Living The Pause

Over The Rainbow
be uplifted

Sharing by Mary

Your Inspired Mind knows what you are experiencing in
your daily life and wants to lift you up! You can open to the
Wisdom, Inspiration, and Peace within. All you have to do is
Pause.
Now, Receive.

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine I would be a co-founder of a
nonprofit educational organization, which began because, in my
stress, strife, and lack of purpose in this world, I was willing to Pause
and Receive my Higher Mind. This Bigger Mind, not our ego me-
character, showed me the way of true vision ~ how to perceive,
think, communicate, act, be still, and enter into silence. This Inner
Present LOVE taught me that we have the potential to “Be a Living
Expression of Inspiration in the world.” Help comes to each of us in
various ways: our wise thoughts, an inner awareness of Peace, a heart
space, perhaps awareness of a bodily sensation or way of moving, and
even through another person or an
unexpected encounter.

Your Helpful Self awaits you! Pause in 2026.

We here at Pause are immensely grateful for all the
ways Pause was shared & practiced in 2025.

BJC Healthcare ~ Raising St. Louis Mom’s Group

Kids & Teens Summer Camp

St. Louis University Nursing Professor Invites
Pause to share with Nursing Students

LifeBridge Partnership

ArchWell Health

Tornado Recovery with Shaka

Forest Park Community College Scholars

Youth Empowerment Rally

College Church Retreat

Shared PAUSE with:

Namaste Village in Mexico

Saprea, supporting women survivors of childhood abuse

Neighborhood Healing Network ~ National Crime Victims

Rosé Day Festival ~ Empowering Women and Girls

Better Family Life Resource Tailgate

Bridge the Gap ~ Juneteenth

My Life In a Bag ~ Children in Foster Care and Group Homes

Grateful for Natalie & Myron

Eileen Teaches Pause with Sound Bowls,
Rainsticks!

Natalie Shooting Hoops ~ Mary On The Trail

A Truly JOYFUL, HEALING, and DEEPLY
PEACEFUL 2026 to us all.

Pause For Nourishment

Sharing by Mary

Are you perhaps feeling undernourished? I am not checking in on your
eating leafy greens, hydration, and popping supplements as if they were miracle
pills that will give you boundless energy, heal emotional wounds, and
revive your spirit!

I am asking you,

“Deep on the inside, do you feel malnourished?”

“Is something missing?”

“Are you sensing a gaping hole that nothing seems to fill?”

“Or, maybe you feel blank inside, bored, or lonely?”

“Are you seeking and not finding?”

Would you consider taking in a nourishing pause?

PAUSE

Step back from external noise as much as you can

Pause from who you think you should be and what you should be doing

For this moment, these moments

Begin to notice even a morsel of inner quiet

Ask for Help with letting the stillness deliver nourishment to you

With “Deep Willingness, ” open to receiving and being nourished

Absorb this nourishment, replacing the feeling of being malnourished

Allow a sense of being reassured and sustained

Experiencing what True nourishment provides.

Feeling Trapped?

Sharing by Mary . . . You Have a Choice

As I lay awake last night, hoping to fall asleep sooner rather than
later, a quiet thought behind the chatter entered my mind: “Open your eyes
and look at the ceiling.” Well, that’s a heck of a way to fall asleep, I thought, with
my eyes open. Yet, I followed the direction I received in this pause.

In a pause, staring at the ceiling, I received further Wisdom. I was
shown how I have been listening to the thinking of my cubicle mind, the ego
mind ~ the part of the mind experiencing disconnection, guilt, anxiety, and fear.
AND, I have been TRUSTING this part of the mind that has proven itself to be
unhelpful, untrustworthy, has led me astray, and lives in the land of confusion
with its figuring, analyzing, and thinking.

Oh my, watch out, Dorothy!
LIONS, and TIGERS, and BEARS!

On the other hand, I have been listening, trusting, and following my
Inner Knowing, the Wisdom of Inspiration Within, and enjoying every moment.

Experiencing True Peace.

WOW! This was a breakthrough.
A stark contrast indeed.

This explains why I have been feeling trapped lately. Trying to force
myself to live two ways at once, if you will. Trying to adhere to what my ego mind
tells me I SHOULD DO to live up to the false expectations I have made up for
myself, and to not upset other people by not living up to my perceived
expectations that they have of me.

When we do this, we are left feeling:

Out of sorts
Angry
Impatient
Irritable
Confused
In a fog
Blame others for any number of things
Judgmental of self, and others
Being Stuck
Tired and Fatiqued
NO FUN

Eventually, the bow breaks, which I have experienced and don’t recommend to
anyone!

WANT A TRULY HELPFUL ALTERNATIVE?

Practice Pausing for Your Inner Wisdom

and

PRACTICE RECEIVING and then FOLLOWING.

It Works!

PEACE WILL FOLLOW.

The Choice Is Yours.

Suspicious of The Pause

Sharing by Mary

Yes, some people are SUSPICIOUS OF THE PAUSE! Their cubicle mind has
come up with all kinds of reasons to fear Practicing The Pause. I won’t give the
mind in the box, with its LONG LIST of EXCUSES, JUDGMENTS, and
MISPERCEPTIONS any air time here.

Bottom Line of Worry

Sharing by Mary

ARE YOU A WORRIER? I never thought of myself as a worrier. Yes, I see myself
as a thinker and analyzer, but not a worrier. Lately, I’ve felt like there’s been an energy
drain on my system, as if someone left the faucet on, but I couldn’t find the faucet to
stop the leak, so I made a decision to pause for an afternoon off.

Visiting a healthcare provider who focuses on healing at a deeper level, I inquired,
“What is going on?” She responded, “It’s your mind. It’s all in the mind. You worry! You
worry too much!”

She dimmed the lights and closed the door so I could rest quietly. Turning inward, I
called upon my Dear Friend, this Presence of Love within, to get in touch with what is
truly draining my energy. Sure enough, as clear as day, I saw how I have been
worrying about many things, especially for the last few months; feeling divided about
how I spend my time and energy, and what things I am pressuring myself to be my
priorities in daily life. Then, as I pause for Wisdom, I become aware that these are not
the priorities that LOVE is calling me to live by at all.

Furthermore, choices that I thought of as showing concern, taking responsibility, and
being conscientious, were WORRYING!!!

THE SOLUTION?

In a pause, I decided to slow down so that I can be more aware of WHAT IS GOING
ON IN MY MIND; the pace of my thoughts, what these thoughts are preaching to
me, how these thoughts are making me feel, and
Pause to call upon and listen to the Presence of LOVE in me INSTEAD ~
The LOVE that is beneath the mental chatter is sharing quite a different story.

Rather than a story of overwhelm and frustration, A TRUE STORY OF
THE PEACE and JOY that is fully available to all of us, shaping a new
way of seeing and living everyday life in the world.
Seeing the potential
that an ordinary day holds for extending Peace and Joy.
I am making choices in my mind with my everyday time.
What are they?

Let Peace Be With You

One Fine Day ~ A Practical Poem

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A Summer Camp of Wisdom

Shift Your Energy

Sharing by Mary

HAVE YOU EVER FELT NOT UP TO DOING SOMETHING? Feeling
listless, I was not up to teaching this day, yet within minutes of being with these kids
and sharing how WE CAN ALL CHOOSE to PRACTICE THE PAUSE on the spot, in
the moment, anywhere, and any time,
I was immediately rejuvenated.

Practicing The Pause Can Shift Our State of Mind and Physical
Energy, thus Shifting Our Thoughts, Words, Actions, and
OUR WHOLE STATE OF BEING.
Get to know Your Helpful Self to Be Truly Helpful.

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Kids Can STEP ASIDE: I choose to LISTEN TO MY HELPFUL SELF

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Kids Can Practice LET MY HELPFUL SELF GUIDE: I Choose to
FOLLOW MY HELPFUL SELF who leads me to be SAFE, CALM, KIND,
and HELPFUL.

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Tornado Triggers A Pause

Sharing by Mary

As I sprinted down the stairs and through the dining room, I heard
the windows rattling, and there it was, a sound like a train
roaring across our terrace. For the next week, I was pulled away from
my habitual daily routine. It was a forced PAUSE, a STEPPING BACK from
plans, a STEPPING ASIDE allowing moments to unfold without my figuring so I
could receive Inspiration, and LETTING INSPIRATION GUIDE so I could follow.

The result:

My mind emptied, becoming a clean slate upon which
Complete Peace and Total Joy took up residence.
I had never paused like this before.
Better than a vacation!

The destruction in the neighborhood, with 100-year-old trees
uprooted, while the terrace furniture remained untouched
and unmoved, as if enjoying a solitary picnic, imprinted upon
me the fleeting inconsistency of this world and the uncertain
moments we face every day. Since childhood, I recognized that there
is Something More than this physical plane. Yet, this Something More is fully
present wherever I am, whatever I am doing, and whomever I am with ~
because it is Within!

THE RESET:

– Recognizing the possibility of Something More.

– Practicing the 4 Steps of The Pause to increase awareness of This Something More.

– Receive This Peace that abounds in this awareness.

– Give This Peace to others.

Have you ever stopped? Even for a day, a half day? Not to pursue
nonroutine plans or do something special that you also planned, but to DO
NOTHING, NOTHING YOU PLANNED ANYWAY. Simply be.

Eating breakfast at a local cafe, strolling to the coffee shop next door
to grab an iced espresso,
and hunkering down in my car – rolling the windows down, opening the moon
roof to the sun’s rays –
I Paused like I have never paused before.

Embracing that my mind had gone blank, and
and hoping it would stay that way.

Questions to ponder

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– Will I truly receive this gift, letting it influence my daily choices
and routine, or will I toss it aside to return to the status quo woe?

– Will you pause for an hour or two, maybe a day, without a plan
and truly receive the gifts being held out within you?

The 4 Steps of Pause Can Shift The Way You
Live Your Daily Life