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Hi there,
My name is Niamh and I have a BSc in Nursing Science. I make videos on simple, natural healthy living. I hope you enjoy!
#slowliving #sustainableliving
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I'm 67 now and wheelchair bound. That automatically slows you down. The bones dont move like they used too. My 4 children and their wives and grandkids do the things I cant manage alone. I basically cook, do dishes, visit, weed the raised bed gardens brush the dogs and donkeys, kiss my alpacas and come up with fun brilliant ideas 😁 life is blessed and filled with love. My entertainment is watching life on my organic farm.....endless shenanigans between the humans and animals !
Ah Sharon, lovely to hear from you! Sure what more do you need in life other than kissing alpacas! 😁 so special. You have so much love and life around you. 💕
That sounds like heaven to me. I always wanted to live on a farm. Mostly a horse farm but with other animals too. But that is a lot of work daily. Good for you for managing while in a wheelchair.
God bless you
@@FairylandCottage YES ! Truly blessed and grateful. Because of covid the grandchildren blow kisses but my grown boys still kiss Momma. and STANLEY the ALPACA loves kisses LOL
@@sharonstuebi8181,My grandkids would love waking up to those animals.
I start my day with candles lit, nice music, I live alone, so I set my table nicely for breakfast, napkins, nice dishes, take my time eating, be in the moment, and that starts me up for a slow meditative day of housework and gardening, also have bad arthritis so had to get use to being slower, and admit my limitations and embraced them, love your channel, many blessings x
How lovely when I don't have to rush to work in the morning I would love to do that. Arthritis sucks doesn't it so painful and stiff.
My x-husband used to act like I was just there to take care of him. Whenever i tried to care for myself, I told him just what you said - that i have to take care of myself first before I can take care of anyone else. He said I was just being selfish! One of many reasons we're not married anymore! Much happier now!
Ah well done for leaving him. Good choice.
I am glad you took care of yourself
@@jessicacanfield5408 Thanks! It was tough but I got out of that marriage 15 years ago.
well done I must say
I have a home on a lake. It's a small cottage also but not quite as old as Fairland Cottage. Every day I open my blinds and look out over the water. Sometimes there are Canada geese swimming around and other times swans. It grounds me for the day. I am a retired nurse and am grateful to have this time for myself now. I visit grandchildren but always come home to my little cottage. Thank you for sharing your life with us and reminding us all to enjoy the simple things.
I’ve learned that if we don’t take time to slow down, something will inevitably force us to. Better to go with the flow. Thanks for another awesome video 😊
So true! Sometimes it takes an illness to slow us down, learning that lesson the hard way
Something inevitably does force us to slow down, when we need too. That's a very wise statement indeed!
Thanks, y’all! Wishing you well 🙏🏻
That’s absolutely true, so wise
truueee 💖💖
My mind automatically slows down whenever I start watching any of your videos
Thank youu 😊
Ah that is nice to hear. 😊
Yes, this is true for me as well.
I’m not a natural relaxer either. I work at it, and I have to remind myself that life is not a race. I try to meditate daily as a reset for the upcoming day.
I love your idea of softness to oneself and to others. Thank you.
To slow down and be kind to myself I stopped writing lengthy “To Do Lists”. I used to have a daily list that even “Wonder Woman” couldn’t accomplish. Now, when I write in my bullet journal every morning I have “TPFTD” at the top... “Top Priority For The Day”. By doing this, I require myself to accomplish that task, and other major tasks can wait for another day. Pace is important. Thank-you for this great video today Naimh. Such a treat on Sunday morning!
Ah yes Mary! Even Wonder Woman knows only a certain amount of things can get done. I like what you do now with your bullet journal.
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Working in my vegetable garden slows down my day or reading a book or watching nice blogs like yours 😊🐦🐢🐢
These are such important aspects of life. Wish more people think about these days.
Sometimes it helps me slow down when I drink some tea listen to soft (often sad) music and just cry a little bit. Then I take a good nap and recharge :)
Oh lovely
Daily practices such as meditation and soft music slow me down. I also make it a habit to try and notice all the beauty in the moment, that is the best way to find living each second to its fullest!
Wonderful daily practices. X
It's important to understand that our mental health is just as critical as our bodily health. The stress we expose our minds to will affect our whole body and vice versa. As beings who suffer from conscious awareness, being in a harmonious mental state will make the world itself more balanced. As humans we get along better if our minds are healthy.
So so true x
So true, mental health is so easily neglected. Media chooses to focus on external appearances and so physical exercise is often emphasized way more. I think it is as important to focus on the inside and be balanced.
Observing my dog's laziness helps me slow down.
I love that! :-)
That’s great! I love watching my chickens in the garden 😍🐓🐓
Same! Except with my cat. My dog (border collie) is very energetic.
I love the relax of my cats ... 😺
Niamh,you have touched upon the reality and the grave disease of 21st century...Go fast, always be in the fast lane, just be on the go, go, go Be busy, Just Hustle...It is important for us to slow down. Experience life in a slow way, savor things slowly, breathe slow and don't think about the next task, immerse in the thing at hand even if it is just soaking up in the sun. Let's slow down on our own, we don't need a corona to slow us down.
Hello! Your voice is so calming..I sometimes put your videos on in the morning just to calm my mind & it naturally slows down my thoughts. Thank you for your kind spirit and lovely content!
I loved the advice with noticing when being hard/soft! Too many people are unnecessary hard on themselves or lash out at others under stress (for both: me included) - so that was a wonderful reminder. As always, beautiful video!
This video slowed me down 💚 Thank you for the beautiful advices
Physically slowing down is best for me.
I naturally walk fast, do things fast.
So make myself walk slowly or do things slowly will slow my mind with it.
They I can focus my attention to the moment better.
I need more practice but slowly ever so slowly I am getting there🙏
One of my favorite quotes, which I have on my kitchen windowsill, and from children's book author/illustrator, Tasha Tudor, who lived to the beat of her own drum: "I don't believe in hurry." I think you'd enjoy learning more about her life - you have so much the same philosophy. She passed in 2008 at the age of 92, but lived on a piece of property in Vermont with beautiful gardens, a cat, a parrot, milked her own goats, and raised Doves, and loved Corgis. With as full and "busy" as her life was, she didn't believe in hurry and accomplished so much in her lifetime. P.S. I enjoyed your e-book immensely!
I can add one more way to slow down ... is listening to your voice 💕 it’s so relaxing.
Your cardigan is lovely! Is it your mum’s work too?
I'm learning to slow down, by watching the content of videos, made by people like you! Thank you!
Hehe thanks!
Pulling that weed at 2:37 and the roots staying intact was very satisfying. 😁
Yes!!!!
In John Eldridge’s book “Get Your Life Back” he initiates “the one-minute pause”; a break in the morning the afternoon the evening or several times a day and night- where you just stop. breathe Meditate on the moment. Be grateful be quiet commune. Our church did this book as a Bible study and the feedback from my church family is so sweet. How each one of us has incorporated this “pause” into our days and how it has given us perspective about ourselves is so varied and interesting. But also so similar. The world is so different if you actually take time to look at it!
So lovely Cathy. I’ll look that book up! Thanks for sharing x
You are a real woman gardening in such a pretty white sweater and not having mud all over it!! (We need the story of that sweater. I am a knitter and something like that must have a story if not on it’s origin, maybe on the role it has played in your life?). I just purchased the ebook and so look forward to a relaxing Sunday afternoon reading. I don’t relax well at all. The best ways I have found are to sit outside (I live in Texas so there are too many days spent indoors), take a walk enjoying the outside again, or practicing this meditation of closing my eyes and then going through my sense: what do I smell, feel, taste, hears, and then either with open or closed eyes, what do see. It takes a while if you really sink into it but you start to enjoy life in this moment and realize what may be nagging at you and can let it go. Thank you for all of your content!
I love how relaxing your videos are :) :) also a good cup of tea or chai latte is one of my favourite ways along with taking a nature walk :) :)
How lovely :-) nature heals immediately.
One thing that helps me slow down is mindfully softly or out loud thank the object I am cleaning, ie: chandelier above my table. Thank you for the light you give!
Even writing this comment, I decided to think, and take my time writing instead of rushing through it. Same for any activity. For me, it takes a lot of mindfulness to slow down. I force myself to really see the place I am visiting and really feel my pup’s fur as I pet her. Thanks for sharing this soothing video.
I slow down by not doing all my cleaning and housework in one day. Being in the cleaning business for the last 35 years I kind of expected myself to get it all done in one day but now at the age of 53 I really can’t it just causes stress. I do it a little bit every day and that keeps it up, if something doesn’t get done then so be it,it’s not the end of the world life is far too short.
Thank you for your E book,I’ve read through it and absolutely love it I will be using a lot of your ideas.
Congratulations and have a lovely week 🇬🇧😄
Suzanne
I unfortunately didn't slow down in 2011 and I had a mental break and was diagnosed with a mental illness. I always put everyone before me and I didn't take time for myself. I realized if I don't take care of me I can't take of everyone else. I meditate go to therapy but I take time to relax now either by watching RUclips or reading a book or crafting. Thank you for the great videos
I’m glad you got the lesson before it was too late. You are an inspiration to all around you, whether they know it or not.
I gave up on perfection. It's amazing when you settle for okay how freeing it is and also how much you appreciate simple things you didnt have the time for. Tea and the newspaper while the children play .....bliss. On a day off work I like to get back into bed and enjoy my breakfast and coffee slowly.
"Not everything has to get done today." So true, so helpful to remember. Thanks for this relaxing video to help slow us down.
One of the best things I did was get off Facebook. I noticed a dramatic change in my whole being. I started seeing I was trying to hang onto people I didn’t know well. Trying to impress them with jokes and memes...stories about different things. My daughter died in a car accident almost ten years ago. She was seventeen and my only child. It has been very quiet in my house. I shut down. Slowly. Methodically, I was letting go to die. But, I stopped Facebook. I stopped watching the news. I stopped watching people on RUclips who are political. I was very much into politics.
I know what’s getting ready to happen with this world. But, I cannot change anything about the outside world. I can change my little part of my world.
Your videos calm me and remind me to slow down. I was fortunate to retire at 54 from a job that was very busy. This next chapter of my life is different. I knit myself sweaters which is a slow process. My husband and I have a glass of wine before dinner and either sit out in nature or enjoy it for our cozy home. Thank you from all of us!
The first way I slow down is by watching one of your videos. It prepares me for whatever I am up against for the day. It’s sort of like my meditation, because I can’t be disciplined enough to sit down and meditate. But when I watch one of your videos, I imagine myself as a bird or bug in Fairyland Cottage, and watch what you do. Just the overall picture of what you do and what you say is enough to set me in place. Then when I’m finished with the video, I take your words with me and use them throughout the day. You can’t imagine how much more at peace I am.
It seems like "slow living" is the sequel to "minimalistic living". I'm trying to do both!
I really love how my favorite kind of day is described as ‘soft’ in Ireland. And I loved hearing you describing it as a way of being as well. I am a quiet person by nature and I think soft describes me too. I live alone in a small house by the sea, slow is my way of life, now that all my children are grown and gone. But when I go out into the world it can feel out of my quiet & slow comfort zone. I found that bringing a book is a comfort. Just holding it or having one on the seat of my car or in my bike basket. And knitting too, something small like a sock in progress to bring along, is calming knowing it’s with me.
Same with me, I always have a book with me. Sometimes I focus on trees, collect a chestnut, hold it in my pocket- that helps to be centrated. All the best
I wind down by doing homework with the kids, cooking for my family, eating, do dishes and some chores, just what i want to do on that time. Then it's me time ❤️. Sometimes i read a book, do a hobby or i pamper myself with a foot, face or hand care. Sometimes i just sit on the sofa listening to some music. Or i watch calm blogs such as yours. I play with the two cats we have running around here. And i go for an evening walk. It's sooooo soothing tot go out and see the world slow down; people go in their houses, dogs are being walked out, see less cars driving around, lights on on dark days, etc. And before sleeping i meditate. ❤️
I had to disconnect from quarrelsome and negative people. I just don't let myself get in silly disputes that do nobody any good! Life is so short and precious and we feel this even more at this time of the year with winter again in the wing. I am spending as much time as possible outside in the crisp, clear autumn weather. I play classical music while I gently put my yard plants to bed for the winter. It seems almost sacred.
How lovely you gave yourself that boundary. Nature is the most nourishing of all.
My 11 yo son and I have taken to watching your videos in the morning while we have tea. We are learning to slow down by thinking about what is really important to us.
Ah that warms my heart!! Such a lovely bonding time you have first thing. Big hello to your son!
You are so right about taking time for yourself. I work full time, look after and walk my animals, walk my mother’s dog and do her chores as she is just getting over cancer. I am very OCD and just your voice alone helps me to take a step back and breath. Thank you for that ❤️
You've always make my life more relaxing ☺️👍🙏 Thanks again and again
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Just spent the morning listening to your audio book and am filled with so much peace and inspiration! Absolutely loved it!!
Ah i love it! Thanks so much for purchasing. I’m delighted you’re enjoying x
I absolutely love your videos. Thank you for providing so much calm, wisdom & inspiration. I always feel better after a few minutes in your world. Love & light to you 💖
Ah thanks Lucy. Love and light to you too 💕💕💕
Slowing down while watching you clean fanatically.
A Fairyland Cottage video a day keeps the stress away
Beautiful video Niamh. I also try to slow down. When I am rushing about I can forget things or make mistakes. It takes less time to just slow down and do it right the first time. Slow deep breaths help at that point too.
I’ve noticed that over the years your beautiful voice has even become softer and more soothing than ever. I think I’ll take that advice and watch when my voice gets higher in pitch or more anxious. I enjoyed your book. Thank you for writing it.
I find all your videos very inspiring. After a busy/ stressful work day, I restore the balance by turning on one of your videos-- even while I am still "busy" doing something, like cooking or cleaning. I find they instantly fill my home (and mind!) with positive energy. Since many years I too practice sustainable living...but it wasn't exactly "slow living" while raising my sons/home schooling /working part-time. I always had massive to-do-lists...Now, I work 40+ hours per week from home... and am so glad I have come across your videos..they really inspired me to focus on what's important, and do everything with love - even if it takes longer. Now I enjoy all my tasks. Thank you. Best wishes from Canada
It's really hard for me to slow down lately, especially since my job demands extra hours and a lot of pressure. These are such great tips. I find watching your videos, how theyre made and your voice, help me slow down alot too...thanks :)
I slow down when I go for a walk with my dog , just enjoying nature together every day .
Breathing always helps it brings u back to the moment and then I try myself to slow down but honestly Your videos taught me to slow down 💖appreciating little things and being present in the moment.
Can we expect more DIYs🙆😀
Ah thanks my friend. 💕
More DIYs? Who knows! It’s a great idea. X
@@FairylandCottage ❤thank you.
I am like you . I always try to finish all things at one go. I help myself slow down by doing one thing at a time. Enjoy Autumn 🍂 and soon the lovely winter.
what I learned from you and others made me think that slowing down is doing things with consciousness, doing things intentionally and being more mindful instead of rushing through life, trying to get everything done. It helps me, besides all the things you mentioned above, to focus on my movements, focus on one task at a time, being grateful (even for "little" things like food, warmth...) and more appreciative of the good things, even though it might look, that there isn't much to be thankful for. Going out in nature, using all my senses helps me to have more holistic experiences which then I can than experience at home / at work as well because I become more aware of things. Sometimes slowing down means the pace, but sometimes it's enough to be more mindful even if your moving fast. And also doing things, I want to do (not only have to!), which gives me the feeling of control over my own life, being creative, doing things that come from within, even if they are rather humble and by far not as professional as your DIYs ... and focussing more on the task itself rather then only the result...
waiting for sunlight to do laundry...in Thailand, we just have this rain for almost 2 weeks. I just say ok I will do laundry tomorrow instead. :)
It is amazing to me that I can reply to you in Thailand ! And imagine your world-waiting for sunlight to do laundry. It is raining in Montana too and the colored leaves are falling in blankets in the yards and streets. We are a world apart and yet connected. God bless you.
Your so right in slowing down. I eas forever rushing thinking if the next thing to be done. Now i prioritise and take time for me, whether its a cuppa and most importantly not staying on social media too long.
I love your videos, they really make me think about and give me a visual for the life I want to lead! My dogs help me slow down and get me into the woods everyday. I find myself wanting to drive slowly but that's hard these days. It does feel like most people are in a rush. I take plenty of time for myself and try to prioritize myself when I can! ❤
Dogs are great for getting exercise!
I too drive slowly. Let the cars pass you out! Haha!
Having handwork projects to work on draws me to a quiet corner and necessitates calm. Right now it’s a needlepoint stocking for a grandbabe that draws me in.
I used to multitask a lot, which got things done over time but seemed a little chaotic. I know there’s some things to multitask, like when doing laundry, but I felt so much more Zen and could actually meditate while doing things when I started doing one task at a time from start to finish.
Beautiful and thoughtful video as always. Being away from work during the pandemic for some considerable time and having the time to consider what I wanted from life made me realise that I could not go back to the frantic and all-consuming work life that I had and that I must slow down at the age of 63 after 45 years of full time work. I am now working for half the hours and feel immensely better for it. Financially things will be very tight as we are far from wealthy but what I am gaining is worth so much more and I am not interested in a lot of possessions. My relationship with my husband is improved because I am much less stressed and am generslly more relaxed and have time to "smell the roses". We are living simply, enjoying daily walks and I spread out chores during the week rather than dreading doing them all over a precious weekend and I actually enjoy work a lot more now when I am there. Life is short and I am certainly glad that I made the decision to slow down and work less. Your videos are a joy every Sunday. Much love and blessings to you 💗
I am 63 and recovering from my 4th hip surgery which has and will decrease my mobility significantly. I am finding how to do things differently that I can no longer access such as my beloved gardens on our property. Your videos have been a calming and encouraging path to mapping out how I am going to keep doing things. Sharon Stuebi's post is a testament to enjoying life no matter what physical limitations we are dealing with. Thank you for your lovely channel.
I have a hard time with things not staying like I left them. I can clean my home but it gets dirty again. I can eat, but I have to eat again. Sleep, kindness, work. It's all again, again, again. It stresses me out and unmotivates me. I give up on cleaning and live in a space I hate because I hate repeating myself.
What do you recommend? I watch you and love how you think and act, but whenever I do it it doesn't feel right
Encore merci pour cette merveilleuse vidéo! Moi, pour ralentir, j'essaie d'être plus attentive aux énergies ou aux ambiances des lieux que je traverse. J'essaie de prendre quelques instants pour écouter mes 5 sens. Et je remarque tant de choses auxquelles je n'aurais pas fait attention avant! Comme beaucoup de personnes qui ont laissé un commentaire, regarder vos vidéos m'aide à ralentir et à être positive! Merci! Vous êtes mon modèle!
Madam,
it's me, the boring one who always wants French subtitles! I am writing to you here, under this video, because I do not know where to reach you personally. I have good news: I have found how to activate subtitles in almost all languages in the world! I had a hard time understanding it because on some Korean videos (I love Hamimommy, or Nyangsoop), for example, it is done much more automatically. You just have to click several times on "subtitles": the first time, RUclips only offers English, but by starting again, the list of all the available languages appears on the screen!
In the meantime, I have greatly improved my English while watching you! My motivation to understand you was great because your videos are awesome! So much so that I continue to watch them in English! It's surreal! Thank you for all the good you do me!
Good luck with the containment (I heard that Ireland was confined again)! This promises us still great videos in perspective!
Marie (Belgium)
(Thanks to the Google translator!)
Soft... This is the most important word here. Actually, it's what I'm doing in my life now. Don't know how to explain it because my English is not very good but if I say "being soft" with myself, with things and people, with life, that's the best way to have a peaceful day 😊.
Thank you Niamh 🙏💐
This was really helpful. I've been consciously slowing down this week after several weeks of being super busy. I was feeling guilty about slowing down, but this helps me understand that I made the best choice. Thank you!
My life has completely changed since the pandemic started. It has taught me to spend time in my garden, watch my plants grow, slow down when cleaning my home & bless it as I clean & savor the meals I'm preparing for my family. I use to be so frazzled but I now see how these are the important things in life. I also picked up my camera & tried to capture these ordinary moments that I now treasure as EXTRAORDINARY. Pure Joy - GIOIA xo thank you for sharing your thoughts.
Lovely video 🙌 I like to do a couple or more chores on a daily basis distribute throughout the week to slow down and not clean all in one go that's doable and slows me down ♥️
This is the video I needed today. I’m exhausted, but it’s not physical. I can stop worrying and thinking. It’s not the to do list only, it’s thinking about that list all they long. Thanks for all your videos and for this one specially.
I've been forced to slow down this week bc I'm in the hospital with pneumonia. Your videos are comforting as well as educational. I feel like I've found a new calming no drama friend. I look forward to watching more.
Take time to enjoy the natural beauty in my surroundings helps me to stop and enjoy the day. Doing a hobby and produce something with quality will definitely slow down the day. God bless.
I’ve begun taking periodic breaks. I’ll do some chores either in the house or in the yard, and then break for lunch or coffee. I used to work for hours on end, not wanting to stop. I think I enjoy life more now. Instead of trying to get as much done as possible, I enjoy the satisfaction of a job completed and goals reached without becoming obsessive about it.
Yesterday in the evening I purchased your e-book and audiobook and I really love it so far 💛
And today there is a new video - what a wonderful weekend!
I am a very calm person but I get stressed easily. I walk very fast but in other acitivities I‘m slow.
I love to walk my dogs to slow down. I walk with them twice a day in nature and watch them, it‘s lovely.
Gardening, cooking and cleaning help me to slow down as well as long as I take my time and don’t do too much. Sometimes sitting in the garden with a cup of tea and watching the pollinators or my dogs playing is the best part of the day.
One can only observe true beauty when one intentionally slows down her pace in a busy life.
On a different note, I absolutely love your sweater. Did you knit it yourself?
It's amazing how nature plants itself into the tiniest crevice, even on on porch stairs. I find things growing in some really odd places. It reminds one that if nature finds a way, so can we.
So so true!
Thank you for reminding me of the need to slow down. I am bad at this, although getting better at not being hard on myself. My job is desk bound and I am working from home these days. But this allows me to think about using seasonal veg and not depending on the supermarket for lunch items as I used to when based in an office. Also, as I sit in my kitchen now, I love listening to the ticking wall clock. Cosy and comforting. Autumn is a wonderful time of year. 🍃🍂
I love your comment about cultivating SOFTNESS. If you're stressed and have been ignoring your own needs, it can harden you with a sort of resentment that affects your actions, words and tone. Consciously softening is a good remedy.
Such a lovely video. I don't know why, but I slow down when I'm cooking or baking, it feels like I can't focus my attention anywhere else otherwise I will burn the food or forget to add something. To me feels like a meditation. Also reading by a window, meditating outside, gardening, fixing things and lying down with my cats of course. Cats are a very good example of how to relax and enjoy calm.
Now I'm also adding to my slow down routine writing, either poems or verses, or a tiny story. Sometimes also writing about what I'm grateful for. It takes some time to do it so it's really great.
Thanks for your videos, I find them always so relaxing and inspiring.
Pls share your garden tour
Garden tour on the channel!
This video is a confirmation of what my intuition has been telling me for the past month. For me to be to kind to myself more and to not put pressure on myself on being productive and doing a lot of things. Sometimes, life's distractions can take us out of focus on the things that really matter. But our health and well-being are those things that must be at the top of our priority list. Thank you for this message! Greetings from the Philippines 🇵🇭
Yes without health we can’t do all the rest! Nice you have that now rather than when it is too late! :-)
HOPE FULLY every ones enjoying a nice slow weekend.My husband and I where talking about it yesterday .slowing down not worried if we get everthing done in one day? .It's very hard for me. I always have rushed to get all my house cleaning or yard work done cooking meals. Lol but now i enjoy our time doing stuff together to get it done. I remind my self to slow down . When i watch my cat just relaxing she plays a little then naps then snuggle with us . Or when time is passing me by to quickly . Like always💚 THANKYOU for shareing.
You are so wise, I agree with you and I need to take time to practice what you’re going. I am so tired and not sleeping well . Thanks again.
So sorry you are not sleeping well. Go easy on yourself. We’re all doing the best we can. Xxx
Loved this video! Some of the things I do....
1 - Start my morning, outside (weather permitting), with a cup of coffee and nature just taking it all in.
2 - I have stepped back into my creativity with art and writing. This literally "forces" me to slow down, take my time, and remember things do not need to be perfect.
3 - I stopped putting deadlines on myself, but allowed small steps towards goals to come forward. Taking those in stride.
4 - I started following my heart and inner child again - remembering things aren't always as serious as I make them out to be. In fact, life can be a lot of fun and taking time to remember to just play in 99.9% of everything I do helps.
I love the meal comparison for things that slow us down! I always struggle with taking time because I think things like "you journaled yesterday you don't need to do it again today" But I'll try to remind me of your comparison next time thank you for that
Lovely video, Niamh. Recently, I've stopped making "to do" lists and instead began writing "accomplishment" lists. Let me explain. Rather than facing a long, daunting list of things I need to do (many of which I often don't get around to simply because the list is unrealistic and then I feel like I've failed) rather I begin doing the tasks I feel the energy and inclination to do in the moment and once I've completed a task, I write it down and check if off! This motivates me to complete another task so I can add that to the list. It slows me down in that this approach respects my varying rhythm of mood and energy levels from one day to the next. Plus, there's no incomplete tasks on the list, just a record of how far I got today! xo Enza
this is an AMAZING idea! honestly to-do lists stress me out unnecessarily and can make me feel like a failure often so this is something i'm going to start implementing daily. thank you for the concept senza! ps: i recently subscribed to your channel as i enjoy your slow living videos ;)
@@nicolegenerale Thank you, Nicole! I'm delighted this has inspired you - it really is life-changing! Grateful you've subscribed, happy to have you! Stay tuned for more. Cheers!
Hello! Thank you so much! I can slow down every time I see your videos, this is very true. I'm trying, each and every day, understand how I can slow down, trying understand how I can do it to myself. I must say something, excuse me but I can't avoid, your cardigan is so so beautiful. A big hug, see you next sunday!
So lovely that to hang clothes out...so good for the environment. You do more in a day than I do ! I love this ...my first visit ❤️❤️
Hi! I enjoy your vídeos so much! At the moment I 'm focused onda slowing down. You 're being a great help! Thanks! !!
Ah good to hear! Xxx
I was really thinking today about how to slow down as you do ...and from the morning till afternoon I am just watching your videos, thank you so so much I don't know how to express feeling in words ....tones of love from India
Ah my friend it’s wonderful to hear that. Thank you. Your appreciation is felt.
@@FairylandCottage I am glad
This is absolutely amazing! When you answered me on Instagram I just felt there's so many people searching a way to slow down, and this is really big. So I started a channel and I really think you'll like it 🧝🏻♀️🧚🏼♀️❤
Beautiful. Just found you via your apple cider vinegar video. I slow down by taken a nap each day, petting my dog, sitting with my chickens, or spending time with my Mom, who lives with me. Looking forward to catching up on your videos. Thank you.
Thank you for all of your lovely videos.I really enjoy your thoughts of the day! I am very grateful. xx
Observing the changing of weather slows me down..and I want to tell you that, the thoughts you put through this video really slows down many people’s life and it is so much important..
Ah thank you my dear for saying. X
If I find myself being clumsy I take this as a sign that I'm not really paying attention. In order to pay attention, I slow down my emotions and try not to cram so many to-dos in so short a time. I consider my health and state of mind more important than getting things done. I will eventually "get to it". I don't consider it a "failure" if I don't do it right away.
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I love how educative and informative her videos are , couple the fact they are calming and peaceful. This videos are everything 👏
I started doing daily journal at night before bedtime. It relaxes me so much. I just put out all thoughs & feelings from the day. Writting is very healing when you don't want to talk about your deepest feelings with anyone... you just write! It helps me a lot. Also, cleaning... this days i just trow a lot of things from my room that i didin't use and did a general cleaning. It felt so so good. Also burning candles, using my crystals and i love my morning coffee. I love your videos 💜
Amazing advice. I've been a "rusher" all my life. Very exhausting and as the saying goes, haste makes waste. It's a hard behavioral pattern to break. I'm going to practice your advice. Thank you for sharing your nuggets of wisdom.
Slowing down is often a struggle for me too. I have been a working woman and mother for most of my adult life and that sometimes adds to that feeling of needing to hurry everything. I have learned several of the things you have-that not everything is going to get done, and to put myself first, especially if I'm not feeling so well as happened today. When hormones get the better of me, and a migraine sets in, allowing myself the space to retreat, lie down, drink some nice warm tea, be in a dark and quiet room, and asking others to take care of meal prep and cooking if what is needed for me to then recover by day's end. (I am feeling quite well now, so I did all the right things to take care of myself!) I really liked your question, "Where am I being hard and where am I being soft?" I have asked myself a similar question: "What can I say 'yes' to that is usually a 'no' for me?" This question started when I had young children and I found myself saying 'no" more than I liked. I realized that everything was much more joyful when I decided that I could say 'yes' to more things-playdates, going to the park instead of going straight home to start those loads of laundry, or simply putting down the work to watch the clouds go by and breathe a bit more deeply. I often feel that our goal orientation in society brings unhealthy time tables and expectations and that we can have moments of rebellion by stopping the "progress" and allowing the beauty of the world to bathe us in love and light. Then we are truly breathing and in better harmony with each other and with the world. The thing is, it doesn't take that long to do these things, we just have to remember to do them.
Such thought provoking words. Thank you for taking the time to share Nicole. Xxx
I slow down by listening to you. You inspire me to slow down and look after me. Thank you for that. I will have to wait till next month to get your book but I am looking forward to it. Have the best day ever.
Ah thanks Janet!
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