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What if we learn to soften?
To breathe
To sink
Gently
Into
The present moment?
Into the truth
Of how we’re feeling?
What if instead of
Pushing and forcing,
We simply
Allow ourselves
To pause
Listen
And flow with what
Feels right instead?
What if we learn
To slow down
And breathe
To stop putting too many outsized,
Unrealistic
Expectations upon ourselves?
What if the deepest parts of us learned this
So deeply
That we didn’t have to
Keep
Consciously
Reminding ourselves of it?
What if we just went with what feels right
Without
Or trying to explain away
Or around
What we know to be true for us?
What if we soften and just allow
What is
To be,
Without trying to make it
Become something
That it isn’t?
Even if what we want
we know
Can be
And will be
At some other point
In time?
What if we can let ourselves
Just flow with
How we’re feeling?
With what feels true to us?
With what is happening
Right here
Right now
In this breath
In this moment?
What if we could want
and allow?
And desire
And be?
And plan
And settle—
Into the now?
What if there was enough space
For all of it?
To breathe in the present
While
Moving toward the future?
To appreciate what’s happening
While
It’s actually happening?
While also knowing
We may want more,
Or something different?
To allow all of our feelings
About all of it?
What if we could move more deeply
Into this moment?
Into the present?
Into the now?
What if we could learn to
Breathe
To be
To soften
To settle
Into this moment
Into this breath
Into the now?
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AUTHOR: LISA ERICKSON
IMAGE: KISSENILLUSTRATED/INSTAGRAM
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