I was privileged to be with a group of retreatents recently for three days. Most of them are people who find their days full and overflowing with different responsibilities. During this time, I watched them rest, reflect and revise their lives. The very fact that they have had time to turn inward and dwell on their life themes and concerns provided them with an experience of renewal and refreshment. The institution they belong to offers this opportunity to their faculty regularly.
Personal time outs is an experience we tend to replace with holidays. As families the holidays are occasions when we unwind, explore nature and go for expedition, have different experience of sports, or entertainment and make the times more family centred.
The personal time outs are more person centred occasions when we move into the inner canvas of our lives to listen to our soul, feel the joys and hurts, experience healing and affirmation and find a vision for our onward person journey of integrative living. As humans, our lives have an internal and external dimension. We so live that the internal gets crowed by the external. The time outs create space to bring to life the inner self and allow our lives to find its anchor and fullness to live our lives publicly in the theatre of our activities.
Those who take regular time outs are those who are in the pilot seat of their lives and continue their Godward journey!
M.C.Mathew(text and photo)
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