Our lives, like the raised beds in our gardens, need fallow time. Without it, we feed the pests that chew on our life, like repeat planting in the same bed, season after season. Fallow time feeds our souls.
Like setting aside a garden bed for a fallow season, we must plan for time in the routines of our lives to be fallow. Fallow time is time away from daily tasks that make up our lives. During fallow time, turn off your phone.
Fallow time need not mean going on holiday. Fallow time can be walking a labyrinth. Sitting in green space and soaking up the colour. Watching the birds and listening to the sound of the wind in the leaves. Stretching and breathing in a quiet space. While you’re lying on the floor and feeling the muscles in your back unknot, listen to the beat of your emotional heart. Don’t let the seeming urgency of everything you must do, intrude. Be mindful at least once, every day.
Fallow time will let you bloom.
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