This week’s Pause™  cast is on the theme we are working together is pausing or more precisely learning to pause. We emphasize how we can attempt to start learning to engage in this practice when we are caught in stressful and reactive situations. (Which is when we need to Pause™ most!) We discuss how pausing is a necessary component to the healthy rhythm of our lives, but also a fundamental need in our Avodas Hashem. The presence we are seeking is always here and now. We just need to stop moving in order to feel it. We get caught in behaviors because we didn’t pause and come back to what we can call our soul state (the goal is soul) and respond from our higher state of being. Rather than tapping into our true selves, we ultimately behave in ways we regret. Taking regular intentional pauses throughout the day can mitigate these unskillful behaviors. We conclude with the STOP practice. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/09/27/443104073/trauma-workers-find-solace-in-a-pause-that-honors-life-after-a-death “Freedom is the capacity to pause in the face of stimuli from many directions at once and, in this pause, to throw one’s weight toward this response rather than that one.”-Rollo MayThe pause is especially important for the freedom of being, what I have called essential freedom. For it is in the pause that we experience the context out of which freedom comes. In the pause we wonder, reflect, sense awe, and conceive of eternity. The pause is when we open ourselves for the moment to the concepts of both freedom and destiny- Adam PhilipsThe WhatsApp status that’s there for your mental health Pause with us.Subscribe here: https://wa.me/message/JTOPZMPC7PZWD1