Retreats - A Time for Self Care Part 3
How is your soul?
Are you feeling stressed or anxious? Do you desire to be more centred or find more peace or direction in your life?
If you answered yes to either question, consider venturing on a retreat for a day or more. Getting away to a retreat centre, cottage, beach, or place of safety and comfort can help you break away from your everyday life and aid you in seeing the forest for the trees or finding rest for your soul - where I define the soul as where your mind, will and emotions live.
In his book Soul Keeping, author and former pastor John Ortberg, recounts how he asked Christian philosopher Dallas Willard what he needed to do to stay spiritually healthy. Slowly, Dallas replied, “You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life.” Would this help you? When I read this quote, I realized that my decades of hurry robbed me from experiencing more peace and contributed to my struggle to relax.
How can you eliminate hurry? Try a retreat - preferably without an agenda. It can be a great tool to start and maintain you on this soul journey.