//: A Concept To Redefine Your Life

//: The pause to consider a concept and challenge what it means in your life.

I started posting these two slashes before quotes and concepts on social media. At first, I was drawn to the aesthetic, but over time the practice grew into a concept of its own. The lines aren’t the substance, but the frame for it. The empty space between that gets often overlooked.

It’s the time to consider. The mental space given to thought in a specific direction. Contemplation of a topic or concept. Does it fit into your life? Do you use it? Discard it? You won’t know until you give it time.

This symbol is an invitation to consider the ideas it precedes.

Space is something that needs to be protected nowadays. It’s highly sought after, and for good reason, it’s where your energy resides. But it can only be protected if it’s acknowledged, understood and appreciated. It harnesses the power of the mind and focuses it with purity of thought and inspired action. There’s nothing more powerful than that.

When you come across a piece of information, pause //. Take some time to chew on it. Question it. See how it sits with you. Time stands still in this space, it’s a grey area you can mould your life around. This is the in-between that defies logic and the place where creativity is born.

The title of this post, in containing this symbol, is asking you to stop and consider the information presented within it. It’s guiding you away from mindlessness into conscious contemplation of the concepts contained here. Think about an idea before you integrate it. As your body absorbs food and you become what you eat, you become the information you consume. Information changes you.

Massive life change never comes from blind acceptance or purposeless distraction.

Be present with your life experience in its entirety. Feel it, allow it in, even when it hurts. Live the experience, don’t waste the time you have here fighting how it makes you feel. Time is the most vital commodity you have, and there’s a deceptive world around you that will teach you how to squander it. Spend your time in the silence instead, the peace and calm that anchors you, the serenity that exists beneath every action. Below every emotion. Between moments.

Meditate.

Spend time with nature.

Go for a drive.

Get lost in good music.

Make art.

Consider the miracle that life actually is and how much you have to offer this world while you’re here. It truly is magnificent when you engage it. It’s in this space you can finally build an understanding of your power and what it means to be alive. Use this space to understand what’s most important to you. Add only to your life that which supports it.

What do you want to experience before you die?

If anything threatens to undermine that, drop a pause before you trust it. Stop to consider whether or not you need it in your life.

This life is hectic. It’s fast-paced, loud and delivers an unavoidable bombardment of superfluous, often disingenuous, information. The only way to counter that is to go inside yourself and take a moment to consider your options between the black and white of a defined world.

/ … Spend more time here … /

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