rush rush world, and we never seem to have enough time. But, of course everyone has exactly 24 hours in a day... Time does not play favorites. But we must learn to use our time for our well-being, not just as part of the rat race spinning round and round.

InnerSelf's Daily Inspiration

January 17-18-19, 2025


The focus for today (and the weekend) is:

I deliberately choose to live at a slower pace.

Today's inspiration was written by Suzanne E. Court:

The sense of urgency that humans experience is very rarely existential. It is more likely to be habitual and conforming to the lie that we must achieve as much as possible, as quickly as possible.

The haste we bring to situations not only colors our experience, but it also determines the quality of experience. Unfortunately, millions of humans feel dictated to by time and live at such a fast pace that we convince ourselves there’s not enough time to truly live.

It’s how we choose to experience time that makes it feel either eternal or scarce. As human life speeds up, some people deliberately choose a slower pace of living, not necessarily by deciding to move to a small town or live rurally (you can still be very busy in the country!), but simply by living at a slower pace.

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Today's inspiration was adapted from the InnerSelf.com article:

How to Hurry Up and Slow Down

by Suzanne E. Court.

Read the complete article here.

The focus for today (and the weekend): I deliberately choose to live at a slower pace.

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RELATED BOOK: Soul Connection with Horses

Soul Connection with Horses: Healing the Mind and Awakening the Spirit through Equine Assisted Practices
by Suzanne E. Court.

Soul Connection with Horses introduces concepts of awakening and spaciousness as understood in many spiritual traditions and demonstrates that horses effectively model awakening for humans. Through this approach, horses help re-establish natural bonds and intuitive ways of knowing that have become obscured by conditioned thought and ineffective individual narratives.

Horses show us that we can trust our intuition and learn how to live from the soul while making meaningful connection with ourselves, other people, animals and the natural environment. By considering how horses experience the world through their senses, how they process emotion and how they express their needs, we see that they live through the same social, psychological and spiritual paradigms as humans. This book invites us to walk in the hooves of the horse, to experience the horses’ worldview and to access our own soulful wisdom.

Click here for more info and/or to order this paperback book. Also available as a Kindle edition.

About the Author

photo of: Suzanne Court, PhDSuzanne Court, PhD, is a qualified equine assisted therapist and mental health practitioner with over 30 years' horse experience and ten years’ experience working professionally with horses in the mental healing and spiritual space. She teaches group and individual courses and gives lectures on Equine Assisted Therapy. She comes from a musical and academic background, having been a performing classical guitarist and a professor of music. She has published widely in historical musicology, and this book is her first regarding horses. Her website is www.earthhorse.co.nz