Every Day Rituals for a Slower Life
RITUALS
Single – Tasking
Focus on one thing at a time instead of multi-tasking. Not only is single-tasking the opposite of multi-tasking (obviously), it’s also a chance to practice complete mindfulness on the task at hand. It is the antidote 
to life, where we are taught that to be effective, productive and worthwhile, we must multi-task.
It’s not about doing less. The ritual of single-tasking involves:
Choosing one task you regularly do during your day.
Focusing solely on that task
Immersing yourself wholly and completely in experiencing it.
It helps you find the simple beauty and everyday joy in mindfully completing one task.
Unplugging
The Power of the Off Switch
Disconnection from the online world allows us to reconnect fully with the world around us – our kids, our partner, our family, our friends, our work, our environment, our imagination.
The Ritual of Unplugging
This Ritual involves taking time every day to unplug from the constantly connected world. It means unplugging from your laptop, email, smartphone, tv.
Emptying your mind
Brain Dumping
Brain dumping is a mind-mapping or journaling exercise where you simply dump the contents of your brain onto 
paper. By doing this, you release your pent-up frustrations, problems, worries and to-do’s. Getting it out on paper means it no longer occupies space in the mind, leaving you to think more clearly.
It’s probably best to do this ritual either first thing in the morning, or last thing in the evening.
Gratitude
Find Time
Find a small window of time during your day – 5 minutes is enough.
Write it down
On a scrap of paper, make a list of five things you are grateful for today.
Flip it
If you find it difficult to articulate those good things, try flipping your frustrations, anger or resentments. Ask yourself: what about this situation is positive
Can’t get a moment to yourself? Your kids love you and want to be with you – how beautiful.
Constantly interrupted at work? People need you or respect your insights – take pride in that.
Tired of cooking every night? You’re providing for your family – there are so many things in that one idea to be grateful for.
RHYTHMS
Rhythm is the beat, tempo, sequence and the order of your day.
Routine is rigid and inflexible and makes you feel that a set sequence of events needs to happen precisely or the exercise is a failure.
Rhythm is a much friendlier notion. It speaks of order and understanding and flexibility and movement and fluidity.
Morning Rhythm
Having a rhythm to your mornings means you know what you need to do and how it needs to unfold. It takes the head work out of your morning, so even if you’re not an energetic person first thing, you will still be productive. A positive morning rhythm: Works for you
Gives you enough time to get things done
Takes into account other people’s needs.
Has some wiggle room.
Works for you.
And once established, you will feel:
calmer
more clear-headed
more prepared
less likely to lose your temper or chastise yourself
more inclined to eat breakfast
more likely to take a brief moment to practice mindfulness.
EXCERCISE
Self -Reflection
Identify your needs and wants
Decide what to include
Estimate the time needed
Formalize it
Evening Rhythm
Having already established why rhythm makes more sense than routine, we can dive straight into why you should take the time to establish and event rhythm.
The benefits of an evening rhythm are:
You have more flexibility to your evening, meaning you can make allowances easily for days that don’t fit the normal flow of events.
You have the benefit of knowing what needs to be done, and everyone else in the home benefits from the familiarity too.
You can settle gently into the evening – it reduces stress significantly when everyone understands what the evening brings.
You can prepare yourself for rest.
You can sleep calmly, know you’re prepared for the next day – your home is tidy, you know what needs to happen in the morning: you are ready
NOTICING
So much of simple living is in the art of noticing. Stopping long enough to attend to the beauties – both large and tiny – that surround us.
To pay attention is to give of yourself. There is a cost involved in paying attention. But there is also a cost involved in not paying attention, and that cost is far steeper. Pay attention to:
– What you do and how it feels.
What you consume
The things you need to do.
How you feel as you do them.
The spaces in between
Your thoughts and feelings
Beauty
Your time and Energy.
Where you spend it.
Pay attention to what the world is trying to tell you
GO ENJOY LIFE!
Jodie xxx
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