This is a ritual for a day of having to (or choosing to) be excessively online. You know what I mean. Zoom meeting after email after Zoom after Facetime after scrolling incessantly through social media.
Ask yourself: where is my heart? Softly. Gently. Rhythmically. Where are my emotions after all of this digital noise?
Get as comfortable as you can/no how. Allowing minutes to pass and for time to consider.
Ask yourself: where does my heart want to be? The people. The (new) job. The city. The relationship. Where does your heart desire to linger? They don’t all have to be overtly positive.
And when you hear the “sound of the genuine,” thanks Howard Thurman, what your deep responses are…consider what this means for how you end your day. Consider if you need to call that person you’ve been missing. Consider that protest that you’ve been wanting to go to but you’ve been too scared. For that tough conversation that you need to have at work. It can be difficult, but enacting rituals for the heart after a day hunched over the computer can be helpful for resetting.
Robert Monson