What is slow living?
“Slow living is a mindset whereby you curate a more meaningful and conscious lifestyle that’s in line with what you value most in life.”
That’s freedom, freedom to choose to do the things you value most in life. Knowing your enough, using the right amount of time and effort to do things that matter most to you. It involves slowing down, doing less, having less, reflecting and being present.
Slow living is about living better, not faster.
What got me into slow living?
Meditation. Specifically Vipassana meditation.
It is to see things as they really are. To observe the reality of the moment. And all that requires me to go slow and live slow. The beauty and lightness of this lifestyle has become pervasive in every corner of my life and that’s how I realised, “Hey, I’ve starting LIVING.”
This section is further divided into these subcategories:
- Mindfulness — Seeing life in the mindfulness and slow living perspective
- Self-growth — Skills-in-progress, habits and anything to do with 1% growth every day!
- Mini-retirements — Travels, adventures and anything exciting!
Articles
Mindfulness
Everything starts within the mind — our beliefs, actions, emotions.
It’s about trusting the process, enjoying the process, no matter what we do.
- Letting my thoughts flow
- Action vs reaction: How to take more genuine actions
- 3 ways to incorporate mindfulness into your life
- How to be detached from your identity — 5 steps
- I’m 21 years old, now what?
Self-growth
When you stop learning, you start dying.
With the slow living concept, it’s just 1% growth every day.
It’s about sharing my progress in learning a new skill and forming habits.
Mini-retirements
Who says you need to retire to finally enjoy what you’ve earned?
How about incorporating it throughout your life?
It’s about taking mindful breaks throughout our lives, not just reserving it for the end (which we will never know when).