the rhythm of urgency
the rhythm of urgency 🥁
Hi Friends! How ARE you? Truly! How is your breath? Do your shoulders feel tense? What is the temperature of your heart today? Can you unknit your eyebrows from the centre of your face?
I have been feeling the need to DO STUFF. When an email needs to be sent, i gotta send it NOW. if a text shows up, i reply right away. My to-do list can't be prioritized because everything is marked #1 or with a star ✨ next to it. It's too much. I struggle with urgency and prioritizing without a pandemic but the feelings of uncertainty worsen my feelings of "GOTTA GO RIGHT NOW". Urgency is my default instead of intention. And it doesn't feel great.
It's easy to feel overwhelmed and busy, and it requires forethought to organize myself. I see urgency in my social media consumption, in my advocacy – share this fundraiser, give money to this place. I see urgency in consumerism too, I was trying to buy a self help book last week but none of my local book sellers had it in stock. I wrestled with myself for a whole 7 minutes between ordering it off of Amazon and placing a special order at my local book shop for it to come in in 10 days. I had to catch myself mid wrestle and step back. What if instead of this book not being available RIGHT AWAY, wasn't a major crisis that needed to fixed? If I step back and maybe give myself the opportunity to practise patience, and put my morals into play (like giving my money to my local book store in stead of Bezos' hellscape). I can buy this self help book and also help myself from the jittering anxiety of being alive in the world. Wow!
What does the world look like when we don't respond in 30 seconds? What does waiting and planning feel like? What do you notice when you step back from urgency and into intention?
Also while writing this email my friend Dr Emily Bennet wrote this smart post about urgency. Which makes me feel less alone in my jittering. Ru Paul says there is no such thing as coincidence. Coincidence is you being in rhythm with the universe. So maybe you're in this jittering anxious rhythm with me right now. Maybe the rhythm of you and your home feels softer or louder than the one I have described. Either way, I am happy to be in the flow of the universe with you all
I am working on Non-Urgency in my creative process to. A place I am excited to share intentional work with you all is the Okay Shoe Portal opening September 1st. A space for creative mind melding, digital artist in residence, conversations, community and connection hosted on Patreon. We can all share what we know and what I know together as one, at our own paces.
I love you all
xx
phoebe
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