How to Live a Gentle Life, When You Don’t Know Where to Start
You’re a heart-guided woman who wants a life that isn’t solely focused on what you do. You want to enjoy and savor life. You want to align your schedule and energies with nature and with the things that bring you delight and joy. Yet you may wonder how to live a gentle life like this? Where do you start?
A gentle life is what you want, and that means starting gently. Living this way isn’t about making large shifts; it’s about taking gentle steps. Here are four things you can do to start to live a gentle life.
Allow Time for Delight and Joy
You already know what brings you delight and joy. A gentle life is about prioritizing these moments and experiences, allowing more of them into your schedule. Where and how can you allow yourself more time for joy and delight?
Choose to Live with the Seasons
Another way to begin living a gentle life - and align your schedule and energies with nature - is to live with the seasons. When we live in alignment with nature’s seasons we’re naturally living more gently, instead of pushing to do, do, do all year long. So, what is the current season? What is nature doing right now: blooming, flourishing, letting go, or resting? What gentle shifts can you make in your schedule to align with the energy of the current season?
Remember You’re not What You Do
A gentle life isn’t about what you do; it’s about remembering that you are already enough, regardless of what you do or don’t do. You are worthy and loveable - and always will be - simply because you exist. Part of living gently is reminding yourself of this truth and treating yourself (and your feelings and experiences) with gentleness. What simple things can you do to remind yourself of your innate worth and be more gentle with yourself?
See Where to Do Less
Living a gentle life is all about moving at a slower, gentler pace. This means doing less rather than doing more. Where in your life can you do less? What tasks can you let go of or allow yourself to do good enough?
Part of doing less is also allowing yourself time to rest. Are there moments/times during your day that you can let yourself rest? What sort of rest would feel gentle and nurturing to you?
Living a gentle life doesn’t require massive shifts. You only need to gently begin. Decide what feels doable and gentle right now, then take that step and then another. It’s okay if it takes some time, and you start and stop along the way. You are enough, and whatever gentle life you create is enough, too.
