How speed = stress
The Canadian journalist Carl Honore-author of the best-selling book In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed speaks about the benefits of slow living.
Honore claims the linear time paradigm; “time is money” is being replaced by the “slow movement” model. Slow living produces more pleasure and better health. The slow city movement is frosting connecting over speed. He makes a good point about how holistic medicine is inherently slow. The Italians now expanded the slow movement into sex.
As I mentioned before, slow work is producing higher production. Multi-tasking is not productive. From the workplace to the home Honore claims slowness is growing.
Stress reduction needs to integrate slowness for our kids and us. Honore speaks about how kids are lacking spark and passion because of being pushed with homework and extracurricular activities. Fortunately, we are putting the brakes on our speed. We are making conscious choice to have a richer, whole life through traveling through it with less speed.
There are places where speed is good. Having faster Internet connections certainly increases production and reduces stress. The unconscious conditioning around speed that we created in our lives is not good. Being mindful of where speed servers us and where slowing down servers us will enrich our lives. As my mother use to say to me, what is the hurry?
