Creating Space To Take Care Of Yourself

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Many of us struggle to give ourselves time and space that isn’t taken up with work, family, friends, television, music, anything to distract us from silence.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But reconsidering your normal, and living with your values and the impact you want to create, takes time. It requires that we learn how to get comfortable with stillness, and to care for ourselves.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">India and Erica discuss how they make space to reconsider their normal and to care for themselves, and share their thoughts on handling their schedules, getting comfortable being by themselves, and honoring your nervous system when things are tough.</span></p> <p><strong>In this discussion:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How India and Erica approach taking real time off for rest</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Why doing nothing and staying in the present with ourselves is so hard</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">What the culture gets wrong about our nervous systems</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">How to build in time to live your values</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Ready to dive deeper?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In</span> <a href= "http://www.pauseontheplay.com/community"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">The Pause on the Play® Community</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">, members have on-demand access to Ixchel Lunar’s workshop called “Decolonizing Time: Centering the R.E.S.T. Recipe.”</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ixchel shares how our concept of time has been colonized, stolen, commodified, and outsourced, and how we can liberate our flow and create conditions to partner with time rather than getting caught in the hustle.</span></p> <p><span style="f