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I'm Bored!
I'm Bored!
Really how does that feel?
When was the last time you just sat? Really sat, bored even. Not scrolling, not checking, not planning. Not even thinking about what comes next. Just quietly doing absolutely nothing..
I was walking my dog the other morning, mind doing it’s normal hopping from one thought to the next, when I looked up and saw a gentleman just simply sitting on a bench, peacefully, taking in the world. Not reading, not talking, not looking at a phone, just sitting... This got me thinking, how rare this actually is, to see someone so fully present, so unapologetically still, just being.
Our days are built to move, to check, to achieve, to fix, to constantly do..do..do.. And yet, in the very act of stopping, something quiet extraordinary happens…
Our bodies are constantly talking to us, but we are always so busy to just pause and listen. It always starts with a quiet whisper, a gentle nudge, then a constant nagging, before it screams…STOP.
And that’s what we’ve quietly forgotten… how to just stop, to pause, to just be in a would that is for ever moving at such a speed, it’s hard to keep up.
In our Touch Yoga™ practice, this is the pause… the moment between, where nothing is asked of you. No doing, no fixing. Just noticing. So often, we move straight from one thing to the next, even within our practice. We complete the pose, and before the body has had time to speak, we are already preparing for what comes next. But it’s in the pause… that something begins to shift. The breath softens. The body reorganises, a subtle change you may have otherwise missed and the quiet inner wisdom of the body begins to do what it does best… restore you back to a harmonious state.
I’ll often say in class, “take a moment now to pause…” and it can feel so simple, almost insignificant. But this moment is where the beauty and magic of our practice take a place. Not as something to achieve, or get right, but as a simple returning back home to self.
Because in a world that is constantly asking you to move, to think, to respond… choosing to pause, to just be still and yes it can feel uncomfortable at first, is a quiet act of courage. It asks you to be with yourself, just as you are, without all the distractions.
And maybe, just maybe… that gentleman on the bench isn’t doing nothing at all. Maybe he’s practising something we’ve forgotten… to just pause, to just be…
Try this Touch Yoga™ Minutes Audio Practice
In this short audio practice we softly hold the thumb, this signals to the Spleen energy, to release excessive worrying and overthinking. This gentle connection acts as a sensory anchor, grounding your energy and allowing the body to settle.