Michael Meade on “Slowing Downwards”

Writes Michael Meade . . .

“Slow” and “down” are modes of the soul; they are connective modes, ways of keeping connected to oneself and to one’s environment. “Slowing downwards” refers to more than simply moving slowly, it means growing down towards the roots of one’s being. Instead of outward growth and upward climb, life at times must turn inward and downward in order to grow in other ways. There is a shift to the vertical down that re-turns us to root memories, root metaphors, and timeless things that shape our lives from within. Slowing downwards creates opportunities to dwell more deeply in one’s life, for the home we are looking for in this world is within us all along. The lost home that we are seeking is ourselves; it is the story we carry within our soul.

For more of Michael Meade at The Wild Reed, see:
• Soul: The Connecting Force in Life
• The Way of Love and Healing
• Where Soul Would Have Us Go

See also the previous posts:
• Awakening the Wild Soul
• Trust and Surender: “The Soul’s Foundation”
• Thomas Moore on the “Ageless Soul”
• The Soul’s Beloved
• Brigit Anna McNeill on Hearing the Wild and Natural Call to Go Inwards
• To Dream, to Feel, to Listen
• Honoring the Dark While Celebrating the Light
• Thomas Moore on the Circling of Nature as the Best Way to Find Our Substance
• “Radical Returnings” – Mayday 2016
• Balancing the Fire
• A Sacred Pause
• Aligning With the Living Light
• Mystical Participation
• Returning the Mind to God
• The Beauty and Challenge of Being Present in the Moment
• Being the Light
• The Mysticism of Trees
• Mistwalking
• Holy Encounters Where Two Worlds Meet
• The Prayer Tree
• Cosmic Connection