How My Life Has Changed After I Quit The Rat Race
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 มิ.ย. 2024
- Slow Living is not just a trend.
If you're tired of being constantly busy and overwhelmed, here are practical ways to be slow down life each day.
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Chapters:
00:00 why slow living
00:56 romanticised trend
02:57 not always easy
03:46 dealing with FOMO
05:11 intention not aesthetic
How To Slow Down Life: What Slow Living Really Means
The slow living concept is a fast growing trend.
Videos published in 2020 with slow living in the title gained 4x more views that year than in 2019.
Google Trends reported a 111% increase in searches on slow living and minimalism since 2022.
The data did not surprise me as many people are tired of being the worker bees in a capitalist environment. This is why videos revolving around homesteading, slow lifestyle, and spending time in nature appeal to us.
But the way slow living is marketed and commodified in social media makes it seem elusive and exclusive only to those who can afford it.
We can’t all live in an aesthetically-pleasing countryside cottage in the woods and do hobby projects as much as we please, as shown in many slow living vlogs, reels and posts.
These things require lots of free time and money, which are not easy for those with a 40 to 60 hour work week and making an average income.
Not everyone has the luxury to move out of their current living situation but I'm sure many people are keen to adopt slow and intentional habits
So maybe instead of romanticizing and focusing on the aesthetics, the realistic ways of living slowly no matter where you are need to be emphasized more.
It can be uncomfortable
In a society that glorifies hustle, an obsession with work doesn't seem like a problem that needs to be fixed.
This was my way of thinking until workaholism started to negatively impact my health and relationships. So I knew I had to swing towards the opposite direction.
However, slowing down was so intimidating and uncomfortable for my overstimulated brain.
If you're like me who are used to being constantly engaged in something, stopping is harder than staying busy. The dopamine withdrawal is real.
Then, there’s FOMO or the fear of missing out. I felt I was behind in life when I compared myself with others living luxuriously as a result of all the hustling or climbing up the corporate ladder or both.
Yet, I believe we can all benefit from slowing down. Research and studies show the downside of hustle culture and how it does more harm than good to us:
If you’re just like me who has developed habits of being constantly online, busy, and engaged in dozens of things, slowing down will take some getting used to. It’s not easy, it’s not always comfortable but if our well-being can benefit from it, then it’s worth a try, don’t you think?
The Intention - Not The Aesthetics - Of A Slow Life
Slow living is not only for the elite or the privileged. It's accessible to all - city dwellers, families, the working class, everyone.
How To Slow Down Life
To me, slow living means setting healthy boundaries in our professional and personal life. It's forgoing doom scrolling habits and mindless online shopping hauls.
It's creating pockets of time and space for quiet reflection and doing nothing. It's realizing our own definition of success so we don't get lost in the rat race, or fear of missing out or noise in social media.
Slow living is not the answer to all of our problems but it can help our overstimulated minds and bodies and even our finances too.
With little shifts in our routines no matter how uncomfortable it is at first, we can slowly ease into a gentle, mindful and intentional life. This is the heart of slow living.
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Keep the good work up!❤
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Thank you for your lovely content ♡
Glad you enjoy it!
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Thank you, I appreciate it ❤️
I love this video. Thank you for sharing it.
Glad you enjoyed it! ❤️
Such a relaxing video.😌 Thank you.
I'm glad you liked it. 🙏
Fabulous video! I loved it ❤
Thank you. Glad you liked it! ❤️
A beautiful movie, Suzy and wonderful philosophy!
Thank you 🙏
Thank you Suzy for this wonderful video I connect to everything you said even though I’m slowing down and trying to appreciate and strive a little to slow down my mind can still be a battlefield but I’m working towards a better quality quite life thank you dear friend 🌻🕊️
I'm glad to know that my video resonated with you - and that you are working towards the kind of life you want. I hope you're staying nice and cozy and happy, dear Margaret ❤️
@@ASlowSimpleLife hi Suzy the current temperature is 10 degrees at the moment 12:30 midnight so definitely getting better although it’s still pretty cold but keeping as cozy as possible 😊 and feeling more positive hope you are doing well
That doesn't sound so bad. Soon, you'll be working on your vegetable garden and it would be so nice. Thanks for you well wishes and I trust that you are doing good, too ❤️
@@ASlowSimpleLife thank you Suzy I’m doing much better hopefully I can grow some fresh veg this year I’m really hoping to enjoy sunshine when it comes and enjoy some nice nature walk days etc as it’s been a very long cold winter so far hope all is well with you and you have a an amazing blessed year 🪴
Nice video
Thank you.