Visualize Slowing Down
Sit comfortably on your meditation cushion or chair. Close your eyes and breathe in and out for a few minutes. After getting centered, bring a gentle awareness to one of the aspects of your life that has seemed a bit too harried. Perhaps it is your morning routine. Perhaps it is dinnertime. Or maybe it is the early part of your workday.
Pick the part of your life that you would most like to slow down a notch, and visualize what this might look like. Sense what it feels like.
Open your eyes and take out a notebook and pen. Write down both what you visualized and what it felt like. See if you can identify three minor changes in this aspect of your life that will bring you greater calmness. Write them down.
— Thomas Bien, Beverly Bien, Finding the Center Within