Reframing 'Lazy': Embrace 'Soul-Full' Living

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I just saw this quote about being lazy and how it's

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hard work actually doing nothing.

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It was from Thich Nhat Hanh,

and it got me thinking.

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I actually despise the word lazy.

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I've been trying to remove it from my

vocabulary because it implies You're

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not worthy, or you're less than,

because you are not being productive,

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you are not creating something,

you're not achieving something, you're

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not checking something off a list.

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It's a word that's very capitalistic,

it's very cog in a machine, if

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we want to get philosophical.

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But then I thought to myself, and I

had this channeled vision and I'm

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curious what you think about it.

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So what we, at least in Western

culture, tend to call lazy is this idea

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of relaxation or being free flowing

in your day, not having a plan, not

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having a to do list, no shoulds.

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In fact, I think we say lazy because we

feel like we should be doing something

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else and we're choosing not to, so

it's this hidden, sneaky form of guilt

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and oftentimes people pleasing, right?

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You feel like you should be doing

this for someone or that for someone

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but instead you're choosing yourself.

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But a lot of the times it's a total

collapse because you've been so outta

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balance and giving, and not receiving

and not finding a flow in your life.

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So then I received this

image , maybe it's because I'm

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in front of the ocean waves here.

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Instead of laziness, can we just

call that coming back to your soul?

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Like being "soul-full".

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Coming back to who you really are.

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And then when you're doing things,

you're ebbing out into productivity.

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So it's going inward to your true

state of being, your spiritual

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being, having a human experience.

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Then when we're not in

that s We are "humaning".

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We are doing things in the physical world.

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We are going to our jobs, or playing

our roles, or mowing the lawn,

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making dinner, even pleasant things.

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Going to a concert, road trips,

traveling, whatever it may be.

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The stillness underneath the ocean, I

always talk about this with meditation,

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the stillness deep within the ocean-

that is our "soul- full" state.

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You're full of your soul energy.

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That is the more peaceful mind,

original state of relaxation

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that we would probably call lazy.

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That's a reframing of lazy.

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Then on the surface, as I'm staring at

them right now, you have ocean waves.

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, crashing into the shore, an expression

of the water below, doing their job,

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doing the action, crashing into the

shore, but then ebbing back and forth.

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Those are the day to day

things that we do in our lives.

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Those are the, unfortunately,

a lot of times the shoulds,

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but your to do list, your job,

things that you need to get done.

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Um, So instead of looking at

it as a lazy day, why don't

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you look at it as coming home?

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Essentially, if you are mindfully

ebbing and flowing between this

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connection to your true self and then

bringing a little bit of your true

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self with you in your daily activities

and letting the stillness, the true

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core ocean energy be what it needs to

be, like letting that rule your life.

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Then that is where you will

find balance and you won't need

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those days where you crash.

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I know that the new word is rotting, bed

rot, which think about the connotation

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and the energy behind the word rot.

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So negative.

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You're so depleted if

you're rotting, right?

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Whereas if you're constantly

trying to work on a balance between

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filling your cup or coming back to

alignment with your true self, your

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true energy, your Balanced Reiki.

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If you're ebbing between that and your

worldly activities, then you won't

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need to do that because you'll be well

balanced and the actions that you take

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will be less effortful and more aligned

and easeful because you're bringing

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a little bit of that soul energy

with you into your daily activities.

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I'm essentially explaining Reiki,

the process, like the self care of

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this, bringing that stillness, that

peacefulness into your life every day.

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So final thought, have some

curiosity around the word lazy.

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Have some curiosity and explore when

you feel like you need to be lazy.

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What was going on in your human life,

in , the waves of your life that led

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you to feel like you have to crash.

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Where can you bring some more

of that bottom of the ocean

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stillness to calm the waves.

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You want a calm ocean.

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Yes.

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There's always going to be storms,

but we want the majority of our

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time to be a calm ocean wave.

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We don't want our lives

to be so tumultuous.

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So I leave you with that.

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Erase lazy and welcome

in being "soul-full"!