Pausing Resets Your Life

Shared by Natalie, a Pause Crew Member

Have you ever felt like you were being judged?

I guess we have all felt this way at some point in our lives.

Well, just the other day I noticed something shift with someone I know

and I felt like I was being judged in that moment,

just a hint of judgment perhaps,

but it was there in something they said

(or did or something someone else told me).

I began experiencing a sense of uncertainty and concern

about myself and the relationship.

I got caught up in it for a moment and then realized,

I can Pause!

Even though I Paused,

I found myself going back to trying to figure things out,

so it was a moment-by-moment exercise

between Pausing and not Pausing.

Finally, while in a Pause,

I was reminded that I need not worry about

what another may think or say about me.

Regardless of what happens outside of me

I am always Safe, Healed, and Whole

I am grateful for this Wise Inner Helper.

I ask, “Is there another way to see this?” and “What will be truly helpful to myself and another, right now?”

I trust that there is a Peace and Knowing that is greater than what I am thinking,

yet still within me.

Pausing resets my life

so I can have Peace, right here, right now.

Everyone, including me, is worthy of a Pause.