Mostly Dead Means Slightly Alive
SloDo Prompt • Sustainable Systems
Has it been a crazy week? Feeling a bit overwhelmed and discombobulated?
Here, have a SloDo.1
SloDos are an invitation to mindful communication, an opportunity to open channels of awareness within ourselves, between each other, and with the divine. Grab your favorite note-taking tools, pop in some background music (or not!), and take a few minutes to turn aside from all the busy noise and listen for the clear signal. Here’s this week’s prompt.2
Make a list of the responsibilities, obligations, relationships that comprise your schedule. Notice what feels urgent and what feels important—and what consistently gets delayed.
Pause to acknowledge all that you are carrying.
Notice how you’re showing up to what’s going on in your life.
Acknowledge what brings joy and pleasure to your life, and what brings dread or resentment.
Ask yourself, “What feels alive here? What feels like it’s barely hanging on?”
What did you find most helpful in this reflection? Most challenging?
Let this prompt invite you to notice how much you’re doing and carrying in your daily life, and to also express what that makes you think and feel. These are signals to track, nothing more or less.
Let’s be hopeful, creative, and wise—together.
Shalom,
SLODO noun THING (📢 slow-dough): a reminder to slow down, pay attention, and practice mindful communication.
Being formed into the person we want to become asks that we get to know ourselves, and allow ourselves to be truly known by others. SloDos provide a short break to help you gain some perspective on interactions and conversations from the last few days.
Also: I work from within the Christian tradition, and understand the divine as the trinity of father, son, and spirit. That said, I know we all have different ways of understanding the divine, so if you wish to insert [other] when I use that phrase, please feel free to do so.
