Pronounced "po-la, po-la" and is Swahili for ‘slow, slow.’I heard those words often while in Kenya as my Western psychological way of being showed up when events were either going array or not as fast as I thought they should. With a smile on his face, the elder of the village we stayed in would quietly say that phrase, and I would be reassured - after all I had no power to change the situation … in his infinite wisdom he was telling me to chill out.
Every so often that phrase wafts through my head. Like it did today as question two is still in the hopper. Yesterday I decided to take my response in a different direction than it began. Today I decided to reverse that and go back to my original approach. SHERYL!! What the heck are you thinking?!?
Ultimately that side trip had benefits.
Life is sculpted on a moment-to-moment basis. Every one of the thoughts we think, the words we speak, and the actions we take contributes to the complex quality and character of the universe’s unfolding. Every action taken affects the whole as greatly as every action not taken.
It is wise to be somewhat selective about how and where we are using our energy in order to keep ourselves from becoming scattered. The energy it takes to consolidate the scatteredness might be exhausting but how would we know there was discombobulation without reflection?
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