868 thoughts on “STOP in the Name of Love!”

1. A stop moment that I have started to bring in at work is actually a moment of movement. It’s when I walk from my office to the kitchen and see whether I can walk with connection and purpose rather than scurrying from place to place. The other stop moment that I am currently exploring is if I can be connected to my body when I am talking to tradespeople. I have in the past had a tendency to rush my communication when I’m dealing with tradespeople, I suppose judgement is there too, as in I haven’t seen them as being as important as whatever it is that I’m doing ‘work-wise’. But now I practice being in my body as fully as I can and stopping what I’m doing on my computer and being as present and as chilled as I can with everybody regardless of whether they’re directly involved with my work or not.

   1. I like your example of some stop moments Alexis, ‘It’s when I walk from my office to the kitchen and see whether I can walk with connection and purpose rather than scurrying from place to place.’

2. We see being up and doing things as activity, but we don’t see rest as activity – yet it is, there is lots of activity taking place in rest, we can be more reflective and contemplative, receive insights, come out of feeling rushed or stressed and into a sense of settlement, the body is active in rest in a different way, busy taking care of itself and we are giving each cell space to more harmoniously work without the pressures we place on the body. I find rest is a more inward activity.

   1. That is a great point, and a great sharing Melinda, ‘we don’t see rest as activity – yet it is, there is lots of activity taking place in rest, we can be more reflective and contemplative, receive insights, come out of feeling rushed or stressed and into a sense of settlement’.

3. Appreciation of who we are and that we can also feel that same divine essence in another is part of us connecting to our inner temple and thus deepening our ability to rest deeply.

4. That is amazing that you stopped for a rest, fell asleep, woke up and still managed to complete your tasks. In a world that seems to want far more hours in the day to get everything done this is unheard of, however you have shown it can be achieved.

5. I found that when I don’t take stop moments I get more and more racy which ends up with me bumping myself so that I have to listen.

6. Choosing quality in what we do lays foundations that are reaped throughout the day, not just for ourselves but for anyone we come into contact with.

7. Thank you Sarah, stop moments can have a profound effect on our health and wellbeing as they can support us to be more aware of where we are at and how we truly feel in our day, which can lead us to making healthier choices for ourselves by understanding what is needed. The stopping part is so essential because we often have patterns of being on the go and focusing on making sure the outer things get done, and not taking care of ourselves.

   1. My body now speaks so loudly that I literally cannot override it, I have to stop, rest and sleep as it recharges itself. My body certainly lets me know what is essential to take care of itself.

8. Like you Sarah I know that force that keeps you going from one tick box to the next – it’s like an out of control train. But I love your suggestion to say ‘stop, in the name of love’ for when bring the integrity of love to any situation quality, harmony and grace can follow.

9. Learning the value of quality over quantity by honouring the wisdom of our bodies, not only supports our well-being but also provides far more presence in our living day. With this, the quality and authenticity is then naturally felt in what we do, with no push, drive or exhaustion.

10. ‘I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.’ Yes we all know that quality not quantity is the way to go but we can easily get caught up in the business of life. When we do our body suffers and we end up pretty ragged or numbed by a substance so we don’t have to feel this raggedness…we can push it aside but it does not go away it just goes deeper into the body and we wonder, later on, why we have an illness or disease.

    1. Elainearthey this is a great sharing as we can over ride and get on with things when our bodies are asking us to take more care of ourselves and may be stop and rest. If we don’t listen it makes sense that the unrest would go deeper into our bodies and then manifest as an illness or disease sometime later. It’s our bodies only way of saying stop.

    2. Quality is key in all we do, ‘we all know that quality not quantity is the way to go’.

11. Love it Sarah … the world did not end because your took a couple of hours to rest, because your body needed it. What a consciousness that we have to keep going no matter what, and that if we don’t everything will fall apart. Just goes to show what the foundations are and what we have been living that we don’t feel steady and stable.

    1. So true Natalie – that world received instead a truer reflection of what is means to live in honor of who we are, and it is this quality of reflection that is far more needed today.

    2. It may also be that the world IS falling apart because we aren’t stopping – we aren’t giving the body it’s true and very needed rhythm of action and then rest, which places a great pressure on our health. And, we aren’t allowing the space to contemplate and reflect on life, to sense and honour what we feel, and then go out back to the world and take action on that by making changes for ourselves, or by calling for change in the world. We simply don’t have as much ability to connect to our soul and God in that non-step doing, it’s in the quietness that we can reconnect and feel what’s true, and restore ourselves with our own love.

       1. Another beautiful sharing Melinda, I love this reminder, ‘We simply don’t have as much ability to connect to our soul and God in that non-stop doing, it’s in the quietness that we can reconnect and feel what’s true, and restore ourselves with our own love.’

12. Stop moments for me are life-saving moments when I give myself the space to take an honest look at how I am feeling instead of pretending that I am fine, when I’m not. They are the biggest gift of love from me to my body, with the outcome a deepening of the respect for, and the honouring of, my body, and from there for the whole of my life.

    1. It’s so nurturing to stop and just ask myself “How do I really feel?”, especially if I’m thinking a lot or feeling unsettled. There is also the ‘stop moment’ that invites us to enjoy how amazing we feel, and even take some time out to do this and go deeper with it.

       1. Melinda, great sharing ‘that there are also ‘stop moments’ that invite us to enjoy how amazing we feel, and even take some time out to do this and go deeper with it,’ how often do we stop and give ourselves permission to deeply appreciate just how amazing we are and feel. To allow ourselves to access more of the joy that is always there waiting to be reconnected to.

    2. I love that idea, the biggest gift of love from me to my body. I know that when I do not offer myself those stop moments I get quite racy and within a short time my body is speaking very loudly to me.

    3. My body also wisely brings me to a stop to nurture and cherish myself, whilst equally re-charging my batteries, ‘ I am learning how to be with my body and listen to the wisdom it shares quietly, taking the moments to stop and be with my body and to nourish it.’

13. “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” – this is GOLD, for when we feel joyful within, no matter what we do, even if it is taking the rubbish out, becomes fun rather than a chore. And in this too we do not tire out as much – compared to when we are feeling like we have to do things and do them fast and efficiently and it is a burden (this is super tiring no matter what we are doing).

14. The idea of stopping for a moment when we are super busy and feeling how much there is to be done, feels like the craziest idea EXCEPT if and when the body is saying it is time to stop. And amazing when we actually listen – often we worry and think we will be behind schedule or that the job will not be completed, but usually when I have listened to my body then it is amazing to feel how everything falls into place and how fast my body can recover from a small break and then how much more focused I am with getting the job completed.

15. “The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off. I simply rested because that was what my body was sharing with me it needed to do” – this just reminded me that I am the only person who can take care of my body and without doing this bit, how can I ever really do anything for anyone? And that taking care of my body is actually the first step for taking care of others and the world.

    1. Well said Fumiyo – for when we take better care of ourselves it enables us to also take better care of others and the world around us.

16. When we drive our vehicle as hard and fast as it will go we have to stop to refuel but when we drive gently in consideration of ourselves and all others on the road then we don’t have to stop so often and are able to enjoy who we are and all that is around us as we move.

17. To ‘STOP in the Name of Love!’ not just now and then but on a regular base to check in with our quality, focus and intention would serve all of us equally a great deal. Basically it is a forever unfolding increase in living lovingly.

    1. Evolution in any other name is abuse-olution, as we all need to ‘Stop in the name of Love!’

18. I soooo know this one ‘Even then, when I did stop, I never really stopped to truly rest or nourish my body.’ Stopping but not really truly stopping! And I have really been aware more recently how we are masters at doing this .. predominately our stopping, or taking a moment out includes looking at a mobile phone, aka not stopping at all just checking out and not wanting to feel what is going on. This was evident to me while travelling on the train in London the other day. However, amazingly I have noticed how things have started to change. For instance last night before going to bed, my body was very loud in saying ‘just be with me’ to the point I could not ignore this, so before going to bed I lay down and did a few gentle stretches .. it felt really lovely.

19. I like what you say about the fact that we do know, but that we do not practice enough, actually doing what we know (what our bodies have told us) would support most. This is an area for investigation.

20. Yes, we do know how to stop, but it is also about saying No to all our endless doing when our body is communicating it is enough.

21. When I am in drive it is much harder to stop, I focus on what needs to be done at the expense of my body and find myself exhausted at the end of the day.

22. Stop moments are so important to bring into our day, for when we keep living in drive and push, the body can only handle so much and can eventually bring its own stop in the form of illness and disease.

23. I am glad you noticed that the world did not fall apart or end when you took two hours off. It is such a trick of our mind to let us think we cannot be missed and then override our body (which is aligned to the stars when we choose so) and lose our joy of being by this over-doing.

24. So we are saying quality first and that the belief that we have to output a certain amount, in whatever way, to consider ourselves okay is one of many false beliefs that need to find the rubbish bin.

    1. Absolutely Matilda, quality first, not quantity, ‘I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.’

25. I was recently unwell and didn’t realise til the enforced stop how much I had been pushing myself. So many great reminders here Sarah, thank you.

26. Stop moments are essential and there are many every day if we but chose to be aware of them. They can be seconds, a minute or two hours long and they are delicious.

27. Yes Sarah, for we are lost in the overwelm of lovelessness. It is a wise thing to stop — and choose love. Love to be our focus in life. And make sure that in whatever way or level you are in your life, be open to love and the fact that we are universally all love.

28. One can only appreciate the power of stopping only if one stops and sees what happens. That registry never leaves us and we can return to it any time we wish.

    1. It is important to remember to appreciate ourselves for these stop moments, ‘ a deep appreciation of me, for taking the time to stop.’

29. Feeling my body while reading your blog I felt it is very clearly communicating that it is time to stop. I had a day with a lot of unexpected situations and did not allow myself to have a moment to let my body rest and that is what I will ‘do’ as in choose, next.

30. It is true that we do know how to stop, do know and deeply feel the benefits of switching projects or activities, feeling when one thing is complete for now, and when to move on to the next thing.. what gets in the way of following what we can feel is needed next is often attachment: a stubbornness to hold on to what we want to do and how we think it should be done. Letting go of those pictures and just allowing ourselves to be and feel what is needed from moment to moment frees us up and sustains that feeling of being connected to everything and everyone else. When we work according to pictures, because we’re seeking the high of reward or recognition, we actually make life feel like more hard work than it is or needs to be.

31. Thank you Sarah, this is so true for most people, it is like we are spinning out of control in constant doing and not resting. I’m sure there are natural cycles within each day that ask us to be active and then to rest, some smaller, and some larger and more noticeable. It’s like the outbreath (our output) and inbreath (our rest and rejuvenation inwards).

32. This blog makes me appreciate that everything can be said and delivered in love, in this way the person is reflected what love truly represents – what a beautiful reflection….

33. I loved this gem of a blog, it describes everything about every human being existing in this plane of life. I can recall the countless times I have over ridden the clues of my body and paid for it later, whether exhausted, tired still after a quantity amount of sleep, or indulging on stimulations to keep me going.

    Sarah you are absolutely correct, that time out to just be with yourself or not pushing past the signals is the most loving thing we could do for ourselves and it doesn’t cost anything, in other words taking your body for a holiday, its right there in front of us.

34. Sometimes a stop moment calls for a rest, but most times a stop moment calls us to stop the energy that is running us and realign to the Divine.

    1. Yes Kathleenbaldwin, I agree. When I stop I check my breath and how connected I am to my body first off and feel my heart and realign…such a vital step.

35. Thank you for sharing this beautiful reminder that being in connection to the quality of who we are supersedes the quality of doing any day and in fact brings greater enjoyment to all that we do regardless of what it is.

36. More and more these days I am correcting myself when I say “I don’t know” when it comes to my feelings or choices being or needing to be made. It might not come straight away but if I open up with “ I don’t know YET” soon the answers become apparent.

    1. Love it…that little word YET gives us so much space for the truth to show itself.

37. It is challenging sometimes to bring ourselves to a stop, to honour ourselves and not override all the messages our body gives us, when we actually stop and allow ourselves to rest, our movements afterwards are of a much more refined and delicate quality as we are connected to our essence.

38. This was great for me to read this morning before I am about to start my day and think of all the things that I need to do! Especially this ‘and listen to the wisdom it shares quietly,’ I feel like I rarely just give myself the time to stop and be with me as reading your blog what I could see was when I do things like send an email or put a load of washing on etc I think that is me stopping!!!!!! It looks like I have something to learn here … to listen and care for my body more.

39. I can relate very much what you shared about not knowing how to stop and in my case I didn’t even know how to be with myself. I felt very strange and uncomfortable being alone on my own so I looked for a lot of distractions, activities and relationships in order to not feel my own discomfort. Today I appreciate my choice of learning step by step how to care, be and embrace myself as I know deep down within that I deserve. As you said Sarah, it is a loving work in process that feels very enriching and new.

40. ‘I awoke with a renewed sense of care and love for myself and with a deep appreciation of taking the time to stop.’ Such a precious feeling Sarah. Instead of pushing ourselves through to getting things done there is another way, we can listen and honour what our body has to say. I’m amazed of how grateful it is and how quickly it regenerates after a difficult day. It sustains us in a very loving and unconditional way so it is worth to take care it deeply.

41. When we listen to our body saying ‘Stop’ we start to understand why we have to take more loving care of ourselves.

42. Your blog title Sarah, is such a glorious re-imprinting of the old emotional song title!

    1. That was the first thing that came to me too Lyndy, I saw the ladies before my eyes and the song in my ears and standing still when they sang the word ‘stop’. I truly love this title and blog, this is really make us stop and feel how life is about quality and that’s not what the song did years ago.

43. To have the doing and then the downtime or relief is a pretty common pattern – and so what I have understood from Universal Medicine is the huge importance of cutting this cycle and actually understanding the important balance of repose and motion. And that if we are in repose – it is very different to switch off time or just sleep – it is about a surrender in the body and not taking any more new information in but rather confirming what we have taken in during the motion phase. This allows us to see a fuller and more complete picture of what is at play.

44. Sarah, I love this, it makes me laugh every time I read it and reminds me that I can put myself first and to rest when I need to; ‘The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off. I simply rested because that was what my body was sharing with me it needed to do.’

45. I love the title of this blog and am choosing this more and more but can still find it challenging at work where my self-worth can still be tied up in what I achieve so I put pressure on myself to keep going because there is so much to ‘do’ and in that lose the sense of my beingness and the invaluable communication from my body.

46. It can feel sometimes like I am on a relentless treadmill of tasks that need to be done. But actually, given the fact that there is a continuous stream of activities that require my attention, this means that I can actually stop and rest and pick them all up again, because they will not stop being there, so I can be in authority of how I do what needs to be done and not the other way around.

47. Stopping can be really challenging, as when we stop we feel everything we have been living up to that stop moment. That’s not always that comfortable because we can feel the rush, push, drive, even if we have gone in the opposite direction and given up or checked out. Who wants to feel that? The important thing there, is it’s ok to feel all of that and more. There is nothing wrong with feeling any of that, in fact it is important to feel this. What’s more important is not to make a judgement on it, just observe and feel and nominate. Through stopping we offer our bodies moments to rest and return to ourselves. It’s a caring moment for our body. These then become the foundation of which we can build our day on feeling more rested, present with our body and much more solid in ourselves. It builds a quality that we can live the whole of our life in, still being productive and busy, but without it impacting on our well-being and our body.

48. We do not stop enough and breathe, breathe our own breath and stand still to feel where we are at. If we would, actually we are calling ourselves up for a change, a shift and deepening. We also would need less and less of those extreme stop moments where we can not but stop, forcefully so.. Why, if actually we didn’t truly in the first place need that ?

49. Love that “I actually do know how to stop, but I don’t put it into practice often enough.”. Very much a classic one because often we do know what we should do, what is a more loving or caring choice, but it is easier to just keep going in our old ways. Because if we put it in practice, it will show us things to work on and we have to deal with feeling amazing too! Sometimes when you identify with life being hard, this is the hardest one to deal with.

50. It can be challenging at times to bring yourself to a stop, but sometimes it is what is needed in order to bring about true quality to the job at hand.

51. Absolute gold for me this morning… and I ponder a question… can I stop in love for myself, free of the dependence on my self-worth being based on performance and achievement?

52. I recently stopped over the Christmas break and oh my goodness – it was incredible. I became so aware of so many things and how I operate in life. I’ve now committed to stopping more often to allow myself this grace, not only to rest and rejuvenate but also to reflect.

53. It has come to a point where I am really starting to feel I can no longer override my body, which is such a blessing. Over the last week or so I have seen I have been very much a yes person in saying yes I can do lots of things but 1. am i discerning what I am saying yes to and 2. what is the quality I am doing tasks/etc in as if I say yes to everything. I can relate to a similar scenario as to what you share where there is a forever growing ‘to do’ list and I have put myself to one side of this. This is still very much a learning process for me in being fully committed to life but also taking deep care of myself as well. And it is even in the little things like last night while having my dinner (without a computer!) I found it really hard to just sit there and be with myself while having my dinner and not contact/message people on my phone etc .. seems to be the epidemic everywhere at the moment!

54. Taking the moment to stop and re-connect allows for true movement in our bodies, one which is free from impositions of life, confirming the divinity within ourslevs.

55. ‘ I awoke with a renewed sense of care and love for myself and with a deep appreciation of taking the time to stop.’ That’s the beauty of taking care of our body. It will offer us the space that is naturally there, but we no longer feel when we push ourselves to keep on going.

56. If there is no self-love as part of our foundation, then the only time we stop is until we are given a correction whether that is through illness, accident or death. At the very core of our being we are all love, so it is true medicine to embrace that which is our natural right and stop to care and deeply appreciate who we are.

57. I’m appreciating how many stop moments and markers I have built into my days and how these are now simply part of what I do.

    1. Beautiful Fiona. Caring ourselves is the most simple and natural thing we can do. This didn’t was my normal before I knew Universal Medicine but after all I’ve realized how enriching and joyful life can be when I make the choice of deeply caring myself.

58. I’ve forgotten recently how to stop and have found myself in the ‘I will just ….’ mode of operating and it feels horrible as my body tenses and I end up feeling utterly exhausted at the end of the day. Taking a stop moment brings us back to ourselves which means the quality of what we then do is then completely different.

    1. Everything that we do comes down to alignment, we are either aligning to the consciousness of God with our movements or we are aligning to the consciousness of what is not God with our movements. A stop moment can be a precious moment where we re-align to the consciousness of God after ‘pushing through’ which is a movement of aligning to the consciousness of what is not God. Two camps, two consciousnesses, two types of movement, two types of alignment.

59. Yes self-appreciation is key otherwise we can easily drag our bodies through whatever we’ve chosen to do. Making life about quality rather than function…I love it!

60. I experience this joyfulness with quality based output too Sarah. Output without quality is a relentless and exhausting pushing and rushing throughout the day.
    “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output”.

61. When we focus on what we are doing and bring our essence to it whatever we are doing gets transformed.

62. What a nightmare we create for ourselves with the attitude of the necessity to ‘keep going’ and push though the endless ‘to do’ list and overriding the wisdom of the body signals that are constantly being communicated to us. This leads to illness and disease in many forms if new choices are not made that support the body.
    “I am learning how to be with my body and listen to the wisdom it shares quietly, taking the moments to stop and be with my body and to nourish it.”

63. The hardest thing can be to sit down on the couch and just do nothing for a minute or two, it is an incredible experience though, as it creates an instant deepening of the connection to how we feel in our body, and that can often be the feeling we have been trying to avoid.

64. Yes I can relate to the concept of ‘just keep going’ no matter what the body is sharing with you. Story of my life!! Resulting in adrenal fatigue and thyroid issues. I now have to take care of my body in a different way these days, I listen more to what it needs and honour that.

65. The thing is that when we stop to rest in honor of our bodies, we are not really ceasing to move, we are in fact still moving and working towards the task at hand, as we are moving in honor of love. Sometimes a moment of rest is part of the equation, of what is needed, in order to continue to deliver the quality of presence needed to honor the project or task we are working towards. Our bodies certainly do know in every moment what is needed to support us best. And so it makes sense to develop a loving relationship with our bodies so that we can bring our all to all that we do.

66. It was like the hugest impossibility to have a nap in the afternoon one day when I felt tired, the impossibility came from an ideal in my head that says I can’t do that. But my body was asking me to rest and in the end I did, and when I woke up and looked myself in the mirror, oh gosh, have not felt and looked so intact for a while, the confirmation was in the living.

67. “Nowadays I am looking to bring in more stop moments – a loving work in progress because some days I still override the need to stop.” This is so wise Sarah. If we don’t choose to stop and rest when our body gives us small messages it can manifest in a deep exhaustion and maybe a more serious illness. There will always be ‘one more thing to do before’…….. Listening to our body and honouring what it is asking of us feels so important in this ‘keep busy’ age.

68. I love the simplicity shared here Sarah about stop moments, I have a stop moment programmed into my mobile everyday at a certain time. It is a beautiful reminder to pause and check in with myself and the quality in how I am moving that day, sometimes I ignore it because I am in the rush of the day, but your blog is inspiring me to commit more to this and to feel how supportive this simple act truly is.

69. For me when I am in this …’I just kept going. Just get this job done. Just tidy up the kitchen. Just send that email. Just put that load of washing on… and then I will stop.’ It just exposes the energy I am in and the energy I am moving in which is not from the a loving quality which I know I can be and move in. It is like re-training the whole body and way of being and going ‘no not that way but this way’ which is still very much work in progress for me.

70. Thank you, Sarah. This is a great reminder. I do know a stop, even just for a couple of minutes, taken at the moment the body is asking for is so rejuvenating – but have not been practicing it! I can feel the deep, residual exhaustion in my body.

71. If we embrace constant motion and then have a glass of wine and a cigarette, in truth we have not stopped even if may think so. What does truly mean to stop? Stop is not a moment of relief but a moment to truly come back to you.

72. Great blog Sarah – the true stop moment is being prepared to listen to the great wisdom the body offers consistently 24/7, rather than dismissing it and pushing through the tick box list to achieve something..

    1. So true Stephanie – We certainly are missing out on moving with the fullness of the ‘big picture’ backing us when we dismiss the wisdom of our bodies.

73. Now that really is worthy of a song to truly… Stop… In the Name of Love.

74. I love this Sarah! I will love it even more when the day comes we can actually take the time we legitimately need in dedicated resting rooms in our workplaces. That will however require several levels of responsibility of a kind most of us aren’t yet ready for.

75. To be very honest, to choose to stop is something extremely unfamiliar in my body especially for work. So in all other areas in life I start to choose stop moments for myself, to begin to familarize my body in how that feels, and extend that into my work day. To be very honest, this has made a very big difference in my life as well as in my work. Stopping is allowing the body a moment to rest, it is equally focused and present, but physically the body requires rest and nourishment, so it is a deepening of care we put on ourselves. This makes so much sense of what the word deepening means.

76. When I need to stop and I have the feeling that I cant’ do it, it’s definitely the moment to stop and revise the quality in which I’m moving. When I stop in those moments, I usually find that the quality was not loving. This is the reason that makes the stop moments so essential during the day, because it is what allows me to change the quality and come back to the love everytime it’s needed.

77. It is so easy to get caught up in the business of the day and put off the stop moment, but when we do pay heed to the body’s calling we are given a greater awareness of how our body is truly feeling in that loving moment.

78. I like the sound of stopping but stopping in the name of love and purpose, even better.

79. It is so lovely when we do give our selves the ‘ok’ to stop. This is incredibly essential for our well-being and also opens up the awareness to why we might think that stopping isn’t ok, even when every part of our body knows that that is the true choice in the moment.

80. Making our doing more important than honouring the quality of who we truly are is an assured path to exhaustion anxiety and stress.

81. When in connection and honouring of our bodies we approach stop moments as an opportunity to confirm, that which is divine within ourselves.

82. Beautiful Sarah. I’ve learnt that when we don’t stop life will often step in to stop things for us and we may end up having an accident or an illness that forces us to stay out for a moment and consider the impact of what we are choosing.

83. Even though I put stop moments in my life because I live in such a raciness I find it hard to stop and deeply surrender in these moments, so if I take the time to rest I often don’t allow my body to deeply rest but stay in a momentum and feel guilty then for wasting the time and I end up feeling more exhausted too.

84. We have stepped away from our truth and the Love that we are, so very far away that it is become more and more common to be stopped by our bodies saying no more. Enough of this abuse and dismissiveness and we are being forced to make changes that are more Loving. Even those moments when we just knock ourselves and we brush off, they are the starting point of being asked to stop. These are all blessings because each time we have an opportunity to choose something different.

85. “these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.”
    I would agree that the quality is equal if not greater than the output. I can achieve and get complimented on a job well done but that doesn’t disolve how I am left feeling afterwards. A task completed in the loveliness that I am doesn’t need anyone to say job well done. Because I know it feels good/true on the inside.

86. Letting ourselves stop and value the quality with which we do things rather than simply our output, is an incredible invitation to expand our relationship with life.

87. Sarah, I have also realised this recently; ‘I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.’ I got so caught up in the doing and trying to do as much as possible that the quality was not always there. I am now realising that quality is the most important thing rather than just getting things done and so I am paying more attention to how I am moving, how I am working and speaking and being.

    1. I would say that ‘quality is far more important than actual output’ because in my experience commitment to quality actually leads to increased output, and to be honest, output without quality serves no one because what is it that they’re getting? Everything comes imbued with the energy that it was produced in, and so to end up with a product that conveys nothing of truth or love is surely of no real benefit. If ultimately we’re here to remember who we all are and to leave this plane of life, then anything that does not support us in that is simply going to keep us here for longer doing the same old things. As much as many of us don’t acknowledge the pain that we’re in, being here and living this way is painful for us all on a very deep level.

88. To stop is the only way to end the momentum of doing we can go into and I am learning with ups and downs and serious messages from my body that the quality I choose to do something in is always first and it is never about the outcome.

89. The never ending it will just do’s in the tick box of life… I too know this list of ‘just’ifications that you speak of Sarah, alittle too well I am starting to realise.

90. Sarah, this is something I have to remind myself of every day especially when absolutely pressed. I can usually summon up the presence to stop and sit, or stop and walk around the house, or stop and breathe gently. Yesterday when trying to order some pants online I ended up speaking to the retail person on the phone to see if my size was available. She was in overwhelm from hard work etc. I also needed to be getting on with finishing some writing but I could feel that I needed to stop and be with her and listen and talk. I received a beautiful email from her when I got home from work yesterday thanking me for chatting to her.

91. Sarah, this is very supportive to read, when I do stop because my body needs to rest it feels very nurturing and honouring of me, even if its for 5 minutes. Reading this I feel inspired to take more of these stop moments as I can feel how powerful they are how they can stop me from rushing and being in drive and allow me to come back to my natural stillness and then move from here.

92. We avoid the stop least it reveal the giddy momentum we are so caught up moving in. Hence the pseudo ‘stop’ by way of uppers and downers (coffee, smoke, donut, passing out on the couch etc.) that will not let us feel the truth of what we are choosing.

93. But love does not mind if we be it or not, it does not mind where we start, whether it is true, love simply shows us how patient it is, and allow ourselves to get what it is by feeling our own devastation not being it. There is no rush in love, love cannot be rushed as it is an unfolding process whether a destination, and certainly without the possibility of recognition–either way.

94. Nothing is more important than being love, being love to ourselves is where every single person needs to start from.

95. Reading this blog today, I can feel that these stops are not actually a choice, they are as vital to us as our blood moving round our body, without them things will start to go wrong. A day of new priorities and love is front and centre.

96. After reading your blog many times Sarah I have been inspired to take more stop moments. Some of them have been great, supporting my connection with my body and allowing myself a rest to feel what is going on. Then there was a few times where it felt difficult to stop and I just continued on doing what I was doing. These were the moments where I probably needed to stop the most. I will take a look at this more closely and learn to accept regular stop moments as my body feel to instead of fighting it with my thoughts.

97. Interesting coming back to my blog today and appreciating that these stop moments can be in lots of different shapes and sizes. In this one I stopped for a couple of hours and rested, but more and more I am realising it can be as simple as taking a ‘stop in the name of the love’ moment at your desk, breathing your own breath (http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/gentle-breath-meditation/the-gentle-breath-meditation-in-5-simple-steps.html) and connecting to your body. There are so many ways we can stop and connect and check in with ourselves to see what is going on in our bodies. How do you stop for you?

    1. I started to take little stop moments to check how I am sitting at my computer, how I walk down the stairs, open the door etc. The more I practice this the more I will be able to connect to my body and feel the ease to really stop when my body needs it. I am also inspired to practice The Gentle Breath Meditation. I am appreciating how these stop moments come in many forms and sizes; thanks Sarah for this awesome reminder.

    2. Yes, stop moments don’t need to be long and complicated it could be as simple as closing your eyelids with awareness.

98. Developing our relationship with our quality within, allows us to create a new marker from which we can express from in our bodies and the more we deeply appreciate this – the easier it becomes to make more loving choices in our daily life- it never ends!

99. How lovely that you actually allowed yourself to do this. So many people would scoff at the idea and keep going and keep scoffing! It makes perfect sense to give our bodies the rest that they need in order to function well and feel vital. If we don’t so this we are asking for a life of exhaustion.

100. I used to struggle with taking time to stop for myself but now find these simple moments a real joy. I really love taking the time to remove my makeup at night and apply a nice moisturiser to my face like a beautiful ceremony and part of my wind down time for bed. These stop moments are opportunities to appreciate our bodies and the connection we have to them, because without them where would we be?

101. So often when we get stressed out or feel overwhelmed we can think to ourselves: “I need a break, I need to have a holiday, I need to get away…”….yet none of these things are actually effective if we don’t address the energy of the stress or overwhelm itself. This is really revealing, as it says that if I address the energy, then there actually is no ‘need’ for a break or holiday but I can choose to have one or not. Then we actually are not controlled by the stress, and we can allow ourselves to be more natural in what we do and how we are, and also schedule those breaks in as needed so it does not get to a point of overwhelm.

102. Ah, Brendan – what a gorgeous quote – one I need to pin up on my fridge as a gentle reminder of what can be when I let go of the drive and truly stop and rest.

     1. Couldn’t agree more Henrietta. This quote from Brendon should be repeated: ‘Beautiful to appreciate that when we do stop and truly rest, the world doesn’t fall down but our relationship with it deepens.’ This is a fridge magnet with magnetic pull!!

103. I love this blog Sarah – it is so good in exposing for us all how we just keep going and we don’t actually bring ourselves to a stop. This can be very hard to do in our current world, where we have this incessant drive to tick a box and just keep doing things, never once stopping to ask ourselves if the quality in which we do things has been maintained or if it has dropped. I can so relate to this. And when we are so in the drive, to stop is one of the last things we want to do. And yet it is one of the most valuable tools we can use to bring awareness to how we are feeling and how we are doing things. Such an great reminder to have at all times.

104. In my work place, most, if not all, staff are totally exhausted because of the volume of work and the long hours and it’s crazy they seem to believe they are not entitled to stop and they have to keep going until they break down or get seriously ill. Stop in the name of love, and not by doctor’s order, is so much needed.

105. We can be very good at having moments of relief, relaxation, escape or time out when things get stressful, but are not so great at choosing to actually stop and surrender, truly rejuvenate and come back to the quality that will support us moving forward.

106. Lovely reminder Sarah, when we make life about all the things we need to do it is like we are running around on a hamster wheel, totally going about our business mentally ticking off jobs to be done, yet there is no true quality as it is purely a per functionary act. When we stop and connect to our heart, we get to feel what we need to do next, and the more connected we become the greater the quality we take to everything we do.

107. We need to appreciate the huge store of wisdom that is waiting to be accessed if we but stop and allow that moment in connection. In the holding of the all we will understand and know what is needed for all.

     1. This asks us to let go of our controlling way of life and surrender to the quality that lives inside our body, Beautiful Annie ‘In the holding of the all we will understand and know what is needed for all.’

108. Sarah when I first read your article I felt that the notion of laying down in the midst of needing to get a lot of things done was a great idea but not one that I was able to do. Like you shared, the pressure to ‘get things done’ is a mighty one and at the time too mighty for me. Fairly recently however I have been able to put my ‘to-do’ list to one side when I get an over whelming wave of tiredness and simply go to bed for an hour. Invariably I wake refreshed and much more able to get things done. Yet again I am reminded to surrender to the infinite wisdom of the body.

109. “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” – this is a revelation in itself, Sarah – for what point is there in ticking a box to get a job done, if it is not done with purpose combined with true love and care? A box may be ticked but if ticked with emptiness, still remains to be ticked again and again till it is done with deep care and love and purpose. That is after all why we are here….

     1. Great point Henrietta, when I just tick boxes I feel more robotic and very much in control, when I add quality and care to my movements this brings a simplicity and flow that feels more purposeful in every way.

110. Sarah, this is a classic scenario for me: “what do you mean I have to stop?”…yet in the stop lies all our answers, and we get to really feel the space of what is truly needed for us and for the bigger picture. A wonderful reminder – thank you!

111. Oh yum! we do all know how to stop, how to heal ourselves but we very rarely slow down enough to listen to our body and therefore often bulldoze through, building a firm belief that we don’t know! Way too familiar. If we build an awareness of this communication away from moments of high stress we can feel the foundation of support we have built for ourselves and rest, or surrender, into it.

112. Last night when I was cooking supper I clocked that I was rushing. What was ridiculous was that I was rushing for no reason, it was like my default pattern of rushing was so ingrained in me that even when I have absolutely nothing to rush for I’m still rushing. I hadn’t stopped from what I was doing earlier, taken a moment and then carried on, I was in the same momentum so I stopped and changed the way I was preparing my food and I felt a wave of joy come to what I was doing. I then realised that if I chose to do every task with the same space that is needed, all tasks would become a joy and not just things that need to get done.

113. On re-reading this blog what struck me is that you stopped not for 5 or 10 minutes, knowing you had a lot to do. You stopped for two hours, deeply rested (and fell asleep) and still everything got done. It is so interesting as we constantly tell ourselves how much there is to do without honouring how we feel and yet when we honour what we feel the rest seems to slot into place. Beautiful.

114. Thank you Sarah – such an invaluable reminder. Taking the time to stop is a deeply loving act and one that I have had to consciously introduce into my everyday living, as being swept away and getting lost in ‘have to get things done’ momentum was not uncommon for me. Stopping allows us to take stock of the momentum we are in offering us the opportunity to confirm who we are within, by choosing to rest or whatever activity that honours and supports deepening our connection to who we are.

     1. We currently all need stop moments but there will come a point where we don’t. Sure it seems a long way off right now as we’re all caught up in what feels like a very contagious momentum of rush but there will be time where we hold our steadiness, our connection and our stillness so consistently that there is no need for stop moments.

115. I am still learning to stop…It feels like there are endless amounts of things to do, certainly no shortage of work, jobs, chores, emails, preparation etc etc to do… so much to keep me out of trouble you could say!
     And yet, as I have experienced, the stopping these things does not make me stop on the inside, unless I first slow things down…No matter the amount of work, if I pace myself and work on things in an ordered way, then when I ask myself to stop, it is seemingly less difficult to do so than when I am going at full speed – not much different I suppose to pulling gently over to the side of the road when you are driving at a slower speed than if you are racing around careening around the corners! And then once that slowed down pace allows me to stop more easily, then I can feel more of how to settle my body. And I know this is only the beginning, the tip of the iceberg, for I am yet to fully learn how to do as much as I do, without such an extent of motion. There is a saying ‘learning to be in the eye of the storm’ … this takes practice, and something called stillness, which I am still learning so much about. I know it is in there somewhere (in me) but I can’t say that I access it all of the time! But I can say that I am calling out to stillness and learning to develop a relationship with it gradually…

     1. Love what you have shared here Henrietta. I too am still learning to bring stop moments through my day and so I remind myself of the lived fact that, in my experience, every single time I have chosen to take a stop moment, it has supported me hugely to either confirm or correct a momentum I am in, allowing for a deeper connection to Soul, as such either way, both offer evolution.

116. Stop moments don’t just allow us to pause, reflect and feel where we are at, they equally appreciate and confirm ourselves and the loving choices we have made. It also gives us the opportunity to deepen within ourselves the quality we bring to all that we then go and do with ourselves in the day.

117. Stopping is not just interrupting a movement we are in. It is also addressing the energy we are moving in.

     1. Love this Eduardo… This should be written in neon lights… as it reminds us about knowing that every single thing in life is about energy and then, how we are responsible for the way we move and … the consequences of this movement… moving in harmony or ‘dis-ease’

     2. So true Eduardo, we are constantly choosing the quality that we do something, either with love or not and stop moments are the key to changing those patterns.

118. Like a race to the finish, we think we will fall miles behind if we stop, just for moment, or worse sink and drown without trace! But like alcoholics it’s not till we take stress right out of our body for a period, that we see we can actually live struggle free and flourish. Thank you Sarah for the timely reminder.

119. Sarah, I really love reading this article, I have realised lately that I do not stop, my legs have been really achy and I have kept going, putting on the washing etc.. rather than actually listening to my body which is wanting to stop and rest, this is something that I am now working on as if I stop, even for a few minutes this feels really nurturing and allows me to then start my tasks in a much more gentle, loving way rather than in the rush and drive.

120. Thank you Sarah for sharing the importance of giving ourselves space to clock where our bodies are at. If we push through and don’t stop – we reflect this to others – and it becomes a cycle of it is OK to keep pushing through. But if we start to listen to our bodies and rest when needed, we send out a message of self care to the world.

121. I am learning to appreciate and to value the power of the ‘stop’ moments we can bring to our day.

122. Accepting and appreciating the constant wisdom from our Soul welcomes even more.

123. When we allow time to govern our choices often we feel we never have enough time but when we allow our inner knowing and our body to guide us we seem to have all the time in the world to stop and reconnect.

124. ‘I am learning how to be with my body and listen to the wisdom it shares quietly…’ I love this. Acknowledging, accepting and appreciating the wisdom of my body has changed everything for me. Gone is the struggle to try and work things out in my head and more and more I am surrendering to the unwavering guide and support that my body is.

125. Giving ourselves permission to stop is giving ourselves permission to listen to our Soul.

     1. Very powerful Vicky. No wonder we often feel pushed to continue on regardless of how we feel so to avoid connecting to our soul, this is a choice we make but we always have another choice to step away from the energy that drives this push and disconnection, and stop to reconnect to our soul.

126. Stopping when tired and not overriding this tiredness is something that I have not mastered. I still catch myself pushing on through and therefore leaving myself overly tired in the evening which then impacts the quality of my sleep and the exhaustion continues. Sarah, thank you for the much needed reminder that actually when we stop we create more than enough space to achieve all that is needed.

127. Taking time out from a busy day to actually stop and rest, switch off the phone, shut down the emails and be with ourselves leaves us feeling proportionally far more renewed that you would expect. The simple fact that we have chosen to love ourselves and our bodies respond by loving us right back.

128. thank you Sarah, a good reminder that we are choosing to sabotage ourselves wilfully if we ignore the very clear messages our body is sending – and the consequence is usually a message we can no longer ignore – in the form of an illness or diagnosis that forces us to take the steps we previously resisted. There is a choice to choose awareness and learn gracefully or learn anyway, by the consequences of our choices.

     1. ha ha I love this Annie C, learn gracefully or learn anyway!! Yes, the body doesn’t hold back the learning and it can be in our faces or a gentle tap!

129. Life sure does pound us with the pressures to continue that momentum and push to complete the uncompletable list – but we can live the pressure or we can first choose the quality of how we will be before we do anything, living the quality of our essence first and foremost, unswayed by external assaults – one ends up with us sick, exhausted, demoralised, self-critical or incapacitated, the other allows us to live with awareness, vitality, and joy, and to work with true purpose – Our body can guide us as to what needs to be done in each moment and what supports it to continue to do all that is required – all we need to do is stop and listen..

     1. Our bodies are in constant communication with us; we simply have to see through the noise and distraction to hear what is being shared.

130. Thank you Sarah for a great sharing, I can relate to the to do list, I find when i am gardening and feel it is time to stop, I say to my self just a little more to do, so instead of stopping when my body first tells me I often continue on till I am feeling much too tired then I know I have over done it. Paying closer attention to what my body is feeling then acting on it without delay is a work in progress.

131. I can still fit many more stop and reconnect moments into my day. This is great to reread this blog so that I can appreciate the times when I do stop and then I can make sure that it is up to me to look for more of the same.

     1. Yes I agree Greg, I am now inspired after reading this blog to bring more stop moments into my day.

        1. And the appreciation of the stillness that stopping can bring!

132. I am in a forced stop moment right now because of feeling unwell. I am enjoying practicing the ‘stop’ during my days. It’s like hitting a reset button, where everything after the stop feels different and has more clarity.

133. I’ve noticed that, in society, we somewhat champion the fact that we can override our body and the glaringly obvious messages it gives. Drinking alcohol and being hung over is a good example of this. Why do we push the body to its limits? We are the ones who need to live a life in that body after all!

134. I am so delighted that I returned to this wonderful blog today, for as I read it I realised that I had had no stops today, until now. So before continuing to read I closed my eyes, brought my awareness to my breath, and felt my body; I could feel a weariness, that my eyes were tired and that there was tension in my jaw – ouch! Time to bring back more regular stops – “in the name of love”; my precious love for me!

135. Letting go of the bullying ‘to do’ list and make all our movements from love in everything we do can be amazing how much we get done.

     1. Yes, so true, when we are with our bodies and don’t go into our heads we become extraordinarily productive. The moment we make it about time and focus on what we ‘need’ to get done space caves in and we get far less done.

136. There is no doubt Sarah that life is more enjoyable when we choose the quality of our presence. I am learning to be aware and listen to what my body is communicating; your blog is a great reminder, thank you.

137. I agree Sarah, life is a lot more joyful when we choose to do things in quality combined with listening to our body. I can certainly practice this more often as I notice how easily I forget to stop and connect to myself.

138. Often if we are honest we use busyness in our day as a distraction to not take full responsibility of what has been presented as part of our evolution, and most of the time what is required is simply to stop.

139. Thank you Sarah. Your blog reminded me of a day at work this week when I was so busy I kept going through my lunch break. My boss popped her head in my door to see why I wasn’t going for lunch. As I began to go into the story of ‘too much to do, have to keep going’ I suddenly felt the drive, the push, the motion my body was in and in came also the exhaustion from the way I had been working that morning. Instead of being a martyr to the increased workload I had that day, I was able to stop, accept the love on offer and take the much needed break only to return to work in the afternoon, far more settled. .

140. It is lovely to re-visit this blog Sarah and a timely reminder with the invasive energy of rush permeating everywhere with people scurrying around to get things done for Christmas. Once the energy of rushing and pushing through is running us, it is almost impossible to feel that a STOP is necessary.
     The quality arising from the inner stillness, in which everything can be done, changes everything.

     1. Stephanie, I got a sense from reading your comment that the ‘inner stillness’ that naturally resides within us all, is a very spacious place, a place where there is indeed enough time to get everything done. This is in stark contrast to the ‘closed down’ feeling that accompanies rush and deadlines.

141. Thank you Sarah for sharing STOP in the Name of Love – simply because it was just loving to do so! And to actually not focus on getting the job done (result) but the way we do it (quality).. And that it is simply a belief that is not even true, that we can only achieve the end result (completing a task) when we continue from drive, whilst actually when we surrender to our body – we achieve not only a graceful quality of work but also a true end-result.

     1. Beautifully said Danna, I absolutely agree. The difference in the end result is astounding and the difference in how we feel in our body is also massive when we work with surrendering to our body and honouring how we feel.

142. You gotta love friends who say the right thing at the right time, even when it’s the last thing you want to here! Stop moments are a true revelation. Realising that the world actually doesn’t implode when you don’t complete your list of ‘to do’s’ is pretty awesome! I’ve had many a moment of wonder when I’ve chosen to just let it all go. It’s only then do I get through what I need to do at a later stage with ease, and often with much more efficiency.

     1. ‘Relentless’ is a word that comes to mind when I think about how most of us live our lives, a relentless pressure to get things done and that applies to those who are in the workforce and those who are at home with kids. It’s interesting that couples with kids often argue about who’s the busiest, the person at work will say something like ‘well you get to stay at home’ and the person at home often says something like ‘you get to have lunch by yourself and go to the toilet without kids around your ankles’. It seems that we’re all clamouring for space but space doesn’t come from our environment, it comes from our relationship with time. If we present a steady body that we’re in connection with, one that doesn’t tip into overwhelm or anxiousness then space opens up for us to walk into and complete everything that we need to do. It really is quite magical the way that it works.

143. Often is that when we don’t give ourselves those stop moments, we become resentful for the work that doesn’t allow for them. In turn, we indulge in more vices which cuts our productivity even more. Therefore taking a rest wouldn’t affect the final work output.

     1. I hadn’t thought about how we become resentful when we do not create stop moments before but that’s so true. With stop moments and feeling what our bodies are communicating there is more joy in everyday tasks, so there is no room for resentment.

        1. Agree and this not only translates to tasks but also every other aspect in life.

     2. I agree Luke. The stop moments can allow us to work in a more simple and effective way. When we are pushing, the room for error, complications and unnessessary work, from my experience increases immediately.

        1. And we become the helpless victim in the entire process if we choose to keep pushing through. I’ve been experiencing recently that the further I commit the more wonderful life is. When I try and do the minimal required I sink.

144. The truth is the more I go into the “doing” the more I edge me out of the picture and separate from the beautiful being I am. There always seems to be such a push and rush to get things done otherwise the world will apparently collapse (!), meanwhile without connection to myself and putting my being first a much greater collapse has happened. Doesn’t this expose how little regard we have of ourselves when we brush aside our precious being for a “to do list”?

145. Developing truly taking care of ourselves is really important! It gives us a solid foundation from which we can then work better, essentially do everything in a better quality and so it becomes something that then supports everything else as well.

146. What I love about this experience is that it also shows how we do not have to rush to get things down, and that to truly take our own time with it, doing it in a rhythm that is true of our body, we can still get the things we need to get done done, and with a much deeper focus and quality of presence too.

     1. For me, my experience of time has totally morphed since I’ve committed more to quality. My sense of space has opened up exponentially and I no longer feel hemmed in by time. That’s not to say that there aren’t times when I feel the constraints of time closing in, but they really stand out when they do which makes it easier for me to identify them and to bring a correction in with my body. It’s my body that dictates my experience with time and space, so if I don’t move in a way that says that I don’t have enough time, then I find that space opens up for me to walk on through.

147. Loved your blog Sarah, I find it is much easier to stop when I am feeling very tired or exhausted but much harder to choose a stop moment in my business before I get to that point.

148. Stopping the momentum we are in is very different to just stopping. If our quality doesn’t change in the stop moment it would be more like pressing a pause button.

     1. I love that Vicky, I can feel how many of my stop moments are more like pressing the pause button as nothing really changes. Something for me to draw my attention to tomorrow to see if my stop moments are truly stopping.

     2. Or a ‘crash’ button. I agree Vicky. I used to ‘stop’ as in crash out in bed at night but nothing changed about the momentum that I was in because I simply hauled my exhausted body out of bed in the morning and did it all again! and again and again.

149. I am learning more and more how to stop. Sometimes it might only be for one or two minutes literally and can make a HUGE difference – sometimes it might even be less than a minute. Quite a miracle how powerful and lovely it is.

150. To stop in the name of love to come back to our connection with love to then being able to do whatever we do with and from love and bring love to all that we do is living love.

151. How timely to re-read your magnificent blog Sarah. My business has been expanding and requiring a huge amount of extra work, on top of many other projects before and after work, a property settlement, family visiting etc. and I have almost teetered over into overwhelm, but I have pulled myself up and ‘Stopped in the name of Love’ and come back to the innate rhythm of harmony within, available to us all. It is beautiful to feel such settlement and read your blog again.

152. Thank you Sarah your blog is very timely for me to read this morning and to be reminded not to push myself when I have so much to ‘do’. Making the space to have stop moments in our day really support us to bring a different quality without feeling pressured or anxious about the day needing to be a certain way.

153. “I am learning to bring to a halt the relentless momentum that I have been living with that makes it difficult for me to stop.”

     This is what the incredible yet so simple presentations by Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine are helping me to see also. That there is a way to live in the constant sea of motion we are surrounded by without going under and drowning in overwhelm. It begins with a simple breath, a pause, and in that space, the stillness of our true self is connected to and felt so we can begin to live it in full once more.

154. I have recently discovered or at least allowed myself to feel that I only value me as a functioning man. A somebody who can do. There is little appreciation and I have been finding it very difficult to Stop and just be. This has been a timely reminder of the power and loveliness we are if we Stop and claim the Quality we want to be in.

     1. Most of us see ourselves as only human and it seems that the function of human beings is primarily to get things done. The trouble is we’re energy first and humans second and so life is a completely different experience when we honour the quality of our beingness and then do things from there.

155. It is amazing how much we avoid stopping and simply being with ourselves. I know on my days off I used to watch back to back movies as I considered that resting. But the funny thing was I would then end up feeling more tired after a day of doing nothing/watching movies than a day at work!

     1. I agree James, we’ve actually made our entire lives about avoiding being with ourselves and that’s a lot of the reason why we don’t allow ourselves to stop and feel because we have an overarching theme of avoiding that very thing. It’s as if we’re galloping forwards all of the time, slightly ahead of ourselves and don’t ever allow ourselves the space to join ourselves in whatever it is that we’re doing which is why most of us stay oblivious to how we’re feeling. Feeling how we’re living is imperative to changing how we’re living because that’s where the motivation comes from. True revelations come from connecting to the truth of how we’re feeling and knowing that we need to fundamentally change something about the way that we’re living.

156. I am currently in a STOP moment having been sick recently and have found it difficult to really surrender. There has been a want to constantly distract myself to avoid feeling whatever it is that I have taken on that has caused the illness. My body is speaking loudly.

157. I read this blog yesterday and coming back to it again today as soon as I saw the title “STOP in the name of love” I knew that’s what my body wanted me to do and has been calling for for a long time. It’s not so much a physical stop, though today it is as I am exhausted from the build up / momentum of over thinking, checking out, rushing, drive, anxiety, in my body – from living in my head. That’s what is loving, being called for me to stop, even when unwell, I am thinking should I do this, or that, you know the non stop disco jockey in your head, instead of just downing tools, and loving myself.

158. The greatest stop moment is putting aside the routine of having to do ‘this’, ‘that’ or the ‘other’ and running yourself a bath!… Your body totally loves it when you put it first, listening to its need to stop for a moment…. instead of keep on doing… Self care though, is more than just taking a hot bath, it is remembering to put it first and honour oneself. The body then keeps loving you right back!

159. When we are caught up in the stress of the moment; a stop is not merely a cease of activity (however, it’s interesting we focus on this), but is instead putting a stop to the momentum causing the stress. We can then proceed with greater clarity and bring quality to what we are doing.

160. We do need stop moments, true stop moments, not the ones to check out. But the ones that is truly called for by our body, truly coming to the stillness that is within. It is revitalizing to really rest.

161. “STOP in the Name of Love!” just reading this title I can feel I need to stop giving myself a hard time. God, how often do we give ourselves a hard time, never truly stopping to really appreciate how awesome we are, and there are many many things to appreciate about ourselves, from the tiniest dot, to the grandest of things, they are all one and the same. From the fact people love speaking with us, love seeing us, like the way our hair looks, the dress we wear, how calm we are, to the immense power and love we bring to our work places, schools, our walk, our cute smile, our sexiness, our commitment to life, to relationships, or dedication, our support, right down to where we place our keys at night, there is so so much to appreciate about ourselves.

162. A timely read, I have a big day on today and have woken with a sore throat and flu like symptoms. I can feel it is asking me to go about the day in a different way to what I would have, where I need to be much more aware of and honouring of my body. A change I had been needing to make but had been resisting.

163. To me it is about surrendering to the wisdom and intelligence my body is living which will naturally make me stop when needed. I have to admit that I am not always there and then I feel lost in the relentlessness of my mind for which it is never enough and can always do better or more.

164. Such a beautiful succinct and poignant message Sarah; Stop in the name of love. As I move into the day this simple, but inspirational, message will be with me.

165. ‘And P.S. – the stuff got done! – Confirmation that taking the time to listen to our body and choose to be in the quality of ‘Love’ allows space for all that is to be – Thanks Sarah for this gorgeous reminder.

166. I can so relate to this blog with regards to taking time out to stop – my favourite is to have a nap in my car during my lunch break, it may only be ten minutes or twenty but I then feel ready for the next five hours of work. The alternative to this is to grab ten minutes eat my food quickly and then get back to work, which leaves me feeling hard from pushing my body. Having experimented with both of these I know which one supports me the most.

167. It feels so beautiful to connect to the ‘quality’ of how we live – and the power of this one word. It brings with it a deeper sense of connection, one that expands and brings a greater and more sustainable understanding of how we live life.

168. There seems to be a belief that if we stop or take time out for us that we are failures in some way, and that we will not complete our work or tasks on time, but actually the opposite seems to happen. Because from experience to not stop takes even more energy to ignore what the body is saying, and deep down we know it is not worth it and is ultimately at our expense.

169. wow, taking that time to rest when there is so much to get done is a big one for me. I have found that time evaporates and space expands when I do though…I know… blows science and all we know out of the window – but that is what I feel happens when I listen to my body and make space to rest.

170. I can relate to what you’ve described, Katie. And when you do finally slow down or stop, a deep sense of exhaustion overwhelms me – to the point where I feel I can’t even move! But so often I would push through, overriding that exhaustion….which is double exhausting! Today, I try not to get so caught up on time – it’s a work in progress, but when I look after myself first, time and task appears to wait.

171. In my experience, stopping is not always easy once I am in motion, in particular when I am taken by an e-motion. Yet, I have learned even then stopping is not difficult if you are presented with truth. The ability to feel truth is always there 100%. When the motion does not involve an e-motion, stopping is fairly simple for me. It only requires to granted permission to myself.

172. Stop in the Name of Love is still something I am learning to fully embrace, making it about my quality of energy all the time, and not about what needs doing.

173. I still find it hard to put a stop in my day. For the last 3 weeks I have worked 12-hour days without a rest. Maybe if I took a stop I might get more done!

174. When we don’t stop eventually something has to happen, we get tired, irritable, short tempered, or sick. To simply love ourselves enough to stop and think about the quality in which we are moving or working in gives us the opportunity to change the choices we are making.

175. ‘….STOP!’ and I got sick and was forced to stop and rest – often feeling like my body had betrayed me.’ That’s the idea a lot of people have and I had too, seeing illness in the light of betrayal of the body instead of seeing it as we are the ones having abandoned our body. And we keep on fighting it rather than listening and nurturing the body. To stop in an earlier stage is something we can learn by not listening to our mind, our momentum but honouring the body.

176. Stopping, really stopping is indeed, a forgotten art and a much needed one.

177. What comes to me as I read this is ‘Stop, in the name of love’.

178. “The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off. I simply rested because that was what my body was sharing with me it needed to do” – I really love this. It exposes how I have misunderstood my responsibility to be. If I just keep going and keep pushing myself no matter what my body is presenting, what quality am I actually bringing into the world with that?

179. I love the name of this blog ‘STOP in the name of Love’ and keep coming back to it to remind me of the importance of quality before quantity.

180. Sarah I like what you say “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” this make so much sense that the choices about my quality are as important as the output. If the quality is not there then the output is not true.

181. Stopping and resting allows us to reset and refresh, re-connect to ourselves when we have pushed past the body’s natural way or rhythm. There is a quality in our way of being that we can take to our doing when we honour the body and its messages. Great blog Sarah.

182. It is incredible in a crazy way, how we create these lists that we hold ourselves to having to complete at all costs, otherwise supposedly the world will fall apart. Yet always when we disregard what our bodies are signalling to us we miss out on the true guidance on offer to make choices that will support us best to move in a way and do what is needed to be done, with the quality of our presence at hand. Thank you Sarah for this valuable reminder.

183. So true Katie, not leaving ourselves less. I have noticed lately that when I go do a manual task such as sweeping or mopping, I often put the task ahead of me ‘to just get it done’ and then I will relax/be me afterwards. And when I do that, quite often when I do stop, I can feel the pain in my lower back as I had pushed though the task – putting me less than the task.

184. Wow it was lovely to re-read my words today and feel the quality in which I wrote this and the quality in which I stopped and to appreciate that I took that time. I felt my body come to more of a stop even reading this and be more in the moment and more with my body. Awesome.

185. What is shared is inspiring as it can be difficult to make sense of when we stop we end up with more space to complete our tasks as usually the script in our head is ‘ah I haven’t got time to stop” The added bonus is the quality of these movements after stopping is far more in regard of our bodies and each other. Thank you Sarah for sharing your learning and I’m sure it is a reminder and support for many others too!

     1. Hi Julie, it was a reminder and support for me today so I would say yes to that!

186. “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” It all brings it back to the good old saying “Quality over quantity,” for it matters little how much you do, but the way in which the movement to do that task has been completed. Pretty cool.

     1. Pretty cool indeed Kelly – thanks for the reminder of quality over quantity. It’s a good one.

187. Overriding the body is one of humans’ greatest flaws. We do it in so many ways and different extremes, but the bottom line is… the body is our way back to the heart and to the inner heart where all resides. When we attack and override our body we are attacking the origins of the Love we are from i.e the Universe.

     1. Ouch. That’s so true Rachael and whilst it is a bit ouch-ey, it is a good reminder that when we override/attack our bodies, we are attacking love. Check.

188. There are ‘stop moments’ and then there are Stop Moments – which are very different from each other. One is about checking out from life and escaping from the body into the mind. The other is about reconnection back to the essence of who you are. One can be achieved with television, food, wine, a holiday etc. and the other can be practiced my simply feeling the body and the breath passing in and out; or by appreciating the magnificence of who we are.

     1. Yes and isn’t it glorious to know the difference.

     2. The stop moments that most of us clamour to have in our lives (‘chilling out,’ having a smoke, having a drink, going to the cinema, reading a novel) aren’t true stop moments, they may masquerade themselves as stop moments but they are simply moments when the body is moving less than at other times but the energetic quality that is impulsing us remains the same because invariably when we have finished our ‘stop moment’ we simply pick up from where we left off before.

189. The most avoided and yet so needed Stop. I love how you have described its folly here Sarah.

190. A couple of weekends ago my period started and I took this time to deeply rest, the shift in energy in my body was immense – I returned to work on Monday with a whole new level of vitality and purpose. This shows we can choose to do this anytime, it doesn’t have to be when we have our periods, or our bodies are speaking super loud to us for we have been overriding them for so long. It can be a few minutes in the car, a stop at lunchtime, or even a walk after work.

     1. So true Gyl, because not always do we have the option to rest for a couple of hours so even a few minutes to stop and connect to you and your body is a good stop. I find that the Gentle Breath meditation is a good one to bring you back – http://www.unimedliving.com/meditation/free/meditation-for-beginners/introductory-gentle-breath-meditation.html.

191. We often have the belief that it’s selfish “to stop (for me),” but in truth we are stopping for the whole of humanity.

     1. Yes, that’s true and initially it can be challenging to over come the guilt of stopping but when we do everyone benefits.

192. It feels amazing to allow our bodies to deeply rest.

193. “I take the morning easy and rest in preparation for the big meeting I had around lunchtime.” There is an old pattern of drive in my body that if I don’t stay connected to myself I go into my head to get things done, rather than leading from the stillness and wisdom of my body, everything still gets done, but it comes with a quality of absolute purpose for people and joy.

194. So many times I have been in the energy of wanting to stop and have a rest but kept carrying on because I had things to do. The thing is, when in this energy and momentum of wanting to stop but not, the quality in which we do things in is … well a bit pants really and not that great. Leaving an imprint of being rushed and not honouring ourselves everywhere we go; which if we were honest about this would be pretty much be all of us during some part of the day! Also I have noticed how people actually use this energy as a way to get things done or even more insidiously to feel ‘good’ about themselves. Realing off long lists of what needs to be done and clearly in overwhelm but not wanting to accept help or stop. So it is great your friends felt this and expressed it but even greater that you honoured it, after all, how we live affects others so by you doing this on some level you are giving others somewhere else in the world space to do this for themselves to ✨ very cool.

195. This mental set that the world will fall apart if we stop is brilliantly exposed here Sarah. Thank you!

196. ‘ I am learning how to be with my body and listen to the wisdom it shares quietly, taking the moments to stop and be with my body and to nourish it.’ Beautifully said Sarah, making space for stop moments has been key to appreciating and deepening the relationship with myself and this supports me to bring appreciation to all areas of my life.

197. Sarah what an amazing article, one that needs to be read world wide by many time and time again, I started to read your blog early this morning yet my body was telling me to get some more rest. I felt myself override my body but then the more I read your blog the more I could not deny any more what I needed to do. A few hours later after a deeply nourishing sleep I came back to finish reading your blog,I was clearer and my body a lot happier after respecting the need for extra rest. Thank you Sarah for the oh so important reminder.

198. Yes, I too am choosing more and more to be present with my body and honour what it is saying, and stop moments are often part of this, and ‘I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.’

199. There is definitely great healing provided in the moments where we choose to stop and regather, allowing us to lovingly reimprint the next choice with the quality of that stop.

     1. Definitely and 100% accurate! I truly felt this when I was forced to rest after having surgery, my body had never felt better and I could not only feel it, but see it too. Looking in the mirror, my whole body felt joyful, it was gorgeous. The important part is to not go back to our old habits because that’s even more damaging.

200. How important too to stop to eat and/or drink not try to grab something on the run, so to speak. How can our bodies sort out all the nutrients from our food that will make up our blood if we compromise it so? The quality that we bring to our meals in the way we set out the food and the way we chew the food and what we engage in while we eat are all affecting us and contributing to the acceptance and appreciation by our bodies of that food – how well it is digested. How well can we digest life if we are continually doing and not giving quality and allowing space, if needs be, for a pause or even a stop if we need, to cut the energy we are in.

201. A simple and nourishing science it is to listen to our body and heed it’s Wisdom and Knowing.

202. “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” – I’d say the quality is more important than the actual output as it’s our quality that imprints everything we do.

203. Bringing to a halt the relentless momentum and drive I have found difficult and challenging, certainly a work in progress but something I am committed to gradually deepening. Without doubt I feel the benefits which then impact on all around me. Thank you Sarah for the gentle reminder to halt and stop with deep love, appreciation and tenderness.

     1. I know that for me if I’m not able to connect to the feeling of my breath coming gently in and out of my nose, then I haven’t truly stopped and that’s okay because it’s that level of honesty that supports me to make more changes. Being able to feel my gentle breath is an alignment, as is not being able to feel my gentle breath also an alignment. The choice is mine (as much as possible) as to what I choose to align to in any given moment.

204. It is amazing to me how hard it was to stop. After 6 years of commitment to slowing down I am starting to feel a difference now. I am feeling less racy and my body tension is less. IT FEELS AMAZING!

     I am also noticing how difficult it is for other people to stop. They are in constant motion. Along with everything around them.

     And with my commitment to slow down, I am supporting people to do the same.

205. Life without STOP moments is like driving round the track without pulling into the pitstop. We all need to have a checkup, re-oil and maintenance and it is loving to be honest with our bodies and feel where we are truly at.

     1. Well said Joshua, a life without STOP moments is so contra to our natural way – no matter how much coffee, tea and sugar we consume – this motion requires its equal and opposite for harmony to be restored.

206. Everyday I am learning about the rhythm of motion and repose. These two elements are in constant relationship with eachother, they live side by side in perfect harmony and when we allow that rhythm to be in our lives, it is like the universe itself has taken you in to its warmest embrace.

207. Stopping and checking how we are, how our energy is, is something that has not been valued enough. Making time to stop is important, and I agree that when I do stop, ‘The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off. I simply rested because that was what my body was sharing with me it needed to do.’

208. What I am learning is that stopping to listen to my body is very simple on one hand because the body is constantly communicating. But it can also be very confronting to the energy within me, that I would say is a part of me but am now questioning that ownership, that ignores this communication and gets itself hurt in the process. How this plays out is in disconnection – the mind has many words and when focusing on this chatter, the body hardens. In connection to the body, paying attention to the wordless feelings, these tensions that fuel the ‘can’t stop, keep going’ train are exposed and when we let go of those tensions we feel freer to move and breath without restriction. Lifes tasks then don’t feel like a pressure or chore.

209. Bringing a balance to the seemingly constant actions in life is possible when stop moments are enjoyed in full and the day flows effortlessly.

210. Sarah a great reminder for us to be more aware of our body and lovingly listen to it, there is great wisdom available to us through our body and when it asks for a rest, we need to look at how we have been running our life for it to be requesting some rest.

211. How often do we override our body’s request to stop, and continue thinking we just need to push through, but do we ever stop and ask what this does to our body.

212. The title of this blog brings back memories, from an old Diana Ross & The Supremes song. I much prefer the message and energy of this blog, ‘ I stopped in the name of love (for me)’, to the message of her song, ‘Stop! In the name of love Before you break my heart…’.

213. We haven’t been supported, trained or raised from when we were young in our lives to stop when feeling tired or run down. Working hard is said to be a good thing, but usually at the expense of the body – and eventually our health.

214. I love that your friends made the suggestion for you to stop and take a rest and supported you in getting there.

215. I have not been well for the last few days. I have been trying to carry on as normal and ignoring my body’s signals to slow down. I finally stopped yesterday and have been allowing myself to rest. The pattern in me that wants to keep going and push through is strong, but one I am working on.

     1. I’m currently going through the same thing. Yesterday and today, I got to bed early and slept an hour longer than I normally do – and I feel so much better. But it hasn’t and can’t stop there. It’s about taking care of myself in everything I do in my day as well.

216. Learning to stop brings into the spotlight, how we can spend our whole lives not ever stopping, barrelling along from one imposed deadline, drama, situation to the next – and learning to see how we set up this momentum to not have to stop and feel something. But when we finally make that choice we realise that feeling what comes up is the first step to healing and being truly free of its impost on our lives. It is worth allowing ourselves that gift of understanding and awareness.

217. An all too well known phenomenon – I’ll stop when I get there, but first I need to do this and this and this … And then we never get there and there is never a stop, the madness just keeps going on and we are its seemingly hapless victims. You make it clear that we have a choice, every time it happens.

218. Thanks for sharing this Sarah. I have just been ill which has given me an opportunity to truly stop. At first I tried to push through a bit because I had things that needed to be done. However, when I actually took the stop, I allowed my body to truly rest and heal.

219. I did a whole ‘push through keep at it’ thing yesterday and my body called out really loudly – the tension bubbling to a shivery feeling all over my skin – there was then a tussle with my head saying ‘never matter push on’, but in the breaking of a long pattern of behaviour I called a ‘stop’. A change of activity, some conscious presence as I moved and I know my day was able to complete without the familiar fall out and poor decisions towards the end.

220. My body is calling for a big solid stop these days so that I mostly can sit/lie and feel me and my connection. In the past I was watching TV when I was ill, but now I don’t do so and find me in a true stop. Even we never stop totally because the world doesn’t, it turns, our bodies breathe and our heart beats – I can come to a moment of stillness and repose. It is like I am with what I’ve done till now instead of doing already the next thing/action. So I am just with my choices so far and the world turns…and I see how this is. I can appreciate and I can realize what is to renounce for my next move to unfold even more of my divinity.

221. I can feel the tension in working on a task when I need to stop, and when I do stop and rest I come back to the task and it is always easier. And the time factor is illusionary as the tension creates further stress about how long a job will take to do, but having committed to resting, that tension of time is just no longer there.

222. I’m in the middle of a huge time at the moment… and yet it is the space that I feel which enriches it. When its gets compressed by the mountain of things to do I know I’m getting it wrong. No longer am I enjoying what I have chosen, and that lack starts to stain every choice, every thing done. So it’s the space, often embellished by a stop, that makes it all worthwhile.’

223. The quality of input determines the quality of output

224. I love how life presents what we need to learn, and if we are not listening the body will support us even if it means getting ill or breaking a bone to slow us down and take a STOP in the Name of Love!

225. Life has a momentum that we can easily jump on board in fear of getting left behind. I remember a time in my life, if you weren’t ‘ really busy’ and your diary overflowing with work and social events you were a bit of a ‘social tragic’. That was what being involved in a dynamic life was then, but now I clearly see it was designed to avoid our hurts and not feel our deep disconnection to ourselves and others. Clearly that was empty, totally void of connection to the body and the love that is there for us all to feel in the quality we are in simply being in life, and listening to our bodies.

226. Giving ourselves stop moments as you say Sarah is like giving ourselves a big warm hug, and our bodies love it, as we are then confirming in our choice to move in this way a stronger commitment to being all of who we are.

227. Re-reading my blog and re-reading through the comments, I can see how much we don’t stop and how important it is to stop. And how many momentums are running our lives. Way too many. I love how so many people are starting to look at this and bring more stops (in the name of love) into their lives.

228. Our body can be considered as our best friend, is always there, always listens to every thought that passes our mind – why not treat our best friend with love and care?

229. Stop in the name of love ! I love this as it is so true and an essential way of living that is obvious when we stop to feel and not get caught up in our doing and the pressures of life. Listening to our bodies is so honouring and amazing and offers us the wisdom and understanding of what is going on that we are being offered Thank you Sarah for showing the quality of life we can all share if we choose it.

230. So much better I feel to have these stop moments to restore and reconnect rather than over ride the messages our bodies are constantly communicating and manifest illness and exhaustion.

231. These stop moments allow us the time to truly feel what quality we have been moving and living in, allowing a space for re connection and a return to the bodies innate knowing of how to be in harmony.

232. It is so true that we often tire or deplete ourselves not because of type of task or the amount of tasks we have to do, rather than it is the quality of the energy that we are working or moving in that drains us.

     1. Absolutely. I can work for longer and more productively if I am not pushing, rushing or ignoring moments when my body says ‘stop’.

     2. Obligation and resentment often fuel our daily tasks, such as going to work, making dinner, doing homework with kids. How different would it be if we did everything with enjoyment? I wonder how our health would be after a year?

233. It is interesting Sarah how often when we do finally stop in our momentums of doing that we still distract with substances or activities in order not to truly feel the quality of the energy we have been living in. So in many ways it is not a true stop moment to restore ourselves and return to a quality of harmony but a moment to check out.

234. When we neglect our body’s signals, pushing through and overriding, neglecting and driving it – the body reads this as a form of abuse and attack and it is no surprise to end up with inflammation and auto-immune conditions. So how would it be if instead we were to fully honour what the body is asking of us, confirming its wisdom, how much differently we could live in our bodies.. and how differently our bodies could support us. What if we didn’t have to live with discomfort and pain..that this does not necessarily have to be an inevitable consequence of ‘getting old’. What if there were an even greater form of living that is on offer to us, if we but gave it the chance to be.

235. Learning to stop allows a check-in to the quality that we are bringing to all that we do, if we are racy, rushed, stressed, then that quality is feeding into everything that we do, into our whole day, and impacting on everything around us. So learning to stop and see that false quality allows us to make a choice of the next step being in a quality that is true, is loving, and in respect of the all. This is something I had never before considered, yet if we all made this choice, how this would change everything.

236. It is so easy to go into this spin and story, and addressing one aspect of it, then another will sneak its way in – so then there is the question of why do we insist on keeping ourselves in that spin… sometimes it is to not feel a truth that we don’t want to feel, a hurt that we have buried, a tension of a world at odds with what we know to be true – and how we have done our part in contributing to that ill way.. However none of this will be truly healed unless we make the choice to stop and see and feel clearly what our Soul is offering us to understand, and with this the offering of stepping into a greater responsibility in living what is true.

237. My resistance of a stop moment uses up a lot more time and energy than surrendering to it. Surrendering to a stop moment leaves what lies ahead spacious and seemingly effortless.

238. What effort we can put into overriding the wisdom of our body and what is needed in any moment with our mind’s ideas and pictures when the true is simply felt and even simpler to put into practice.

239. Listening to our body is so simple yet as you share, when acted upon can change everything and truly support us.

     1. Listening to my body is like having a constant, unwavering, reliable and deeply wise counsel at my side always.

240. This is very true – the quality in which we are is everything. We can move and do all we like but in what energy are we doing so?

     1. Prior to Universal Medicine, I never would have even really given that much thought. Energetic quality and energetic quality was something a bit strange, hippy and far fetched. But it’s not, its quite simple and Serge Benhayon presents it in a very simple and practical and accessible way.

        1. As an example of quality, we can also think about the quality of our work when we are tired and exhausted, compared to when we are feeling rested, vital and energised. The quality of work that we do represents the quality of our body and our state of being, both of which deserve as much care and attention as the job that needs to get done.

241. One thing is for sure. Pushing on when you are tired is not only unproductive in the short term, but in the long term leads to a decrease in vitality, which in itself can create a cycle of anxiety, tension, and further exhaustion. Best when you are tired to stop and recover, and get yourself back into condition, at least where you can.

     1. Good advice there Adam.

242. Hello Sarah and obviously or not the title takes me to that song of the same name. Not that we should get lost in that song, it just sings when I read the blog. A great blog that supports in many areas and an important one to come back too as it’s revealed today. There is nothing more important then the moment you are in as everything you are is there with you. It seems this is an ongoing lesson for me and one I understand deeper today.

     1. Yes me too Ray. There is nothing more important but so often we make everything else more important. It is indeed a loving work in progress.

243. I used to push until something was complete and collapse with a satisfied exhaustion. This way of operating made me completely miserable and a bit of a control freak. Stopping has helped me to learn to ask for help and focus on the quality of what I am doing and to not push consequently I am getting so much more done, without the exhaustion.

     1. Totally relate Nicole….I can feel control’s grip on me lessening as I ask for support and stop more and more in the name of love.

244. It’s so important that we take moments to ‘fully stop’ otherwise we are in a continuous driving motion, action, push or rush that can only lead to consequences on our bodies. Not until during pregnancy have I fully allowed myself to really stop and what I found is that these moments are deeply and profoundly healing because they are moments of simplicity, space, grace and quite frankly of ‘me being with me’; with nothing to do, nowhere to go and no other choice to make other than ‘what do I feel to do next?’. There is a quality that is equally important in our ‘being in life’ as it is in our ‘doing in life’ and bringing our focus here, as you have done Sarah shows a profound choice and willingness to explore that we just don’t see happen very often around us.

     1. Just being with yourself, with no other distraction or job to do is something that a lot of people find very difficult. Interesting though however to think that we are never with anyone else, but ourselves, no matter what we are doing.

245. Do we stop when our minds are satisfied that we have done enough or do we stop when our bodies are telling us to? They are very different in my experience and lead to very different outcomes.

     1. Great point Andrew – we often only stop when we have done enough as a reward and not because our bodies are asking us too.

246. There is a responsibility to resting just as much as there is a responsibility to the activities of daily life. Therefore, when we are exhausted is this not showing us the irresponsibility we have been living in? And if this is so, what about all the illness and disease that is happening around the world caused by a lack of due care and rest that the human body so dearly needs? Does this not show us the global epidemic that is the need to push and keep going when there is time to stop and rest? The nervous system of the human body can only take so much before it begins to frazzle and fray, and as one who knows this path very very well, I can attest to the fact that although all those seemingly innocent and good-minded choices to keep going may appear easy and harmless at the time, it can take a very long time to recover once your body has reached its point of collapse.

     1. A responsibility to rest Shami – love it!

247. I have been coming back to read this blog many times because I have been trying to practice these loving stop moments throughout my day. But what I have realised is that I start out in the morning saying to myself I will implement these stop moments but by the end of the day I look back and realised I haven’t honoured what I felt to do in the morning. It seems so easy to get carried away with the same momentum, and forgetting to reconnect to myself. So, reading your blog simply lovingly reminds me to STOP in the name of love.

     1. Yes Chan, it is a loving work in progress. Even becoming aware that of the resistance is a good sign – because from there you can look at the reasons why.

248. Knowing when to rest is vital for our true well being, just like night and day.

     1. And brushing our teeth, putting out the bins, going to work – it needs to be part of our days. Not just relegated to the end of the day when we fall in a heap.

249. Stopping in the name of Love – love the title of your blog Sarah, with a message we can never exhaust. We are so much more important than a list of have to do’s, and I know we all know this…. and still it is in the honouring and quality we are going about what we are doing which can either leave us exhausted or remaining with ourselves. I am getting a bit of practice at the moment in helping others move, and moving myself.

     1. I love the title too.. and you are so right Victoria, we are so much more important that our list of to do’s. And when we take great care of ourselves, we can do so much more.

250. Learning to truly ‘stop’ and reconnect is essential, we can physically stop but still be going a million miles on the inside and do things that stimulate us further rather than help us re-gather. How we are in those moments when we bring our attention to resting or stopping makes all the difference.

     1. Stopping on the inside, addressing the racing mind and just becoming still can seem like a challenge in the face of the busy nature of life. When I do take the time to connect with my self within, my day feels far more lovely and all the tasks I have to complete are far more enjoyable.

251. And when we make a choice to truly stop, we begin to open a door to a quality of stillness that speaks to us of a whole new dimension to life. Once we make the choice to walk through that door, our lives are changed forever.

252. When we allow our self to stop, connect and care for our self our productivity increases tenfold

     1. Especially our efficiency, our impact and, actually, our joy as well!

        1. Yes Christoph and Mary-Louise, very true.

253. The other day I was doing stuff and felt my self getting a little racy, I stopped, and wrote in my our cycle app and gave my self a breast massage. I totally re-connected with my self, changed the momentum I was in, and continued with my work in a very still energy and got heaps done.

     1. And that’s how it’s done 😉 awesome Mary-Louise – very inspiring.

254. A ‘stop-moment’ is a moment to confirm and prepare to build more.

     1. Yes Sandra, we build in one, appreciate it, confirm its beauty and then we can build in more.

        1. Yes Sarah, the appreciation and confirming makes what we’ve build before solid.

255. I learned that a ‘stop’ can be very short – a moment I close my eyes and connect to my breath & body or 10 Minutes with an eye pillow on the sofa and I am more deeply connected and fresh again.

256. Wow, In me comes up the question not only how to stop but how to appreciate, love and nurture myself deeply despite the workloath? So there are some beliefs and ideals around this which say how I have to be, also the expectation of others how I should be, which are distracting and so I want to live up to an expectation instead of being me.

257. These little stop moments are so vital for us as a reminder to come back to ourselves so we can stay connected to the love we are rather than pushing through and overriding what we know and feel in order to get things done. A very timely blog and great reminder Sarah, thank you.

258. When you say that you didn’t know how to stop, Sarah, I feel this is what I kept telling myself for many years – that is until I began to really listen to the words of Serge Benhayon and understand that I truly do have choices. Even knowing this it has still taken me a few more years to let go of my stubbornness, and to feel how harmful it is when I constantly over ride the messages sent by my body telling me that it’s time to take a stop moment – in the name of love. At last I am beginning to feel the benefit of stopping and allowing my body to let go of the drive and return to it’s natural flow and rhythm. With this marker in my body I can now build more trust that I am enough without the constant doing.

259. Another beautiful reminder Sarah, thank you. Stop in the name of love; for self and thus all equally so; is at times such a challenge for me. However, through some very significant health issues and ‘strange’ circumstances I am learning to be more consistent in stopping and bringing a quality to the love I offer myself and others.

260. This is so true for me. It has taken me a long time to learn and there have been so many things I have pushed on through just to get done and then felt the quality of how I have completed them and felt to redo them anyway. Not to mention the disregard I felt in my body after doing life this way. Slowly but surely I am developing a more loving, nurturing and honest relationship with myself and naturally this reflects in my relationships with others.

261. “I am learning how to be with my body and listen to the wisdom it shares quietly, taking the moments to stop and be with my body and to nourish it.” Me too Sarah. I have now come to understand that I never truly listened to my body until it was in crisis, that is, until it was so sick or so painful that I had to stop. Now, I am learning to listen to the subtle messages that my body gives me rather than forcing it to shout to be heard. I have found that this is much more supportive of me, my body and my entire life.

262. A timeless reminder, I could read this everyday! It is like re-learning to read the body’s communication to me.

263. To get caught up in doing with no regard for quality feels like driving a car out of control that inevitably ends in a crash – making a mess of things that requires a stop to correct or getting ill so you have to stop – or you continue at the peril of your health.

264. What’s so lovely about this article is bringing it back to quality. I realise many times I can stop and connect like lying in bed when I wake up but I too easily chose to start thinking about the day ahead and get caught up in predicted stresses that my body starts to react to. What about bringing the beautiful quality of me I connect to on waking and bringing that to my day? Noticing when I choose stress and simply returning each time.

265. “ . . .these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” This is a key statement Sarah. Quality not quantity.

266. It does indeed become very hard to stop when we build up such a momentum, Sarah. Even if we do physically stop we can still be on a roll inside with our nervous system wired and the doing still happening in the head. This gives the body no true pause. Once we switch to being with ourselves when we do stuff it is easier to make a true pause in the activity and dip into a refreshing moment of replenishment. And working in this way there is not so much need for a break because there is a constant connection with our being and we are being totally where we are with no projection forward or back, nowhere we’d rather be and time expands into space.

267. Taking the time to stop and connect during the day makes a huge difference to how we sleep, and it would seem the tension we hold in our bodies.

268. It’s so easy to get caught in a momentum and let ourselves run with it. Stopping and feeling what is actually true makes space for love, and from there we can make a true choice.

269. A brilliant reminder and confirmation about how purposeful taking care, a stop moment, resting can be. I certainly spot that the more I take care of myself and respond to what my body truly needs the more productive and consistent I am.

270. I am amazed by the number of ideals and beliefs I have held around stopping and whether I am allowed to “down my tools” for a moment or not. The fact is that when we don’t have a balanced rhythm of stopping from time to time and this could be through moments of contemplation, reflection, completing and reviewing the quality of our “doing” is impacted.

271. How we do what we do is super important just as much as getting things done per se! And taking a rest or moment to reconnect can often make us more productive…

272. I have found myself pondering on trying to stop in the name of Love, when it is Love that we so often reject. The beauty of introducing simple loving choices one at a time being that a foundation of these can develop, from which we have the support to challenge other choices which are not loving.

273. Stop in the name of love and stop so that we can be love,tenderly and graciously with ourselves and others. This is the lesson that I learnt from reading your blog Sarah, powerful indeed thank you.

274. In the end we get reminded that we only do the doing to cover up feeling that we don’t want to feel.

275. How important is body awareness or union with our bodies which is brings in the teaching of Esoteric Yoga as presented by Serge Benhayon to bring clarity to our next step in life. After 12 years of studying the Esoteric way of life and The Livingness my feeling is that the more I listen to and feel my body the greater strides I make on the evolutionary path of return!

276. I know from my own experience that when I focus on the job, I can get loads done. It can sometimes be tricky though to be aware that we can get into the habit of doing so much when there seems to be a lot to do instead of allowing ourselves the break we would give to others to take time to keep the balance. By choosing moments to be more present in the body, the awareness definitely grows to become aware of our rhythm and accept the stop moments gracefully. Thank you Sarah, the reminder is vey timely.

277. It is amazing how when we choose to stop, rest and regroup and not push through pain to get things done and complete, that 1. our world doesn’t crash or implode and 2. that we usually do what we need to do with love, and grace and enjoying the process. I too am relearning the process of taking time out to rest and reconnect in the world of doing, leaving me feeling energised and not drained after long hours and heavy work loads.

278. I’m reading this blog and feeling that I know this to be true an to have experienced it on a number of occasion however I also know that I do not do this every time I feel the impulse to and that it is not fully a part of the way of live. This blog is therefore a welcome reminder of the power we have in our daily choices to change the way we are living.

279. I love this blog – so needed right now for me to remember how important taking care of myself is.

280. On re-reading this blog I felt a raciness in my body that made me stop and have a look at and discovered that it is not only important to stop but also be in a stillness while doing things!
     My feeling is after studying the presentations of Serge Benhayon for the last 12 years my body is still sharing fundamentals about life and stillness and I am only now open to listen.

281. Thank you for sharing these precious moments of deep rest; at times it feels to me as though I am letting a program run me that postulates: I’ll stop when I get there – but then, I never really get there because the next ‘there’ is already there, and so on it goes. A very crazy and unhealthy way to live for sure, totally at the expense of the body and our mental and emotional wellbeing.

282. To me, after simply learning to exercise my right to say ‘no,’ which is really me saying a ‘yes’ to a stopping moment, is what has changed many things in my life; it brings a stop moment that is so needed. After 12 years of listening to the presentations by Serge Benhayon, I now ‘stop and in the name of love’. I am still a ‘loving work in progress because some days I still override the need to stop. I am, however, choosing more and more to be present with my body, listening to what it is saying and stopping when it is needed’.

283. It really is ironic, that the more we stop and take true care of ourselves when our bodies call for it, the more we are able to do. This where our minds can be so ‘clever’ and trick us into thinking that what we think is more important than what we feel, whereas in truth it is in fact the other way round.

284. Cutting that never ending roll of ‘to do’ lists is quite an awesome achievement. The more we manage to do this, the more we are able to just remain with our bodies and focus on the quality of task in hand, consequently it conserves energy and ironically, the more we are able to deliver.

285. Funny but true Sarah, totally related to your reaction to other’s suggestions to take time out – “I am pretty sure that I scoffed at the idea – “Are you for real? I have too much to do! Have you not seen my to-do list?”” I’ve found though since Universal Medicine and Esoteric Yoga, that the quality in which I do something really does support me hugely to work through tasks – without the drive or exhaustion I once used to tackle my ‘to do’ list.

286. Thank you Sarah, I too have learnt to be aware of my body and listen to its needs through Universal Medicine, which has made a huge difference on my capacity to work. Checking in and stopping if needed during busier times I find is absolutely necessary and makes a big difference to the quality of my work and my body.

287. “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.”A beautiful reminder and so confirmative on the real benefit of stopping and the joy and appreciation that comes from this with everything as part of the whole we are.

288. ‘life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something’ – this is so true. When we bring the quality of our presence to what we do, joyfulness is precisely what we experience.

289. How funny it is that we believe the world will fall apart if we stop for a while. It reminds me of a time when I took a couple of weeks off work and went back expecting to find carnage – which of course there wasn’t. Perhaps I was overly attached to my own importance and secretly wanted there to be carnage to prove my worth.

290. The world is convinced that we won’t get (enough – what is enough?) things done if we take moments to care for ourselves. Could it be that this belief is actually serving us as we don’t have to stand still and feel the exhaustion if not depletion we’re in. I see a lot of people around me that actually ‘produce’ more when they choose to look after their body. Personally I love feeling me within my body and enjoying whatever I do with me.

291. The equality between what I put out and the quality I do it is the key, otherwise the action loses its power and purpose, it is just done in function. Functionality leads to illness and exhaustion as we can observe in our society.

292. Sarah- I can relate to your story of just wanting to do one more thing before stopping because of the endless “to do list” we give ourselves. But as you have shown that by actually stopping – in the name of Love, for yourself first, you were in a better frame of mind and your body was well rested and then in a better position to tackle what was needed. Great reminder for me today, to do just that- STOP, breathe gently and reconnect.

293. True friends respect and allow moments to stop, reflect and nourish ourselves.

294. Sometimes I distract myself and then it takes longer to get things done and if I truly pay attention, I’ve done it because my body is tired and needs to rest. The distraction can drain my energy more, not recover it, so it really is good to simply STOP and breathe gently and reconnect.

295. ‘I have also learnt the importance of taking care of myself, and through the healing modalities of Universal Medicine’. The healing modalities of Universal Medicine are very simple, and extremely powerful. Why, one might wonder, isn’t everybody embracing them with open arms when they are the greatest support on our way back ‘home’? One of the main reasons is because our ‘space’ is taken up with the racy, ‘do do’ momentum and we think we cannot stop to feel or hear that the modalities are there waiting for us. The restlessness is like a closed circuit that doesn’t allow us to be aware – so it is so important to choose to stop. Great article Sarah!

296. There can be a tendency to need to run the body down in order to feel we have been working hard and the phrase “I was so exhausted” being used almost as a compliment or brag, because of wanting to be perceived as working to exhaustion as if it means being so dedicated. This follows a psyche that believes pain is necessary to gain and that nothing gets done unless there is struggle. So it is important to read and have expressed the simple fact that giving up this belief and working with our bodies instead of with a force that creates exhaustion in them, things can get done with more quality and efficiency without pain or struggle.

297. Sarah, I love what you have said here: “I am learning how to be with my body and listen to the wisdom it shares quietly, taking the moments to stop and be with my body and to nourish it.”
     To stop when we are so busy seems like the craziest thing ever, but sometimes it is the most needed thing ever!

298. I used to only stop when everything was done. In a job when things are never completely complete I am learning I cannot live without letting something stay where it is until I am actually looking at it. Otherwise I am making myself ill with the constant motion of letting thoughts and energy keep on running my body.

     1. Yes, it means we use our stamina instead of being all that we are.

299. The tension that can be generated, held in our bodies and passed through whatever we are doing in the push to complete is painful. Painful to hold in the body, stressful on our nervous system and those receiving the outcome of the push to complete and ultimately exhausting, all taking more time and energy than honouring in the first place and taking a break to rest and re-connect and start a fresh.

300. With each stop moment we deepen our connection through confirmation. To be able to truly stop is a movement faster than light!

301. When I stop and really give myself the opportunity to connect I can connect to how delicate I am and this fills me with appreciation. This supports me as I go through my day and is something I can always choose to re-connect to at any moment if I forget or go hard!

302. Reading this blog always makes me stop and reflect on how i am feeling.

303. I have also noticed that it is just about impossible to stop when we are identified with our output rather than the quality we bring to everything we do.

304. When we value the quality of energy in which we feel in our body moment to moment, stopping becomes a priority when we feel anything less than the beauty of who we are.

305. I have noticed in the last couple of days how tired I am and that I have given myself very little space to recognise that and honour my body. We were asked today at work if anyone of us would like to take a couple of days annual leave in the next few weeks as there were too many of us on on the roster. I havent felt the need to use my leave much this year so it felt like perfect timing. I said “yes please” and that feels great. Making that space and honouring my body throughout the day whist working is equally as important.

306. As I am reading this Sarah, I am pondering on why it is we don’t stop. Why is it we choose to disregard our feelings and keep going, ignoring the feelings of tiredness or overwhelm. For me, one reason could be ‘what would others think of me if I don’t get the job done?’, or wanting to be liked or to impress, or seen to be good or nice, helpful, useful or clever, or not wanting to be rejected, which actually means the same thing, because if we loved ourselves more it wouldn’t matter what people thought and we wouldn’t need them to like us, It comes back to the level of love and respect we have for ourselves first.

307. Sarah – I love how you now appreciate the importance of stop moments – they are in fact not time off but rather allowing ourselves the space to connect back with our bodies. And so when we are back in doing things, we’ve allowed ourself the stop to be with our bodies in what we do. The relationship with our bodies is so often overlooked but it is so important that there is one – that we appreciate, listen and respond.

308. One thing I have noticed is how I can go into output rather than quality when I am working through my list of ‘to dos’. It is as if when I see how much has to be done I think I have to keep going and I forget it is very possible at any point to take a stop moment in the name of love.

309. It is amazing how we resist these stop moments when the truth is they feel gorgeous, nurturing and restorative.

310. It is amazing that most of us are raised to think that output is more important than the quality we bring to what we do. It is only when we choose quality that we begin to see the falsity of this.

311. ‘I awoke with a renewed sense of care and love for myself.’ Now this shows just what happens when we listen to our body and respond to its call to stop and rest.

312. All of our ‘pushing through’ is at the expense of the body and all of our stopping is in honour of it.

313. Each and every one of us knows how to stop because it is a natural part of our body’s way of taking care of itself. No wonder there is so much illness and disease, if we are continuing to override this innate natural way, with a continuous drive that is in contrast to what all of nature does. Each day has an ebb and flow of activity and repose which we can see happening all around us all of time. The only thing that we have to do therefore is to listen to our bodies, because they actually do know how to live like this.

314. Making stops during the day even if they only may seem like a moment gives me the opportunity to ponder and reflect on my previous choices and also to feel what is going on in my body.

315. Listening to my body and making a stop during the day is helping me enormously to enjoy my day with the consistency of more vitality. I am getting to know when my body needs rest and more often than not I listen because simply the quality of energy is not great.

316. Sarah, I love what you are sharing here, ‘The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off. I simply rested because that was what my body was sharing with me it needed to do’, I can feel how there can be a lot of guilt around stopping to rest, there is the idea that we must keep going and for me personally that if I am seen to be sat down feet up or lying down that this is somehow lazy and irresponsible, so for me it is knowing how honouring it is to listen to my body and not go into my head listening to all the thoughts telling me to just do this or that and being pressured by time to complete the endless lists of things to do.

317. I just made two stops. The first, to get up from my desk, go into my bedroom and begin to gently choose clothes to pack in a suitcase. I left that job unfinished and came back, sat at my desk to work on my laptop, and stopped again. This time when I stopped I went within, I simply sat with me, before reading or touching the keyboard, and as I sat, my body spoke to me, I listened. With this I realised when I’m in a mad rush and absorbed in an excess of mental energy I often don’t hear, or disregard my body when it speaks to me.

318. If we feel our body has betrayed us, are we then saying ‘truth has betrayed us and not protected us from the consequences of not listening’?

319. Sarah the joy of stop moments in our lives allows us to nourish and rejuvenate every particle of our being and that feels pretty good to me.

320. “often feeling like my body had betrayed me.” – this is a very common approach in society when it comes to describe the relationship with our body. Our body just has to function and if it doesn’t, we’re tend to blame either our body, ourselves or something outside of us. Rather then just reading the message our body is sharing with us. If we’re blaming, we’re not listening, let alone appreciating. The more I am with my body, the more I am able to feel me and am able to appreciate both myself, my body and everything and everybody around me. The connection to our body is indeed crucial – super crucial!

321. Wonderful coming back to your blog after I have had a few days of saying to myself ‘but I can’t stop. There is all this stuff to be done and it has to be done today’. And that seemed the truth of the situation in that moment. All those things did need to be done and they could not be put off. But all of a sudden I saw that the reason I was in that predicament was because I had not listened to what my body and impulse had said much earlier. So I had procrastinated and delayed on what should have been done before. And now I was trying to save the day by pushing through and getting it all done, and I could easily blame the circumstance, but I had to face that this was an issue I had cause myself and there was a learning in that. Stop in the name of love and see really what is going on!

322. It’s odd that stopping can be such a challenge, yet when we do there is nothing lovelier, or more honouring!

323. We are so obsessed with ‘getting ahead’ but we are always behind, lacking in time, like there should be an extra day added in the week to allow us to ‘catch up’. So absolutely Sarah, stopping this pursuit and manic chase seems like a crazy thing to do – we will loose the race! and isn’t this the telling remark? For we all are conducting a marathon battle with time every day. These stops moments you describe go to show that time isn’t actually the true measure of life we think it is, but quality is.

324. That push to over ride the tiredness I know all too well Sarah, to do what I wanted to do rather than listen to my body. Universal Medicine gave me a different understanding of a way of living that supports me to not over ride, taking those stop moments and bringing in more love to my life, my body, in the way I take care of myself, lovingly , tenderly. It certainly does make the day go more smoothly and everything still gets done ,with stop moments.

325. I have noticed I go into this right before bed – it’s like having a switch off moment where I have been working and on it all day, and when I should be having true wind down time, I go into trying to either get a million things done, or procrastinating on social media – both of which are keeping me from what I really need to do which I wind down and rest – the perfect moment to say to myself ‘stop in the name of love’

326. What a great example of allowing ourselves to stop..The world didn’t fall apart or end because you took two hours off. That you were able to go about the day much more openly and easily is a great experience, and one that reinforces for me the importance of ‘stop’ when my body’s asking for it.

327. ‘I got sick and was forced to stop and rest – often feeling like my body had betrayed me’ – when our bodies have to step in and create a ‘stop’ for us, preventing us from spinning even further out of control with busyness we often get frustrated that they’re NOT supporting us and are instead ‘betraying us’. The truth is that our bodies are doing the total opposite, and there’s actually so much to appreciate about how they help us to look after ourselves and don’t allow us to spin totally out of control.

328. Stop moments are great for bringing in perspective. When life is go, go, go we can get lost in the motions.

329. When we honour the cycle that our body reveals to us and take heed and stop when they call us to we are practising self-love.

330. Not knowing how to stop is one of the biggest tricks we have been deceived by… and even when we do stop in the overwhelm and spin of so much on, our bodies are still running a million miles an hour on the inside. So the exhaustion continues and the effectiveness continues to drop. To truly restore and rebuild we need to learn a quality of repose that confirms and rejuvenates – so that we can take the next steps in a true quality that is then held in all of our actions thereafter.

331. ‘But through Universal Medicine’s presentations, I am learning how to be with my body and listen to the wisdom it shares quietly, taking the moments to stop and be with my body and to nourish it.’ Universal Medicine has taught me what a true ‘stop’ is , and what true nurturing looks and feels like, which was miles away from resembling the love I treat myself with now.

332. ‘ I am learning to bring to a halt the relentless momentum that I have been living with that makes it difficult for me to stop.’ I am still finding it difficult to release myself from certain momentums. Only a couple of days ago I did not listen to my body and stayed on the phone for 4 hours with an Internet provider to trying to re-estabish my out going mail. My body was saying stop stop stop but I was saying ‘I must get this done otherwise the email Inbox will be un-handlable! I am now paying the price not listening to my body. I would love to be able to say ‘lesson learnt’ . . .

333. ‘these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.’ I have noticed in the shop when packing up things for people that the quality in which I do this reflects the relationship that I have with the customer. I am also learning to accept absolutely when a customer somehow feels irritated or out of sorts, sometimes rude or whatever, again it is my feeling my own quality and staying steady that allows me to continue to be love in these situations.

334. What drives us to push on, ignoring the messages our body is giving us? Could it be that this drive is of things outside of us? Why would we override what our body is telling us? Are we not putting our thumb on the scales for others before self? Life just flows when things are in their proper balance.

335. When we realise how much we push ourselves into the ground and what a pandemic in behaviour this is it begs the question as to why we have allowed this to be the norm and as to the need that drives it. It simply doesn’t make sense, unless of course we understand that in disconnecting from the love that we are we become desperate for recognition, which is the next best thing to love. Add to this a plethora of ideals and beliefs and we have cooked up a very unhealthy non-stop momentum! I love the practical examples given here of how to arrest this and to re-connect to that love we are so utterly craving.

336. “But something inside of me was asking me to go deeper with this and neither gloss over what I was feeling, nor what was being suggested to me, as I had done in the past.”
     This is a statement which in itself is a stop. To appreciate ones own feelings, and to open oneself up to get an understanding about one’ s feelings and making the next step in this quality of knowing even if the next step is new and just guided by the body.

337. I asked a child to ‘Stop’ and he also didn’t know how to as this had not been taught to him. Teaching others the tools to stop and stay with the body is such a valuable life skill.

338. “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” This is what I am learning more and more each day that my quality in everything is so important. If my quality is out it has a ripple effect on everything else.

339. “The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off.” This is something that I am learning. It is so easy to make it all so very complicated and imagine all sorts of constraints that stop us from simply taking care of our self so that we can sustain a body that runs with love, joy, harmony and tenderness and can offer the world these qualities. Yet whenever my back has been against the wall, I have had to put it to the test (yes it still often takes that much) I am amazed at how open and agreeable people can be.

340. Simply in appreciation of those who offer us a consistent reflection of Love when we are choosing otherwise.

341. There’s so much joy in surrendering to the body, observe everything that’s going on in and around me. Whenever I’m in a driving mode, I’m actually running away from the fact that I’ve chosen to disconnect from who I am.

342. We often use eating as an excuse to stop although we don’t really need the food, we only need the break. We don’t actually need a chocolate bar, a cigarette, a coffee, a donut or a dog to take a break and go for a walk… we are worthy to take a break – just like that!

343. I think the countries who have siesta’s in the middle of the day are onto something. Taking a moment to stop and rest to the bring a quality to the afternoon. Somedays during my lunch break I have found a spot to lie down for a few minutes and it makes a huge difference to how I feel in the afternoon.

344. I like what you are sharing Sarah. It is so easy to get caught up in the making of things especially when it is something so called important we are working on. We feel there is no time left and we need to keep going. But to keep going does not necessarily mean it is productive and effective, so to take a break or simple do something else that we need is a very wise choice that will serve whatever we work on more than to keep pushing and being stressed and tensed.

345. I think I will start using this saying, “stop in the name of love!” to my self when I am doing something I know is not loving – not always having to completely stop and say have a nap, but stop and appreciate something that was done, or stop and listen to the compliment just expressed, or the sharing, stop and take time to observe life and people watch because you can learn so much from it. Creating these stop moments in the midst of life I feel can be very supportive

346. When I don’t honour my body and stop – it does it for me and this has happened in various ways such as the form of a cold or back injury. The need to be busy and not feel what is happening in my body has been such a strong pattern of behaviour. The Stop moments by choice bring so much more clarity into my life.

     1. Yes, when we don’t listen to our body we get a reminder. Our body is looking after us.

347. Why is it so hard to STOP? When both action and repose are both vital parts of life…. I notice I can build up such a momentum in the day, that it’s almost impossible to go to bed, I just want to keep going. So this blog is a great reminder to build more moments of repose into the day and to keep bringing everything back to quality before quantity…. so as to not let that momentum build up.

348. The tendency to go into drive to get things done is endemic in the tertiary education organisation where I work. I too can get caught up in the drive if I don’t put some stop points into my day. I’ve learned that the most basic level of care is to block a lunch break in my calendar, and take myself for a short walk. Then if the drive has begun to creep I notice and break the circuit. The day flows so much more easily without the drive and I’m more productive.

349. Learning how to stop has changed the way I do things. I used to find it particularly hard to leave something half done or incomplete. I would push through to get it done at great cost to my body (which would be over tired, maybe hungry, bursting for the loo, have aching muscles) and well being (I’d be grumpy, not dealing with another priority etc). Because I was not one for stopping, I would not start a task unless I knew I could finish it in one go. This would then stop me from starting the task and put it off, thus creating more pressure as the deadline drew nearer, or with things that did not have a deadline, they just wouldn’t get done. Now I will start things that I know I can’t finish in one go. I will stop if my back starts to ache. I will go to the loo, or break for something to eat. I will start early enough and do things in chunks. Learning to stop has brought a relaxed flow to my days and reduced the stress on my body and mind significantly.

350. There seems to be more deepening in learning to be able to simply be, rather than constantly doing things, the rhythm of the body tells us when we listen to it.

351. I used to think the idea of stopping was inefficient but know I realise I am most productive and focused when I am consistent and steady in my rhythm – sometimes I need to stop to support my body to not have to harden to push through life.

352. We have to push on and fight to not allow ourselves to be all that we are. True stop moments are a window into the easiness of who we are.

353. Learning what it means to ‘Stop’ is a lesson in surrendering to myself, I’ve been finding that the more I allow myself to stop and simply be me the more my behaviours are exposed that support everything I chose to not be me.

354. ” through the healing modalities of Universal Medicine I am learning to bring to a halt the relentless momentum that I have been living with that makes it difficult for me to stop.” This is inspiring and so much needed by us all in the world as it is. A revealing of the way we are living and the quality of this is very exposing but known to us all as we look for other ways to cope instead of bringing the much needed stop and self care first and from here every thing else opens up lovingly.

355. Learning to listen and to trust the messages our bodies are giving us is so important for our well-bing. We go into overdrive for protection, security and recognition, but how really does this serve us when our bodies finally break down? We realise we weren’t protected or secure just allowing an imposing energy to run us based on a belief that we weren’t good enough. By listening to the body and coming to stillness we can observe this imposing energy and come back to deep self loving appreciation – the true foundation for life, vitality and service.

356. “then went about my day much more openly, rather than in the tension of having to push through to get my ‘stuff done’. And P.S. – the stuff got done!” A great confirmation that when we are feeling vital, rested and in appreciation we are much more productive!

357. Reading your blog Sarah the phrase which leapt off the page like a kangaroo leaping through the outback was ‘relentless momentum’ it brought to mind the times I have been driven with the relentless momentum of doing, or even of some emotion like frustration and where stopping was never a consideration. Learning how to stop and change that momentum is certainly a life skill everyone should be educated on, since its not something we are ever taught in school nor generally at home. Love for self and care for the body brings a whole new momentum and I thank you Sarah for reminding me just how important this is.

358. Sarah, this blog is a beautiful reminder of the importance of listening to our bodies, I can feel how if I get busy with things then my ‘stop’ moments go out the window and the getting stuff done takes priority, often this results in me feeling overwhelmed, I can feel how supportive it would be if I consistently listened to body and took these stop moments when my body needs them, whether I am busy with stuff or not and how this would be supportive and allow a consistency and quality to my days, rather than things being done in a rush or drive.

359. “I love the title, Stop in the name of Love” Sarah. What I do know is that it is not loving to run my body into the ground like I used to.

360. “Even then, when I did stop, I never really stopped to truly rest or nourish my body.” What I appreciate hugely since meeting Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon is how much I have been empowered to address the quality of my every day choices and Stop moments. I too used to stop moments in the day, but the way I did that definitely did not nurture my body in any way. The old habits of stopping for a cup of coffee or a glass of wine were never real Stop moments, they just fuelled me up with lots of sugar and caffeine so that I could continue driving myself too hard. These days Stops moments are all about truly resting, nourishing and appreciating my body, so that I can work consistently throughout the day with no false stimulants. The end result is a great night’s sleep because what I nourish my body with allows it to properly rest at night, so that I wake up feeling full of energy. A real miracle but that is what happens when we really take care of ourselves.

361. It is such an important thing to know how to stop, because you can keep running those stop signs but before too long it is inevitable we will crash.

362. ‘I have also learnt the importance of taking care of myself, and through the healing modalities of Universal Medicine I am learning to bring to a halt the relentless momentum that I have been living with that makes it difficult for me to stop.’ This is Gold Sarah. The ‘relentless momentum’ is a self inflicted scourge totally set up to keep us from honouring ourselves. Awesome that we are clocking this and beginning to understand the damage that it does.

363. Sarah to stop in the name of love is such a great call to stop – Thank you.

364. Great observation there Sarah about the way we push our body on and on and then when it gets sick we feel that the body has ‘betrayed’ us. There is such a long long tradition of us talking about the body betraying us and letting us down when we ourselves are the ones who forced th body into that condition! And then there is a related saying with its heels dug in: ‘The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak’. when the flesh is only weak because of the spirit! As usual we have got the facts completely upside-down and ignorantly follow those false thoughts. Time to turn the world upside-down, which this amazing blog is doing.

365. What a deep and infinite wisdom the body has to offer us once we can bring a halt to the relentless momentums than run us, continually feeding the constant hook of distraction that are on offer, designed to keep us as far away from having a relationship and deeper awareness with our innermost and our body communication.

366. I too have learnt that to stop and rest for an hour can make a huge difference to my body in terms of energy to finish chores or whatever I have been doing. Sometimes if I feel not to go back to the job I was doing or planning to do, and that is how it should be. To be more aware of my body and be more flexible with my plans brings a feeling of wellbeing to my whole body and mind.

367. This is what I am discovering too, Mary & Sarah. The push, the drive and the stress do not result in more being accomplished, only an exhausted body at the end of the day.

368. I am loving the simplicity of this article. It’s really inspired me to stop and surrender. I’ve been surprised at, when I stop during the day, how reluctant I’ve been to really let go and feel everything around me. Like a anxiety about really being in the world, guards down. How funny that when I allow myself to be aware of what’s going on in my body and in the energy that surrounds me I believe I’m more vulnerable when actually this awareness allows me to move in a way that supports me. Sticking my head in the sand and turning off my awareness reminds me of when little children play holding their hands in front of their eyes and saying because they can’t see you you’re not there.

369. The long term effects of pushing our bodies on and on in denial of what they are telling us – such as I am tired, or that’s too heavy, or this does not feel right to be doing – are quite horrendous on our nervous systems and adrenals and quality if life. I have been there and done that and seen it in many others. In many ways our ability to push through is championed above and beyond our ability to self-care and self-love. It has been life-changing for me to learn to take ‘stop moments’ during my day to tune into what my body is feeling, to check in if I connect or have abandoned myself under some self-imposed duress and to rejuvenate myself before the next task. Absolutely life-changing. Not only do I have more energy but I get more done when stress and drive are taken out of the equation.

370. This is a lovely reminder to stop when we know that we need to. I have been trying to incorporate little stop moments into my day more regularly of late. I find that when I do this I can stay connected to myself in a deeper way and that this connection allows me to feel what is true in each moment such that I don’t lose myself and require a big stop. For me, these little stops are in the name of love.

371. There is so much we are naturally capable of but it takes Stopping and reconnecting and feeling the love we are to fully appreciate and live this. I find if I am constantly focused on what needs to be done then Stopping is no where in the equation of my day. However if I let myself focus on my quality within a task there are times Stopping is absolutely necessary to come back to my body. Thank you Sarah, awesome blog and so relatable and practical 🙂

372. It’s almost like we enjoy the not stopping and pushing through, and creating issues for ourselves, when in fact there are none. It gives the spirit identification, keeps us in complication and our head, the last place the spirit wants you to be is deeply connected to your body – as it would have no where else to go, it would have to surrender to the Soul and in fact we are all one. It also allows us to continue in our waywardness instead of taking responsibility for staying connected to our body and not abusing it.

373. Choosing to not stop and indulging in it is an irresponsible game the spirit plays, which we allow it, to stay in identification, stimulation, and separation, thus knowingly keeping us away from the one place it doesn’t want to go, ( even though deep down it really does) as it would be exposed for everything thats it’s done and chosen that is not love, and that is union, brotherhood, oneness and our Soul.

374. As soon as we stop, we can actually feel we already know the answers to everything.

375. Ha ha I love it, I have been overthinking today – as soon as I saw this title “STOP in the Name of Love” I did. What it shows though is how quickly we can come back to love – in fact it’s a responsibility we have.

376. Stop moments are a way of expressing love for our bodies and our bodies respond in that there is always space created for what is needed to be done. We just need to trust that this is the case.

377. It can be all to easy to push though and not stop – for me pushing past my bed time rather than honouring that it is time to sleep, or to take time to cook and eat. We have to care for ourselves to be able to do all that we naturally can

378. We can’t have output without input, so makes total sense to respect both aspect equally in everyday living.

379. I am learning more and more about the power of stopping even for a moment and connecting to my love within me. There is nothing more grounding and true than to feel the power of that love.

380. Stopping seems like a simple choice, but ask someone to stop and it can be one of the most challenging things.

381. It’s amazing the difference and the quality in what does get done and how we do it when we honour our bodies first. When we let ourselves be tender, delicate and sensitive as we truly are in nature everything we do has those qualities as well.

382. I love the title of this blog: “STOP in the Name of Love!”. In life we most keep going and going for a reward, recognition or simply to not feel how tired we are. Yet what if there is something in life, and there is, that is bigger and more rewarding than anything else? This is true Love and that is why I like your title, we can keep giving ourselves away to what the world is currently asking from us by being busy or we can stop not just for ourselves but in the name of Love for everyone else to benefit from too.

383. The feeling I get when reading this blog is that attempting to stop after being in such a momentum can feel like trying to stop a run away lorry, such is the drive we can get ourselves into. It is quite an achievement to be able to pull up and say ‘no more’. Taking a few moments in the day to return to ourselves actually provides us with more stamina to do all that is required. We can still work fast, lightly and efficiently if we knock out the drive and anxiety, something that is a perpetual learning for me through the day and one that makes a huge difference to our health and energy levels.

384. Learning to stop puts things that otherwise seem chaotic in order and perspective.

385. Do we really treat our bodies well when it comes to feeling tired? Those signs of tiredness are so readily overridden or dealt with by a quick fix coffee or cake, yet if we want to really care for our body, looking at why we are tired and taking stop moments are much more loving and in the long run beneficial to us.

386. I can relate very much to what you have written Sarah. As long as I had something still to do I found I always had an excuse not to stop. Quality would always go out of the window as I pushed to get those jobs done, whilst my body was signalling to me, often in more than a whisper, to stop. Your blog has been a timely reminder for me to keep listening to my body and bring in those stop moments as a regular loving support.

387. Sarah whats clear is that we can’t ignore our body or the whole picture simply because “we” want to be somewhere or get something done. I came to understand this yesterday in a deeper way, unless we consider the whole and not just what we want we may easily push ourselves beyond what is supportive for our body and also for others. The simple fact is the quality we are in is first and foremost what leaves the lifelong imprint on this earth.

388. First thing I thought of reading your blog was how when you have an exam and you study really hard you might pass with results but usually you forget everything shortly thereafter. The best way is to make sure you’re in a space where you can actually learn and be present. It feels like it relates to what you share here.

389. Thanks to reading your blog Sarah, I have allowed some stop moments for myself recently as my body was asking for that. What I have experienced from these stop moments is that my life has become more joyful if I allow that stop cents in my day instead of rushing on, from the one activity to the next as was my usual behaviour.

390. Sarah, I agree, sometimes there is such a drive in me, that I rather distract myself than lying down and get a rest. It is great to give the body a rest, when we feel tired and appreciate that this is a choice and a movement which supports the body and our rythm.

391. “…learning to bring to a halt the relentless momentum that I have been living with that makes it difficult for me to stop…” I agree, The Universal Medicine modalities definitely support in bringing the body to a true and complete rest, or stop, so for that moment it is clear to identify the habits and patterns that keep the body in a momentum of push, like.. ‘I’ll just do this or that before I…” The learning is the adjusting or changing habits and behaviours, and introducing self love into our day that gradually does make all the difference to our life.

392. That momentum that feeds such a driven way of living is sometimes very hard to see or break. I swear on my heart that I never thought I had a momentum of this until I truly got to feel what stillness was inside my body inspired by the works of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Here I got to see that there is another quality that is deep within that I actually did know about but was so caught up in life that I didn’t know how to connect to it. I Thank God for Serge Benhayon and the teachings, revelations and presentations of Universal Medicine.

393. ‘I then went about my day much more openly, rather than in the tension of having to push through to get my ‘stuff done’. And P.S. – the stuff got done!’ Now that is four miracles in one: no tension, no push, time to rest AND everything completed. Stopping when we need to is magic and not only restores, it changes our relationship with time and space. No longer are we governed by the linear construct of the clock – we’re working with fluidity and spaciousness.

394. Surrender feels to me like a very bodily process, a letting go of the tensions we feel, a stepping away from mental activity to bring our focus to our body and our breath, and letting go as deeply as we can. The type of rest Sarah describes here is just that, and very much like the state that I often feel in Esoteric bodywork sessions. You can drop pretty deep in both facilitated sessions and in your own, personal rest session! Very rejuvenating.

395. ‘So I stopped in the name of love (for me), lovingly put on some moisturiser and covered my body in eye pillows (small heat packs). Then I lay down for a couple of hours and rested. I even fell asleep.’ Now that’s what I call stopping! Where we actually take the time to lovingly put ourselves in a gorgeously surrendered place and allow ourselves to just be – and sleep if that is what is required.

396. What better reason to stop than out of a loving choice? Why do we so often leave it until we are forced to stop by an event in our lives such as illness or an accident?

397. ‘Even then, when I did stop, I never really stopped to truly rest or nourish my body. When I ‘downed tools’ I stopped for a cuppa and a biscuit, just as I used to stop with a glass of wine and a cigarette…’. Yes, I know this one – the sneaky, partial stop that isn’t really a stop at all but a different kind of movement that we can use to kid ourselves we’re resting. I know I can do this one by (supposedly) ‘downgrading’ the level of work I’m doing on the computer, from difficult to easy and call that a rest. While it can be supportive to leave challenging work aside and focus on simpler material, calling this a rest is not rest in truth.

398. There was a time when I never use to stop until my body would say stop. I would keep going not realising the impact it had on my body. Now I listen too and honour my body, when it says stop, I take time to rest and nurture. This in itself has been a healing for my body.

399. Great blog so many of us just keep on going even if our body says to stop, as you have shared when we stop and honour our selves we build a true quality to then move forward. This is something I have been working on too.

400. I like how you said Sarah that nothing fell apart when you did take a moment to stop. The push we get in to seems very much a part of control, trying to hold everything together yet we are all held by God. It is great to stop to feel this support.

401. Just yesterday I enjoyed a day where I simply focussed on doing what was needed to be done in the moment. I did not ‘squeeze’ in anything else. It eradicated the raciness and anxiety which I often feel and by the end of a very busy I was not in exhaustion. It was a true marker – and it was after I had observed and nominated for many days prior, exactly how I had kept trying to squeeze another job in. Amazing to come to this to read at the end of such an experience.

402. What you describe is such a common feature of my day Sarah. I am feeling deeply into how I identify myself through how much I do – even though I have had this awareness and knowing for years – I still default to the behaviour. Understanding it is about quality in all my movements and responding to what my body is asking for is key. This way, more actually gets done. Wonderful exposing of this common phenomena.

403. A true, deep rest is so much more powerful than sitting down on the sofa in front of the TV or reading a book. Allowing ourselves to stop in this way gives the body the space to just be, and from here we can be open to what we get a feeling to do which is quite different to doing what our mind tells us we ‘should be doing’. I am experimenting with this more and more, and I am finding that the more I listen to my body, the more I am able to do without getting tired. It really does come down to the quality in how we do things.

404. This sharing is full of spaciousness. Space to learn, space to reflect, space for change, space for honouring the body and space for space. No perfectionism is needed, just an allowing to start listening to our body and develop to make choices from there – connection – rather than from disconnection.

405. Every moment of the day blesses us with the opportunity to choose, which makes it a big bunch of choices – if just a few choices of self-love a day enrich our days so much – just imagine where we could be if we constantly chose self-love?

406. Awesome blog – and something I am working on, to honour my body and when it is time to stop.

407. Perhaps we need to look at what it is we do not want to feel in ourselves when we push ourselves from one point to another, never making a stop to take stock of where we are at and/or to appreciate that which already is.

408. It is so true what you point out here Sarah – we can treat our bodies with any disregard and disrespect we like, and yet when we get sick we feel the body has betrayed us… how crazy is that?

409. I have found that babies and small children remind us what it means to honour and value our bodies… to rest when needed, eat only enough to support what your body needs and don’t stress about all the things that need doing! I’ve also been very humbled by our puppy we just bought this week, how he stops everything to sleep and only eats what he needs and when it’s time to play he just plays… doesn’t dart to this that and the other like I can do.

410. ‘I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.’ This is significant.

411. Isn’t it amazing how much we can get done if we listen to our bodies and truly rest when it is telling us. It sounds counter productive, resting when there is so much to do, but what I feel true resting does, apart from give us that extra energy, is that it allows a space to be opened to let us focus on what is needed to do and change the energy we do it in and consequently we get more done. As you say Sarah, its always the quality we do something in rather than quantity.

412. Such a powerful lesson you have expressed in this blog Sarah. To deeply rest and listen to the wisdom of the body is such a work in progress for me, thank you for the gentle loving reminder;
     “But through Universal Medicine’s presentations, I am learning how to be with my body and listen to the wisdom it shares quietly, taking the moments to stop and be with my body and to nourish it”.

413. Through taking the time to stop you are acknowledging your worth and honouring your connection to God allowing everything to fall into it’s rightful place and time, creating a flow where everything is achieved with ease and joy.

414. I agree that through implementing stop moments into our days and taking the time to rest our bodies when needed, life becomes much simpler… It’s as if instead of trying to win a race by running through thick mud we are free to walk on normal ground at a pace that doesn’t leave us exhausted at the end of the day.

415. Yes, Sarah, the world does not fall apart when we step out of the temporal demands in order to create space for self care. In fact, as you say, we are able to be and do more by honouring the body and coming back to something feeling refreshed and loved.

416. I stopped at the weekend…On Saturday I made a choice to go back to bed a couple of hours after I had got up because I felt so tired. I slept for a further two hours and it made an enormous difference to how I felt for the rest of the weekend. I was able to get on with my work and do everything that needed to be done that would not have been possible had I not made the choice to rest more.

417. ‘I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output’ – aah yes Sarah, at last I am beginning to realise this. It was beautiful to read your blog and realise that my head will still rule my heart once I get into a momentum of doing and lose connection with my true rhythm – one that ultimately is in rhythm with the universe.

418. It is such a revelation when we attend to the quality of how we work, our relationship with a task or job can be completely transformed. Putting quality first makes a huge difference to how we engage and spend our energy delivering the job, even the more mundane ones can feel completely different. It always surprises me how easily I do jobs that I used spend ages putting off when I focus on the quality I bring to it as opposed to the dismissive attitude I had towards it before.

419. The body tells us very clearly if we are pushing ourselves and treating it roughly, but what if we stopped to listen to what it has to say and for once gave it a bigger voice, then just maybe we will find that it is very wise indeed and that our heads and our thoughts work against our true well-being.

420. An act of love stops thoughts that tell us we’re not enough and lead us to believe we’re hungry, Rather than connecting to the love we search outside ourselves and often use food as a substitute. Snacking between meals is a sign of this, it dulls the body rather than bring a sense of aliveness.

421. On re-reading this blog I felt a raciness in my body that made me stop and have a look at and discovered that it is not only important to stop but also be in a stillness while doing things!
     My feeling is after studying the presentations of Serge Benhayon for the last 12 years my body is still sharing fundamentals about life and stillness and only now I am open to listen.

422. We often hurtle from one activity to the other, rarely stopping to breathe, acknowledging what was completed. Stop moments offer us an opportunity to breathe gently, re-connect, stand, walk or simply sit without doing anything! Consider it an act of love to stop, honour our body and truly connect to how it’s feeling.

423. I am much more aware these days when I go into a raciness or feel a momentum in my body. I am able to pull myself up before I go too much into this energy, often choosing to lie down and spend 10 – 15 minutes connecting with my body. It is amazing how those chosen minutes of deep reconnection can leave me feeling refreshed and revitalised for the rest of my day.

424. It is very wise to tune in and listen to and honour what the body is asking for – from experience, the ‘pushing on’ ‘soldiering on’ ‘getting through’ only ends up with the body speaking up with a health condition you cannot ignore any longer, that forces you to stop. There is so much illness in the world that could have been preventable had we made choices to support rather than run down our bodies.

425. Before my body broke down I was in the perpetual habit of doing as much as I could humanly do. What fueled my relentless doing was a very deeply held belief that the more that I did (especially as a woman), the stronger I was. I would silently chastise women who shared that they had laid down in the middle of the day, believing that they were weak. With the incredible support of the teachings of the Ageless Wisdom as presented by Serge Benhayon I have let go of many of these harmful beliefs and now as a consequence am living life in a body that most of the time feels magnificent. I now see lying down in the middle of the day as deeply honouring of the body and indeed it is through honouring our bodies that we return to true health.

426. I like what Ray is adding here about ‘quality not quantity’. It’s such a trap that I can still get caught in. Stopping is key to this. To seeing the wood from the trees.

427. Stopping and enjoying myself in the space that is required is still a work in progress for me after 12 years of listening to presentations by Serge Benhayon about how to be able to do nothing. It is super important to be able to rest fully when required so our body can move and function with a minimum of fuss and so we can get the maximum output from our day.

428. I love coming back to this blog because it is an awesome reminder for me every day to practice these stop moments as much as possible, knowing how loving and supportive they are. Knowing this, I ask myself, why do I need reminding? Because I am so used to living under the push and drive of life and often overriding what my body is communicating to me. So for me this blog is very supportive and inspiring. Thank you Sarah.

429. Hello Sarah and the list is never ending of things to do, as you say ‘Just tidy up the kitchen, send the email’ etc. When we get caught in this we are never going to stop and when we finally do stop we have over shot the runway. As the ‘jobs’ pile up it’s important the quality we bring to them. You know the old saying, “quality not quantity”, it seems to fit here. I have always found there is plenty to do and I can get caught in the just getting them done routine. The more I bring myself back to the quality of each ‘doing’ I have had more space and time to get things done. Almost magically the dedication to being just with what you are doing and not walking past it to the next thing in your thoughts has made the whole thing easier. There is a flow to life, a cycle and if you stay with this then you get support from everywhere. If we go into box ticking and just getting the job done we miss the flow and are working not only to complete what’s in front of us but battling against the natural flow. Why fight it and maybe time to just let go.

430. When I stop the business of doing I give myself the choice to reconnect with myself and feel whatever it is that I keep running from. The moment I reconnect I feel the support I’m always held in and with this support I can see beyond any hurts to the love that we all are.

431. Inspired by your blog, I realised that when I post a comment I don’t actually give myself the time for the page to reload before I am already on to another tab or window, leaving it to load while I do something else. But it is literally a few seconds I could take to sit back and appreciate the comment I just wrote, and check in with how I feel – I am worth these few moments.

432. stop in the name of love – awesome, and a great reminder for me, knowing that in my life I make it so much about the doing that the idea of stopping is not on my radar, because if I stopped then I would just have to be, and that would so not do! What if I actually stopped and felt my stillness and beauty! Avoiding these stop moments is just another way to stop me from connecting and really allowing myself to be all that is there for me to live.

433. STOP moments are super important in our day. I have been doing this more over the past year. If we keep the momentum going its like a hamster on a wheel you can’t get off the wheel. I know in the past I would keep going and end up eating the wrong foods and feeling exhausted everyday. My Stop moments are part of my daily ritual and yet I am productive and get things done without the drive.

434. There is so much that we give ourselves and everyone around us in the moment we take to stop and consider our next choice, as opposed to jumping from one thing to the next all in the same headspace.

435. I can relate to your experience here Sarah. It is very exposing how easily we override the bodies need to stop and rest just to ‘get the job done’ and cross it off the list. It is the times when I ‘box on’ in order to get the job done when mistakes are made and I often have to go back later and change something. It feels so much more loving and honouring of me to stop, take the time to rest and when I return to the job it flows much more easily.

436. I am learning that when I listen to my body in a stop moment and actually stop that there is magically space for everything and the stop moment was perfect and so supportive. Thank you Sarah, it is always great to have a reminder about these very important tools we can use in our daily living.

437. What I’ve noticed is that stopping to feel how my body feels when I fall into a rut of pushing and forcing things (especially at work) is crucial in allowing me to gain an awareness or understanding how I am allowing an outside situation to change the way I move my body in a way that is not in its normal rhythm. Also, stopping has allowed me to see my investments in certain outcomes and needs of recognition or acceptance from my peers, which is not necessary, especially when it is contrary to my body’s needs.

438. You know what I spotted, was that those “Just get this job done – Just tidy up the kitchen – Just send that email – Just put that load of washing on…” were also tagged along side comments like “just going to have a quick bath” or “snatch a bit of lunch” Re educating myself to make the space and stop for me is a work in process but that connection brings a whole different quality to the day.

439. Beautiful Sarah, and so wonderful to realise that living joyfully is a real potential for all, if we just make the commitment to learning to live our true quality and love.

440. Beautiful Sarah – so easy yet profound. When we let our body rest, we are able to feel where our body is at – and so be able to re-asses what it needs. The point is that once that is felt , equal response and action is needed. So we can live in balance that is actually allowing us to bring everything we feel we need and so what is good for others too, in practice.

441. I saw a sign on a college dorm door that said “I love deadlines… and the whirring sound they make as they rush by. Importance is always a sliding scale, and normally it is something or someone, not us, that feels the task has the greater need to be completed. If it is ‘not done now’ will it matter in the big scheme of the universe? The only true importance is when we do stop in the name of Love for ourselves first.

442. Life if anything is about the quality in which we live. When we do stop this is always what we are faced with.

     1. Yes, stopping can be a shock, a relief or a great confirmation.

443. Education and employment are both currently driven by the constant pressure to increase efficiencies and maximise our output (i.e perform). We are not designed to constantly ‘do’ if we were we would not require sleep. So is it really efficient to fill life with more and more and more doing if this actually goes against our natural rhythm which has an ebb and flow no different to the ocean?

444. It is interesting that we find it so hard to stop and take a moment to care for ourselves, when so often we don’t even consider that we wouldn’t take a moment to stop and take care of someone else. Why is it that we are so willing to put the care of another before the care of ourselves? I grew up with family around me always doing things for other people, and for me this was my normal, and became what was expected of me. I even took more loving care of my horses more than I took true loving care of me. And so it became a pattern and behaviour that was repeated over time, and passed on to generation after generation, until such time that we become aware that this true care has to start at home with ourselves, in order for us to be able to truly care for another. It is with thanks to the teachings of Universal Medicine and Serge Benhayon that I and so many others now understand the meaning of true care.

445. I have found that the more I keep on doing, the more there is that presents itself to be done. I swear my mind keeps a sharp lookout for the next thing to do avoid stopping. I used to congratulate myself that I was accomplishing lots but it truly was at the expense of and detriment to my body.

     1. Jeanette reading your comment on how you used to ‘congratulate yourself on doing lots’ brought back the memory for me of how I used to sit down at the end of the day with a well earned smoke and go through in my mind all the things that I had done in order to feel very deserved of my smoke. I paid no heed to the fact that I had literally bludgeoned my body to death in order to race through everything that I had done in the day. It was also no where near my consciousness to consider what I had contributed energetically to the rest of the world. I now know that energetic quality is the most valuable commodity on Earth (and also off Earth) and that we are outputting energy all of the time, which leads to the understanding that it is not what we are doing that counts, but how we are being whilst we are doing.

446. Learning to make some space to stop and have a breather can make a huge difference to how we feel, I am learning that we don’t need to go into drive to get everything done. Concentrating on the energy of how we do something at the time we’re doing it is the most important thing and then all that needs doing gets done.

447. ‘I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.’ This is an amazing thing to realise and with it comes responsibility when we understand the effect that the quality in which we do things has on everything else.

448. That ‘to do list’ never gets shorter does it ?…and we never get to the end of it anyway so we might as well listen to our body and go at the rhythm it is asking for as tempting as it might be to push on in the belief that we must achieve a certain amount in a set time frame!

449. ‘I didn’t know how to stop’ – It’s crazy that so many of us run our lives in such tension and constant motion that we actually do not know how to stop the momentum when confronted with an exhausted body that requires rest. Thank you for starting the conversation around how to implement these ‘stop moments’ into our lives and I think it’s very important to keep bringing this up and reminding people that looking after our bodies is equally if not more important than completing our to do lists.

450. Through the presentations of Universal Medicine, I’ve come to understand that its often better to do the opposite of what you head tells you in many situations. Take your example of your friend suggesting that you “rest in preparation for the big meeting”. As you shared and as most others would share, how can you rest when there is so much to do. And this is where I’ve got caught out many times before, in putting what there is to do above the quality of myself and how I do what I do. What if the rest is exactly what is needed because then at the meeting we come being fully alert, connected to ourselves and not frantic. Perhaps that is more important that perfecting a word on a powerpoint? I’ve certainly found it to be that way.

451. As I re-read your blog, I was reminded of wise counsel offered by a practitioner during an Esoteric Breast Massage session: we are responsible and can say STOP each time we are drawn to make an un-loving choice: being aware that each moment presents us with a choice to walk with God (love) or not to. Much better to call the stops than to have them imposed on us.

452. I have spent most of my life in drive. When I’m in drive it feels as though I’m being pushed from behind. These days I’m a lot more aware of this and conscious to move with myself and my own energy.

453. I love this Sarah and I can relate very much. I too have discovered that when I do rest the world odes not fall apart and that everything still gets done. I’m learning it’s actually responsible of me to rest as the quality of the way I do things is what matters.

454. “… these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” A timely lesson and one I keep bringing myself back to as well Sarah. The quality of energy we are in when we do anything can always be felt in the end result and can either nourish and support us or not. Whether we have hurried through something or stay calm and gentle as we work is just as important as completing the job itself and a perpetual work in progress. However what I notice is that the lighter, steadier and more connected I choose to be while I work, the less tired I feel at the end of the day. Going in to Rush Around mode in itself is quite exhausting and the quality of jobs accomplished in this energy only drains us further. Every job done with a tender, steady quality nourishes us back and creates a positive loop of energetic nourishment that benefits everyone.

455. “Stop in the name of love” can be applied to a number of things. I find that It’s possible to be with someone but not be present and in constant chatter that fills the space. To stop and simply feel and appreciate the person I am with and just be with them creates space for love. Stopping creates space for love.

456. Sarah, this is very wise, ‘I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.’ I am learning this too and notice that if I focus more on getting things done and not the quality of how I am and how i am doing these things then whatever I am doing feels rushed, unenjoyable and I get tired, if I focus on my quaity then whatever i am doing is much more enjoyable and I feel well and energised.

457. For me to truly stop is to nominate the issues or resistances concerning my stillness and then feel into my body what is needed next. I observe myself when I just stop, it does often not work as my nervous system still goes on as I would not have stopped. The nomination supports me to understand on a deeper level what is going on.

458. How easy it can be, to over-ride signals from our own bodies that are calling us to stop? How readily we may not let ourselves stop until we get everything done, even when our body is screaming for us to halt?
     These patterns can run strongly within us – to our own detriment. ‘Continuing’ on can exacerbate conditions such as pain and exhaustion, it can disconnect us from ourselves and our bodies, only furthering our malaise…
     What I’ve learnt from the work of Universal Medicine, Serge Benhayon and particularly through the modality of Esoteric Yoga that he founded, is that there is actually a way to go about all that we do, without disconnecting, without exhausting ourselves, and in a manner that supports whatever may be going on for us in our bodies. To move in this way is pure joy.
     I don’t claim to live this in any ‘perfection’ (there is no such thing), but experiencing the difference of presence and grace in movement has been profound – resulting, as it would happen, in a capacity to ‘do’ far more than I ever did, yet with quite some consistency of joy and ease within.
     Such changes deserve to be documented for our world, for clearly so much is spiralling out of control, and the toll being taken on our well-being and health is no laughing matter.

459. We’ve been so societally conditioned to operate in this way, haven’t we Sarah… I’ve found also, immense learning over the past few years, especially as jobs and roles in life that I’ve said ‘yes’ to, have stepped up in what they ask of me to do. This learning continues…
     The key is, not only listen to one’s body, but be willing to follow-through and honour it, and also look more deeply at our drives, motivations and indeed all the factors that can get in the way of truly living in a way where we are cherished for all that we ARE first and foremost – and then, go about ‘what we do’. Discovering and deepening this foundation in myself, has been and continues to be, the absolute key.

460. Arresting the momentums we are in are a big, big part of re-learning how to be in life. I can feel for myself too that my drive to do is bigger than the sum of the choices I have made in this life. Seeking recognition and reward for what I do has been behind it, and I feel it has been a pattern for a long, long time. Putting the brakes on is big task, and requires some loving appreciation of that fact.

461. Override – now this is a disease! We override our bodies, our feelings, what we sense and know. Yet all this results in is a life off-track, disconnected from ourselves. Fortunately is is possible to return.

462. Not stopping has impacts on the body as you point out Sarah – there are consequences long term. I manifested a thyroid condition which will possibly be with me for the rest of my life as a result of my inability to stop. Youth will be on our side for a while in most cases but in truth we get away with nothing!

463. ‘…these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.’ Quality – yes, so important. If your whole life is a rush-job, what quality has everything been done in? Anxiousness, nervous tension and angst would be the answer. Therefore, everything we have done will carry these flavours.

464. Living from momentum is the quality killer or killjoy of a life lived from our own connection. Stop moments allows us to expand and connect in so many wonderful ways.

465. It’s late afternoon and my body is asking me to rest, but I still have two more things to do, a voice in my head says, ‘just get these two last things done, then you can rest’ …. what it’s really saying is, when you’ve finished all the things you have to do, you will have earnt the rest. However, my body knows that by then, I’ll be so exhausted I will just check out and probably fall asleep. More importantly, the last things I do will be done in the energy of just wanting to get them done, with every fibre in my body asking me to stop. There is no love here. It amazes me that after treating my body in this way for so many years, it can still be so vibrant when I stop and listen and make choices that honour how I am truly feeling in my body, bringing through the love in all that I do, with love fuelling the input and the output.

466. What a beautifully supportive suggestion and stop moment that was offered to you Sarah. It is interesting that when I have found myself in need of a stop, it is often something that has been easy for someone else to observe but that I have not realised myself. For me, this has been because I have been too caught up in the momentum that created the need for the stop in the first place.

     1. Good insight Lee, often we are so caught up in the momentum that we are not able to discern its ill spin and the harm it is doing us, and possibly others too. So that is part of the joy of brotherhood – that we can help each other with becoming aware of our blind spots and destructive sabotage that hinder us from knowing true joy, true well-being, and greater love – together we can all accelerate true evolution.

467. What a brilliant title ‘STOPin the Name of Love’. It says so much. It would be a brilliant fridge magnet or bumper bar ad!

468. It’s so easy to get into that state where we keep putting off that stop moment because we put more importance everything and everybody else in getting the job done and then there is the next job and then the next and so on until before you no it its bed time and there hasn’t been any time given to yourself. What are we avoiding when we do this, is it possible we avoid giving ourselves love and care and then want another to give us this love and care because we in fact are unwilling to feel our emptiness and lack of self-love. Learning to appreciate and love ourselves by giving ourselves these stop moments is the beginning of being able to love and truly nurture others for if we don’t fill ourselves up with our own self-love then we cannot truly be love with anyone else. Stop moments give us the time to feel and reflect. Yes it is time to Stop in the name of love.

469. The world does not fall apart when we stop, and everything that we thought HAD to be done no matter what, can all be done tomorrow. Even deadlines are flexible but we seem to push really hard at the expense of our bodies quite often to reach target. The more that I develop self love and care for me, the less prepared I am to make work or a target more important than my health and wellbeing. It has taken a long while to get here though because years ago, I would have done anything, jump how high? to get the recognition or meet the KPI.

470. We just need to remind ourselves to stop for a moment or two throughout the day to observe and take a leaf (pun intended) from the natural and wonderful rhythm of nature – we are all part of nature!

471. I’m really starting to stop and appreciate the quality I do what I do in, feeling and appreciating the quality and what it brings to the world. We all feel the quality with which something is done in -not acknowledging this can only be not wanting to acknowledge the responsibility of this. There seems to be an implicit arrangement we have with others that says, I’ll not call it if you don’t. By just calling it within myself with what I observe of myself and others is a great start.

472. I love reading this; learning to actually stop and arrest the ill energy I’m in. To stop and be present with myself and be honest with what I’ve been choosing rather than ‘relax’ by numbing out watching TV or over eating which only accumulates yucky energy in my body. It is exhausting fighting my natural responses to look after myself.

473. If what we do is not completely routine, then stopping and recovering from any tiredness or simply getting a new perspective can be far more efficient than a ‘heads down, tail up’ approach. Often we find that something can be done much more simply or need not be done now or even ever.

474. I am very aware that the longer I allow myself to keep going in a fast paced momentum then the harder it is for me to get out of it. It’s as if I am physically caught up in a pre set speed and turning the dial to a lower setting isn’t an easy option. Therefore recognizing when I am cranking myself up and choosing to slow down when I first notice it, is definitely the best way to avoid the calamity that lays ahead!

475. Love is in the being, therefore the only way to feel love in the doing is to bring the being into the doing.

476. Our bodies have become like freight trains but because it is how most people are choosing to live then the way that we are living has become normal. Not only that but we are constantly looking for ways to be able to fit even more into our days. It seems that our goal in life is to ‘do more’. After a while our poor old bodies limp into the station, unable to continue hauling their way through life in the way that they have up until then. Sometimes it’s a case of minor repairs and at other times our bodies actually never really leave the station again.

477. Sarah, I love what you have shared here in your blog. Knowing how to stop, and I mean really truly stop, is so important for us and I must say that all too often I still override my sense to do so.
     What you have said here is key: “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” – this is key because essentially when we develop the quality as focus and hold that as our foundation, then we do feel such joy and contentment, and then this gives us even reason to look forwards to a stop, to want to have a stop, because it is all about returning to a quality that supports us. Thank you for this beautiful reminder!

478. I’m discovering more and more that if I keep my thoughts simple and present on the actual task at hand be it the sleep or rest that is needed, the dead-line, the appointment time, the shopping etc. then all the stuff does get done. This is a type of science for me, a universal law that supports a flow and spaciousness for whatever is truly called for. As long as I stay with myself and breath my own breath I feel supported. If I switch to thinking, controlling, working it out in my head my body contracts, I breath all the situations and there is a lack of time and space to complete anything.

479. “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something “. This is a brilliant awareness and appreciation to hold and lay the foundation of every area of life on. Life for me also becomes simpler with a flow that confirms back the lovely qualities of us all.

480. I love the way how our body gives us the signals to stop and to reconnect to our body. We are forever guided by our body and its really up to us to following the guidance to ensure we don’g get exhausted or burn out. Which can easily happy if we constantly are doing and not stopping when we get the signals.

481. “STOP in the Name of Love!” what a great name for the blog. I recently had a great example of the fact that stopping is actually necessary for the sake of ensuring the quality that we are living and acting in is that of Love. The stop I am talking about does not necessarily need to be a great big elongated tools down action, but enough space for us to pause reconnect with our body if required and do a quality check – gauge our experience. Then we can refine our activities and choices if needed. Without this we can carry on a bit like a ship slightly off its intended course, after a while we find ourself where we never intended to be.

482. Serge Benhayon talks extensively about the way we live being the source of all our woes, malaise, illness and disease. Perhaps the whole world should take a “STOP in the name of love moment” and assess how things are really going for us all, how we feel. Perhaps we should all take a rest from the way we are living and from waring with our brothers, and then we may see that there is another way to be rather than that in the largely disastrously love-less momentum of which we are.

483. To stop is something that happens within a movement, it is not just the absence of movement. (In fact we are never not moving…). It’s actually a science, the science of stillness.

484. The quality in which we move and express, in which we do anything at all, is what determines the quality of the end result. If we started valuing quality, both energetic and material, above quantity and drive, the world may be a very different place.

485. Stop in the name of love, this is a real truth and something we so often ignore in our busy lives, and the more tired we get the more we can go on to get things done. It takes love to bring the truth and connection we get from stopping and the space created from this, as though time slows down with love and the amazing realisation that really does happen.

486. It’s interesting how much we choose to and enjoy complicating everything, purely as a form of stimulation and identification; instead of the simplicity of listening to our bodies.

487. To me there’s a lot in this part of this beautiful blog “neither gloss over what I was feeling, nor what was being suggested to me, as I had done in the past. So in that moment I expressed that I didn’t know how to – I didn’t know how to stop.”. To me this shows perfectly how there are different ‘states’ in communication. Often we think that our reaction is because of somebody else expressing something rather than taking responsibility ourselves for what we feel – in order to not have to deal with what’s coming up for us (“neither gloss over what I was feeling”). And in that reaction we ‘protect’ ourselves towards ‘the other one’, and from that guard we tend to not listen anymore, at least not openly (“nor what was being suggested to me”. And if we take responsibility and stay open, we might not come to an honest reply (in this instance: “I didn’t know how to stop”). I love the fragility, humbleness and willingness to have a deeper look. Thank you!

488. I choose, or rightly my spirit chooses, although I choose to allow it, to not stop as that means feeling my essence and evolving, and therefore co-creation. All a matter of responsibility.

489. Isn’t it interesting or exposing how we see resting or in truth surrendering as a bad thing when it’s actually in truth an opportunity to evolve. This is spirit’s wily game to stop us connecting to our essence and our Soul.

     1. So true Gyl, it exposes the game doesn’t it. It is time to STOP that one for sure.

        1. It occurred to me whilst reading the comments that we have ramped ourselves up into such a momentum that even slowing down is not easy, let alone stopping! It feels as if the momentum is greater because of the sheer number of people that are caught up in it’s ferocious pace. We live this relentless pace both at work and at home and introduce it early on into the lives of our children with all of their out of school activities and weekend socializing. What happened to sitting in trees for hours?

490. This is a very important blog Sarah, thank you for writing it. Most of us know what to do, but because we have become so used to pushing forward and ignoring and denying our bodies, we dismiss the communication it brings us. What you say re ‘the stuff got done’ and the world did not fall apart is huge. Why do we think that pushing and rushing through is the only way and that things will crumble if we stop? Is our world deliberately designed so that we believe that we have to keep going, as if we STOP there would be more of that loving quality that you speak of? Is there some benefit in things being the way that they are?

491. The title here made me giggle as it reminded me of my favourite ‘STOP’ sign near where I used to live here in the California. Someone had added ‘In the name of Love” underneath and I always enjoyed stopping there and feeling where I was at. The way we are living these days, in the rush and the go go, this is a message for us all.

492. Beautiful Sarah. Our bodies are so wise and know exactly how to take care of what is needed. I love what you’ve shared here in actually listening to that. A pertinent message for us all.

493. There is an insidious belief that I’ve taken on – along with many other women and men – that stopping to rest in the middle of the day, or when there are things to be done, is lazy, irresponsible, selfish; and that the stuff that needs to get done will be left ignored, forgotten, unfinished.

     It’s taken me a long time to even consider the possibility that this belief may be false, and that it is not only acceptable to rest when the body needs it, but it is crucial for our wellbeing, our work productivity and our relationships to have these stop moments.

     Thank you, Sarah, for bringing to light an important topic.

494. Learning to stop before my body forces me too has been a big change in my life. Taking the care to be able to deliver a consistency of presence no matter what I do has made me take more responsibility for my energy levels.

495. How lovely it is that we can see that it is worth listening to our bodies and caring for ourselves. I used to push myself to get things done and more than that, I used to think up more projects to cram into a small space of time to make things even more hectic. I am learning not to do this, to not create complication and to also not need that adrenalin to get things done. Now things are more measured and I will check in and see how my body feels first.

496. Always to my surprise when I do take things easy…’the stuff got done!’.

497. Wow! This could have been me writing this blog Sarah! I’m in the exact same process at the moment. Learning to not override my body yelling at me to stop. I have the panic about not knowing how and worrying that all the balls I have in the air will come tumbling down. What a drama queen I can be! The world NEVER comes to end if I stop…crisis is always averted and the world continues its revolutions. We are crazy creatures some times are we not?!

498. “Stop in the name of love” reminded me of a song growing up. Never understood the meaning of it until I read your blog. Interesting isn’t it I remember hearing the words but they were meaningless at the time.

499. The quality we are in and do things with during the day has a lot to do with the quality of rest we can go into when we stop.

500. When we listen to our body, honor how we feel moment to moment and continuously through out the day monitor and adjust our self to what feels best for/in our body, we do not need to have major stop moments to come back to our self nor to rest, as we do not lose our self nor do we need as much rest as we are re energizing our self constantly with the honoring and nurturing we are doing moment to moment.

501. One of the biggest things that get in the way of trusting the wisdom of the body is our beliefs and ideals of how things ‘should be’, ‘ought to be’ etc. We have so many pictures of how life is meant to be that we forget to just be with what is before us. It seems like the most natural thing in the world that if we are tired that we rest, yet most of us go against that impulse and keep going. It is certainly time to drop the arrogance of the mind and just listen to our bodies.

502. Saying yes to a stop moment is a nurturing gift to our bodies and allows us to bring quality rather than quantity into play. When we feel rested in our bodies we are more able to stay present with any task or connection with another we may have, which is where true quality resides.

503. Stopping is one of the most loving things we can do for ourselves, whether that be 2 minutes or 2 hours.

504. So much value in today’s society is based on our output, what we achieve opposed to our quality of being. The irony is that when we focus on our quality of being, our output naturally improves.

505. There will always be a list of things that need to get done. The list never ends. Even if we get to the bottom of it one day, there is another the next. Therefore it is a trap to constantly try and get to the end of the list. What is most important and as you have pointed out here Sarah, is the quality in which we do things. When we focus on the quality what we do no longer becomes about the destination.

506. It is quite something how our relationship with time changes we make space to stop and listen more to our bodies.

507. I too Sarah have found that there has been a momentum of doing but that came after a while of being withdrawn from life, so as part of my commitment with life I have noticed that the momentum of doing and not finding time to stop has been there as well. As you say this has started to change when I have connected to myself first and the quality in the way that I am doing what ever that needs to be done. It’s all about who I am, not what I doing, and it is an ever deepening one that requires loving dedication and awareness.

508. It’s so common to just keep going with our to do lists in the anxiousness that if we stop or take some time out to look after ourselves everything will collapse and nothing will get completed, but as you share – ‘The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off’… We can actually create more space in our day by doing this because the QUALITY of our work is improved by looking after ourselves and thus it may take less time to do things and we may feel less exhausted or drained.

509. This is such a good blog for me to read at the moment as I have been so busy there is no time for stop moments unless they are specifically created.

510. Sarah I’ve really been feeling the need to bring a deeper connection to my activities, and noticed how hard it can sometimes be to truly stop and not check emails, SMS’s and be caught up in what going on with the smartphone. In effect I can see we use tech to avoid having any stop moments or being with us moments. I’m going to run a little experiment and see how that goes. I remember when you had to watch the news instead of getting alerted to it every few minutes with app notifications.

511. I am a big fan of midday naps for this reason.

512. To stop is always a choice. We can choose to stop or we are stopped by our body.

513. There are so many levels to stopping. One is the physical, “stop my body is tired and I need to rest”. Another is one I personally find far more challenging, to stop thinking about the tasks ahead and instead stay fully aware of the task currently in hand. I wonder how much extra energy I expend on thinking ahead of my self that the contributes to my physical tiredness?

514. I have lived my life with the relentless momentum that you describe Sarah, and it rewarded me with the satisfaction of having got lots done, without considering the quality. It initially felt very difficult to stop and listen when I felt tired instead of the pattern of pushing through it, but I am aware that a stop now and again when I feel tired will actually boost my productivity as the quality feels so much better. The results are not about the jobs done, but much more importantly the quality we are in when we are doing them.

515. It is amazing how we can turn around old and ingrained behaviours, like you have shared here, just by being open to start talking about it in an honest way and owning up to the fact of how we live and how we treat ourselves in our daily lives. This in turn opens up for true healing and true change.

516. Great article Sarah, I love this, ‘The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off. I simply rested because that was what my body was sharing with me it needed to do’, reading this I can feel how I think that I have to get things done and these take priority over me resting when I feel to, I often boil the kettle so I can stop and have a cup of tea and sit down to rest but often find myself carrying on and then keeping re-boiling the kettle and never ending up stopping at all. Thanks for writing this article, its a great reminder to listen to our bodies and their wisdom.

517. ‘The world did not fall apart.’ – Well put Sarah, and it’s true – we seem to think that if we don’t keep the fierce control in our lives, everything will go downhill and something really bad will happen. When truth is that it is a sure path to hardness, tension and anxiousness.

518. This is such an important lesson you share, Sarah. It can be so easy to get so caught into ‘doing’ and the anxiety that things will not get done. When this happens we get caught into a vicious cycle of mental anxiety fuelled by adrenaline, which becomes reliant upon stimulants to maintain that eventually leads to physical exhaustion.

519. Sarah something I have come to realise is that no matter how seemingly good what I am doing is if it is not done with quality, love and care then it matters not even if the results seem great. Ultimately we are not meant to be here so if the end result does not enable more love then all is does is champion life here so creates further separation. It may seem harsh but it is the reality. Love is either love or it is not love there is no fence.

520. When we are ticking things off our list or thinking about what needs to be on the list is all outside of us! I am getting better at clocking this and is in my face apparent when I lose my contention with myself by being in my head. These are my daily micro stops to come back to me.

521. Great point you make Sarah, often we may stop the outer motion but we do not stop the inner motion. We do not deeply surrender and rest in a way that rejuvenates our body. We need to stop the internal chatter and nervous energy by connecting with our body and surrendering deeply.

522. STOP in the name of love should be our normal. As what you share Sarah, the world does not fall apart but instead you rejuvenated and got all tasks done anyway but now in another type of energy, the energy in which everything flows and is harmonious, which is the energy of love.

523. When I stopped drinking alcohol, the hardest part was feeling the momentum that I had been living in, which was in fact what was driving me to feel I ‘needed to drink’, it was like a freight train pushing me along, in complete disregard for myself and my amazing, totally awesome body. The greatest gift for me, from me, was to choose to stop, to feel the abuse from the momentum and to choose to live my life differently, honouring who I am in appreciation of all that I am now and always have been.

524. ‘I didn’t know how to stop’ …. I feel this is a very common condition, explaining why so many people are walking around completely exhausted, running on nervous energy and momentum. When we stop, there is no avoiding feeling how we’ve been living, it all comes through in our body. Our bodies are constantly communicating with us, yet so often we override this wisdom in favour of what we want to hear from our minds.

525. It is so revealing Sarah that sometimes we don’t even know how to stop. I get caught in this at times as there is always so much to do. When I take the time to stop, I find that I am much clearer about my priorities and I am much more able to complete what it is that is required.

526. Our bodies are a Divine instrument through which we are designed to live and breathe in union with so as to bring volume of greatness, the quality of Love to our everyday living. Thank you Sarah for the sharing how powerful it is to honor the STOP moments to support our bodies and ourselves so as the live our full and true potential.

527. ‘I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.’ – a beautiful revelation shared that highlights that we can bring a much richer quality to whatever we do when we are connected to our essence.

528. It is interesting how we think that ‘the world will fall apart’ if we are not there. I too have thought this and have been driven by this belief, yet in truth it will fall apart if we are not present with the quality that honors a body of love and truth. So at the end of the day it’s all about the quality that we are connected to that will bring a quality of presence to all we do. And also when working together in a group stopping can offer the opportunity for another to take the lead and hold the quality or bring expansion of the group, reflecting true support.

     1. How wrong are we that we each believe that it is us, that is, in some way holding everything together!

529. Sarah thank you for sharing this great reminder that we need to honor our bodies with what they tells us in order to be able to continue to work with vitality and clarity. I too have had a difficulty with stopping in the past and can still get caught up by it from time to time. But the more I pay attention and honor my body the less this happens. As whenever I do push through with the task at hand I do feel racy, scattered, and overwhelmed as opposed to the clarity, steadiness and connectedness that comes when I am present, rested and feeling vital.

530. The world won’t fall apart but we sure can if we don’t listen to what our body has to say. When we do stop and listen and make it about our quality first, everything changes, far more than we are often willing to notice.

531. As we have so called progressed as a society and have everything pretty much on call 24/7, our overall health and wellbeing has been declining. If we think we can live outside of nature’s rhythm and order, that we are each equally a part of, we will continue to suffer the consequences both within and outside of our bodies. Stopping in the name of Love is a call for us all, thank you Sarah.

532. I love the body’s true intelligence, it knows….. whereas the mind often overrides its wisdom.

533. Often I can feel my body is asking me to STOP but I feel a push to carry on and continue with what I am doing. It is by bringing more awareness and understanding to where this push and drive comes from that supports me to not choose this momentum. Instead I can choose to honour my body and listen to its messages with love and care more consistently.

534. Life has become so busy for most that we can often lose connection with the quality of our being in the constant ‘doing’ of life. The presence and quality we bring to our movements can support us to stay with our body and what is before us and so not get ahead of ourselves.

535. When in a great momentum…We can stop through our own choice; or by being stopped.

536. Sometimes when we are in a continuous momentum it is difficult to truly stop, but stopping allows us to reset, regather and return with renewed loving purpose.

537. It’s interesting that we encourage children and babies to stop and have a nap, or a rest as soon as they hit ‘tired’ mode. And yet, expect ourselves to push through it as if stopping is a luxury.

538. It is often when we need to stop the most, that it ‘seems’ like the hardest thing in the world to do.

539. Well done Sarah and what a vital, clear and joyful quality and body you would have then brought to your meeting and everyone in attendance. For the last couple of years I’ve been picking apart this momentum thing, and it’s been really interesting, I’ve realised I’ve used it for self-worth, to be confirmed or appreciated by others, what I’ve been accustomed to growing up and also as a major distraction away from what’s truly going on. Stop moments should never be underestimated of the loving support and reconnection on offer.

540. When we are exhausted our productivity plummets. I find it quite surprising how proud many people are about the fact that they work so hard that they are often or even permanently exhausted.

541. I love how you say you don’t know how to stop and then admit that actually you do know! If we STOP and are honest we do know the truth and we do know what we need to know in life.

542. “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” This is a huge learning Sarah and one that I too have found very challenging to accept, but it is so true. When we make such choices about the quality in which we will do something, there is undoubtedly a different feel to the result, and to us, and in fact when we make a choice about the quality first, we are able to do far more than if we simply ‘just get on with stuff’.

543. Making space for those moments with and for myself feels so honouring not only of me but of the natural rhythm of which I can be a part if I choose to be.

544. This has exposed how we use busyness to keep everything we not want to know hidden, to not deeply feel the truth in our lives. Bringing a ‘stop’ when our body asks this of us is not only loving but a responsible way to live. Everything we are and everything we choose affects our world and others around us – time to bring in more ‘stops’.

545. Being honest about the pictures and expectations we place on ourselves is the first step in order to create space to honour our bodies for once we can let go of these we realise we create more space for everything that is required in our true quality of being.

546. Stop moments can halt the momentum we are in and allow us to reconnect to ourselves and what is true.

547. I honestly don’t think you can hear this enough in today’s world where we have gone into auto pilot mode to make sure things get done. There is so many things that feeds this – one being security, want to make sure that we don’t get sacked or fired for not producing what needs to be delivered. Or that you may not get the next job if they thought you were slacking. Our mentality to get to an end result is usually driven by tight deadlines and you just have to make it happen. But as we are seeing at the expense of our bodies and what we are putting them through. Stop in the name of Love has a whole new meaning.

548. Just reading your blog and all the comments I can feel how much my body would like me to stop resisting the stop and simply surrender to it.

549. ‘Stop in the name of love’ I love the depth this gives to our stop moments.

550. It’s so easy to fall into the belief that my life will fall apart if I stop. But from experience stopping is the best thing to do when I am busy, and when I have taken a few moments to reconnect I am then in a much better state to continue my day. Sometimes it is hard to break the momentum when I am in it, but it is so worth it when I do.

551. We can get so caught in rush and doing that stopping can feel alien . . . but as you share ‘the world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off.’ It feels so supportive to stop and rest when we need to. Occasionally at school where I work I will take a 10-minute lie down in the sick room and it makes a big difference to how I feel in the afternoon.

552. “I realised that I actually do know how to stop, but I don’t put it into practice often enough.” – we do know. We choose to ignore that what often is so obvious. We know how to deeply care and nurture for ourselves. We all have a great guide… Our body! If we only but listen to our body and allow ourselves space to reflect and ponder on different choices we could make, we will find that there are indeed multiple ways to take STOP moments.

553. To stop is one thing, something I am learning more and more but after this comes the next step: the quality in which we are during our stop moment..am I distracting, simply stopping or do I actually consciously change the quality I am in, takes time to truly nurture and nourish myself and deeply connect to within? A great reminder to deepen the latter.

554. It’s a great point about how we can ‘stop’ but do we allow ourselves to truly rest and regather?

555. ‘The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off.’ It’s a huge and ridiculous delusion we have that everything will come undone if we’re not there. I recall feeling like that before I’d go on leave from work, then feeling surprised when I came back that… nothing had happened at all. We seem to have an unbalanced sense of our own importance in these instances!

556. ‘I got sick and was forced to stop and rest – often feeling like my body had betrayed me.’ Yes, amazing how we push and push ourselves then get angry when our bodies pack it in. It’s the same thing as continuing to flog a horse that can’t move a muscle more.

557. ‘Just get this job done. Just tidy up the kitchen. Just send that email. Just put that load of washing on…‘. There’re a lot of ‘justs’ there, aren’t there? Justs of justification though rather than any real sense of personal justice. Everything else becomes more important than we are in justification mode.

558. ‘I realised that I actually do know how to stop, but I don’t put it into practice often enough.’ Or should that read: ‘I realised that I actually do know how to stop, but I WON’T put it into practice often enough.’ I’m speaking for myself here as much you Sarah, suffering from the same disease – unable-to-stopitis – myself. Like you, I do know how to stop but am addicted to doing.

559. We all know how to stop, but I can relate very well to the feelin of fear that if I do, everything will fall apart. It is like I do not trust the world to be able to get along without me doing what I need to do, which exposes this kind of driven motion as a method of control. The remedy for control is surrender. I have become very aware of what I am capable of, and what is too much. This has allowed me to appreciate what I do, let go of what I have not.

560. Life certainly is more joyful when there is a chosen quality and loving care in it. I find that consciously choosing the quality in which I do things keeps me tuned into the bigger picture. I can see how the way I am affects everyone around me. Whereas when I get busy I become quite myopic and all I can feel is myself. As you have shared Sarah, the work still gets done, it just feels a whole lot better in my body and for every one around me.

561. I am finding that a lot of us, especially women seem to have this disease of busyness. When we do have the opportunity to stop we don’t seem to know how to really let go and just be. The more I have observed this in myself and others over the years, the more I can see we get out of being like this, even though we would say we don’t want to be so busy. I have noticed that busyness can be a way to feel worthy, to be seen to be doing enough to be valued by others. I have also seen how we can use busy to keep people away (don’t bother me now, I am too busy!) and not really allow intimacy to develop in the relationship.

562. It’s ironic how we feel that our body has betrayed us when we get sick. In reality it is us who have betrayed our body. We should naturally treat our body like we promise to treat our marriage partner, to love, honour and cherish, as this is the longest and dearest relationship we can have.

563. I could relate to the list of thoughts that come in about not stopping. I noticed that they all started with ‘just’. I also notice this at work and red lights and alarms should go off every time I hear myself think, “I’ll just … before I have lunch, go to the toilet etc. Sometimes it can be hours later that I realise I still haven’t done these things that my body prompted me to do. Knowing this can be a tendency at work, I now tend to respond to my body in the moment before the override switch is deployed. When I do this I feel so much fresher at the end of the day and I simply feel good about being kind to myself.

564. It is so easy to just say I can’t possibly, and to think of all sorts of reasons why we can’t stop. But I have noticed that when I refuse to stop, often the reason is that I do not want to feel whatever it is that the rushing around and the anxiousness is masking. It is often to do with the quality of my experience especially around relationships or responsibility – they may look good on the surface but I know in my heart when it feels real or if I am bringing my all to it or not. When I stop I have to face me and my awareness of really what is going on.

565. Overriding, push and drive had become a part of my everyday life, to the point that it was all that I knew. Asking me to stop seemed completely foreign, even my holidays were packed full of drive. Learning a new way of living has meant more vitality, and calmness getting off the rollercoaster of drama and emotions. I haven’t checked out of life i am just as passionate but instead of drive is commitment and purpose and the momentum comes from a love of humanity.

566. I have found when I get too tired I can often go into a push or drive to get work done. I have been doing some major sorting out in our house and I could feel how I would have approached it previously, and that there was a temptation to go into a force or push to get it All done. I chose more to be aware of how I felt and be understanding if I did not get it All done. I did not get it All done, but I got enough done and I felt good when I finished the day.

567. I have a rest nowadays, when I need it, I lie down, even for 5 minutes, it can really support me to feel more vital and ready for what is coming next. I feel a walk also can support this and reconnection.

568. I have been realising that if I get a day at home alone I need to be super present and aware of how my body is feeling, often it is a day to get the house tidy and sort things out and I can push it too far and true and do one last thing, and another etc…there is always more to do. Following our true impulses and feelings means that our rhythm is not in a lineal line, so some times now I change what I am doing, take a moment or so to rest, move my body different way and don’t keep forging ahead with tasks.

569. I have felt like this before, so used to doing, I did not know how to stop. I had a really big weekend on a training course I was sharing in and I was really tired, but I felt I have to do my fair share and finish cleaning the kitchen with everyone before I went to bed. Even though I had supported everyone beforehand and in truth really been there for others, I did not feel that I could stop when I physically needed to. I deemed it a failure or not being fair with all. One of the other people turned to me and said its okay go to bed, I cried, it felt amazing to have support, but even more amazing to let the support in…I have had a life where I am used to looking after myself and I am now starting to let people in and support me.

570. The relentless ‘doing’ can be a killer, and we can easily go into doing without the bringing the true quality of ourselves to what we do. If we make it about our quality first and what we bring to the task, what gets done is done with that quality, and we confirm ourselves and to all others a quality that no amount of doing can convey.

571. My life was on permanent cruise control and it was not one of those adaptive types, I just ploughed through every-thing, without any care or time to stop. Eventually my body would break down so I would have to go into reverse, or so it seemed at the time! Over the last 12 years I have added an adaptive cruise control that works most of the time but I still get the odd time when I have to take a complete stop. Now my stops are only in days at a time, not the months laid out on my back like they used to be. Thanks to the Way of The Livingness I understand that there is still work to be done!

572. I often ignore the feeling I may have to pause and re-gather. It may be as simple as the inner voice telling me to go for a walk or go to the toilet or get a drink, to not speed or to sit in my chair properly.. To surrender to this gentle voice is hugely freeing as it allows me to be with me and stop running, racing ahead.

573. It is amazing how much we give importance to the things we think we have to do and none at all to our body that does it all. Our bodies work way more efficiently when we allow these stop moments, and when we don’t . . . they may bring us to a full stop.

574. I love this blog Sarah for it takes us back to a very simple command that most of us have had to learn to follow and that is STOP! A simple straight forward word, one we learn early on in our lives and know, if we don’t follow that command it means trouble. The bodies command for us to stop, and rest means it needs to recover from the pressure we have put on it , to let go of the need to keep pushing through the fatigue or pain we may be feeling and lovingly put our feet up, to avoid some injury or illness in the future.

575. “I am learning to bring to a halt the relentless momentum that I have been living with that makes it difficult for me to stop.” That momentum is what makes it so difficult to change old habits, when we realise there is a momentum behind our ill ways we can understand why we need to be consistent in our approach to lasting change.
     Simple stop moments then become greatly instrumental in building a more loving momentum.

576. When I stop and listen to what my body is telling me it is one of the most nurturing things that I can do. I get to feel my own love feeding me back and this is something to be deeply appreciated.

577. Can you imagine what the world would feel like if everyone just stopped for one moment.

578. “The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off.” It’s certainly a lesson I have been learning too Sarah, thank you for your very honest sharing. How common is it to feel that our body has let us down when we get sick, rather than owning the fact that we willfully over ride all the signs, messages and very loud signals that we need to stop? I too appreciate the way Serge Benhayon, his family and all those who study with Universal Medicine bring us home to love and taking deep care of ourselves. It has transformed our entire perspective on life and the fact that when we do take an hour here and there to rest and nourish ourselves properly, we can actually offer the world so much more.

579. I used to get the biggest ache and strain in my my lower back and kidneys when I didn’t stop and then it would be so uncomfortable when I did that I couldn’t lie flat at all. Taking ignoring the body to the nth degree! Illness made me stop and take stock and since then I have listened.

580. The world is in motion it never stops. We have forgotten how to stop, unless it is at the end of the day in front of the TV, or to have a coffee or meet up with a friend and a glass of wine. We think these are stops but really they are just less of the motion we have been in before. Stopping to feel how our body is, is a totally different kind of stop, it allows ourselves to feel how the day has really been. Maybe this is why so many people have so much difficulty in sleeping, this motion we are in in the day is carried into our night.

581. If we don’t stop then life becomes all functional. STOP moments are the key to developing self-appreciation. If we do not stop then we don’t get to be aware of the full extent of who we are and what we bring.

582. I love your point about that you did know how to stop but just hadn’t been practicing it enough. It is a great reminder for me as I often want to be so perfect without doing anything and this makes me feel very tired at times. Realising I know how to do the many things and can have the lovely qualities I observe in others by just putting it into practice more and most importantly… giving myself space to not get it right the first time. What a gorgeous feeling?

583. ‘Just get this job done.
     Just tidy up the kitchen.
     Just send that email.
     Just put that load of washing on… and then I will stop.’

     When we live like this we are missing out on truly ‘living’; instead of being joyful throughout our days, building on relationships, supporting other people and making our purpose to provide a reflection of love for other people to feel, we literally ‘live to stop’. We wake up thinking about how many things we need to do to ‘stop’, and we go to bed thinking about the next list of things to do before we can ‘stop’. However we never actually achieve true rest or stop moments – things just spiral as we keep on ticking off things on list without any quality to our days or movements.

584. “The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off.”
     It’s a great point, that the world doesn’t end when we care for ourselves and rest up if we need to… I needed reminding of this.

585. This was great Sarah- as women we are so good at having to do lists. I myself am not foreign to trying to get everything done whilst disregarding what my body is telling me. You offer how simple and totally okay it is to listen to what we need and take care of ourselves 🙂

586. The art of stopping the momentums we find ourselves getting caught up in is definitely recognising as you share Sarah, …”the importance of taking care of myself…” as in having daily rituals and moments of self care, that does bring vital stops and connection with our body. Indeed, there is such a link between self care and slowing down the busy momentum we can easily get caught up in.

587. Isn’t that great, that the world just goes around in circles, even if we stop for a moment? It shows how much we are supported. If we don’t stop now and then, we can not truly bring what we need to bring.

588. Sarah it’s great to look at the topic of stopping, with a constant stream of activities that can be done, with work or distractions always there the question of having the time/space to stop often comes up. I’ve been pondering since your blog about the times when I feel to stop but override and keep going, what’s my reason for that? Is there part of me that thinks I’ve not done enough or that has tried to fit too much in? Regardless, I feel from your blog is the key is honouring when to stop and taking care of ourselves in the quality of what we do.

589. It is so easy to get stuck in the momentum of doing and pushing to beat those deadlines and putting ourselves to one side and in a way saying to ourselves ‘I’ll deal with you later’ – ouch.

590. As you say, Sarah, I remember being frustrated with my body thinking it had betrayed me because it would not do what I wanted it to do and would sometimes get sick. Now of course I realise that it was me who was betraying my body, by not listening to its persistent messages that I was harming it through drive and impossible ideals, rather than taking care and honouring it.

591. I have been the battery rabbit that goes’s on and on refusing to stop at all costs. Ask anyone that has been a passenger in my car on a long drive about wanting a comfort break. My life is now full of stops, and I has more space to being me.

     1. Classic. I had a friend like you were once and I kept asking for a comfort stop and he kept saying, just hang on a little longer, we’ve just passed that truck/car etc… I hung on until I realised that I actually had the upper hand. I said stop now or I’ll use your back seat as a toilet. He quickly pulled over. I’m glad he did not call my bluff!

     2. Totally relate to what you share Steve, to me a comfort stop was never part of a trip, they are just a waste of time, or so I thought.

592. This was a very timely read for me. I have been on holidays and worked most days or been busy with things. Today I stopped and just went, I am actually having the day off as I am exhausted. I have also stopped eating sugar, which I was relying on to get through the day. My body is finally letting go, I feel very tired, but its needed and its big to learn to just really stop and rest for a day.

593. Being able to stop has for a long time been like an alluring carrot at the end of our working week or at the end of semester or at the end of the year or often at the end of our working life but if we have lived up to that point in a momentum that has continuously rolled itself mechanically forwards in all that we’ve done then it simply won’t be possible to suddenly stop without the help of something like alcohol or an illness.

594. Imagine the meeting when we bring that overwhelm and machine like doing as opposed to someone who arrives feeling nurtured inside themselves and ready to share all that love. For the other people in the room they would feel that difference in quality, and it is inevitable that it would have a difference on the outcome.

595. It occurred to me Sarah whilst reading your blog that childhood for many of us was one glorious stop moment, despite the huge amount of movement that it contained, which sounds like an oxymoron I know but I am feeling more and more that stop moments aren’t necessarily about inactivity and conversely inactivity can be very busy indeed.

596. It comes down to two basic choices in our everyday way – we are either pushing through, rushing about and in a relentless, functioning mode or having a deeper awareness of our body and honouring it to bring forth a totally different QUALITY in everything we do. Choosing quality over quantity is what I am now working with in a more consistent way and my body much prefers it!
     “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output”.

597. Thank you Sarah for sharing this, the importance of stopping is huge and reading this brings home a sense of appreciating what stopping does bring us. If feeling unsettled I know now that my best way to go forward is to stop first, because if I just keep going then theres no stopping to check which path I am going down. And as others have shared in those moments when we may repeat to ourselves ‘I can’t’ is when we need to stop the most and when we do stop we get to be aware that we can stop despite the initial ‘I can’t’s’.

598. “I am learning to bring to a halt the relentless momentum that I have been living with that makes it difficult for me to stop”.
     On reading some dictionary meanings of the word ‘relentless’ it was interesting to see that amongst other words, there were several references to the heart. It is easy to see how being stuck in these inflexible momentums causes so much tension and hardness in the body, which can eventually lead to illness and disease. Ill-momentum is a relentless taskmaster if we don’t choose to bring it to a true stop when the body calls for it.

599. To communicate the frenzy one is on and then having somebody who points out that it is ok to stop and have a rest is already gold, then it is easier to give myself permission to let go of the world where I got too entangled in and come back to myself.

600. I have also found that the push through energy is exhausting in itself, with the mind racing ahead of the body to find ways of getting things done faster,when staying with the body gets things done as fast, or even faster without the exhaustion at the end of the day.

601. I truly appreciate the title of this blog Sarah as to me too it is worth to stop in the Name of Love. To allow love to guide me in my day is so nourishing to my body and my thoughts and in that to allow to stop myself if needed as it always brings that what is true.

602. “I realised that I actually do know how to stop, but I don’t put it into practice often enough.” this is amazing. It means if we do know how to truly stop we must always be living in a way that is avoiding the stop!

603. After reading your blog Sarah, I realise I don’t bring enough STOP moments throughout my day to appreciate myself and what is before me. I still tend to push myself to get things done and often feel like I haven’t done enough. I feel the combination of more STOP moments along with full appreciation of myself is key. Also choosing to honour my body more and more. Thank you Sarah, your blog has been hugely supportive for me and for others too.

604. How profound is this and a snippet of all the honouring and truth we do know, ‘I realised that I actually do know how to stop, but I don’t put it into practice often enough.’

605. “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” Spot on. We as a world community through technology have designed systems around output instead of quality based systems supporting, expanding producing output that then feedbacks back supporting people’s qualities.

606. My rhythm to the best of my ability now has a blend of continuous quality stops where if I am not knowing or focused in what I should be doing or, just cannot feel my quality I know I bring, its time for a mini-stop to nourish my connection to what is true to me in my body.

607. The racy, busy momentum of ‘doing, ‘doing’ creates a momentum that is out of accord with our own natural harmony. This rhythm of chaos simulates a kind of ‘life’ and definitely felt ‘reality’ that we comes to think of as our real life. But it is the very thing that stops us from accessing our real life. To call a stop to this is one magnificent move! Are we courageous enough to feel the beauty of this stillness in harmony? This blog celebrates that we are, and can do it! Thank you Sarah.

608. We are very good at putting everything before ourselves. Whether it’s others or work, we often can put ourselves last on the list. The self care philosophy of Universal Medicine is so simple – listen to and honour what your body is communicating. This can be surprisingly challenging to put into practice, as we as a society have built up momentums of achieving and “doing” almost at all costs. Fabulous reminders from you Sarah to continue to listen to the body and honour all it communicates.

609. We are really being asked to be responsible for the quality we bring to everything we do when we feel tired or when things feel out of control. Otherwise nothing changes and we make this way of living normal when this if far from the truth.

610. The doing is often driven by nervous energy for me and it is a constant work in progress to keep checking the quality of my presence – staying aware of my body with. This is the only way for me to change those ‘doing’ habits that are so exhausting and a precursor to illness.

611. Such a brilliant article Sarah. What you have described here applies to millions and millions of people, including myself. Huge proportions of the earth’s surface is enveloped in and dumped on by this excessive, seductive momentum and whirlwind of of busy-ness, rush, ‘accomplish accomplish’, achieve achieve’. It is so easy to get lost in the vortex of it, not realising that it is the quality of our expressions and actions that counts. The stop is a very powerful moment that, can, if consciously ad lovingly done, break the momentum and bring us back to our innermost heart, to love and divine intelligence.

612. Coming back to your so very timely blog Sarah has made it very clear that I am really great at suggesting to others that they have more stop moments but not quite as good at taking my own advice, but I feel that goes for a of lot us. So today is my day, the first of many days, to become so much more aware of when my body is suggesting very gently that it is time to stop, and to not wait until it yells STOP!!

613. A stop moment is a start moment for a greater quality of me in my life.

614. Stop moments help me make more of my life.

615. To stop gives you much needed insight and clarity. lt brings you a deeper connection to life.

616. Great subject, I can really relate. I am stilling learning the art of truly stopping and accepting the fact that the world will not fall apart if I do. This is super supportive for woman all over the world.

617. I read this blog yesterday and then had the busiest day at work and yes I stopped to eat lunch, but I didn’t actually really stop. I ate in a rush, trying to fit that in with too many other things and continued in that same rushed fashion, where I make it (just) to the next meeting and in a way it feels like life was on fast speed. The thing is, I told myself a few times to stop but I didn’t. The cup of tea in the afternoon was still not a stop and when I got home, I was still in this whirlwind that I had created and even at night, as I slept, I was still in it…. waking up, thinking, felt like I should just get up and keep doing and here I am now still in that same momentum the next day. So perhaps today, I can try again. Honour my stop moments and break the cycle. This rush and busy business is a long held pattern of mind so no beating myself up. Just bringing awareness and starting again today, bringing more love to me and everything I do.

618. Awesome blog, Sarah, thank you. There are certainly many different flavours to a ‘stop moment’ …. for me a stop moment was often a ‘check out’ moment, when I could completely switch off. However, I then started wondering, where am I in these moments and more importantly, if I’m not there, then who or what is! This not only affects me, but everyone around me, we all miss out on the lack of connection. The more care and love I allow myself the easier it becomes to stay present as why would I want to leave when I feel so yummy.

619. So interesting to read the comments here because it reminds me that it is such a big issue for so many people – that relentless drive to keep things going and when we stop – do we really stop to nourish ourselves? I mean to add to the blog that often I stop but as soon as I know it, the laptop or the iPhone are out – and my stop/rest is not really that at all. Like I said, a loving work in progress to stop to nourish and to stop in the name of love. Lovely to read the sharings of readers here, thank you.

620. I don’t smoke anymore, but I used to think I was stopping when I sat down to have a cigarette between tasks. The reality is I was creating more stress in my body. Other stop moments were associated with rewards, like having a cake or a bar of chocolate. Now I can tell the difference between those types of stops and true ones that are about taking care of me and as you say nourishing my body.

621. Mastering the art of resting is super important. It is not something we are taught to do. Instead, we can so easily go to ‘reward or checkout moments’ – like food, TV, reading a book or magazine… but these things are not actually deeply resting the body, as we could be.

622. ‘The world did not fall apart’ gosh it made me see the constant pressure I out on myself to get never-ending things done. I was speaking with a colleague today who started crying and saying how much pressure they put themselves under as well. Why do we do this to ourselves? And isn’t it funny (or not so funny!) that when we ‘think’ we are stopping we are not truly deeply stopping and letting our body rest. Awesome to here that you did stop and sharing to do this for ourselves as well.

623. Often the pressure ‘to get things done’, is driven by our own expectations and pictures that stops us from being open to what actually needs to be done, and how it needs to be done (in a way that is supportive for us).

624. When I do take time to stop and honour my body by resting, the momentum of nervous energy I was in comes to a halt… and what I then do after resting is completed more harmoniously, easily and often more quickly. Running in a momentum is making life a drama, whereas taking the time to honour ourselves and our bodies has a simplicity that is gorgeous to feel and very inspiring to live in.

625. It is difficult to stop when caught in the exhausting momentum of doing – when I’m in that it can be easy to even ignore the early signals that I need to go to the toilet. Taking moments out, like a walk at lunchtime, assists in keeping me on an even keel and not slipping into the whirl of things to do that can build during a busy work day.

626. A stop is very different to doing nothing; or reaching for the tea and biscuits as you describe Sarah. You know you have truly stopped when you are able to shift the quality in which you were operating; and not just bandaid it.

     1. Great point. as you say”…shift the quality in which you were operating…” Feeling aware that choosing a stop, is about choosing and changing the energy that we are, what momentum in life we choose.

627. Ah yes Sarah, the ability to stop eluded me for many years or so I thought. I am now making a choice to stop more often instead of focusing on just getting the job done. The benefits far outweigh the time you think you are saving by soldiering on. My health has improved significantly and my stress levels are much lower.

628. We can get so caught up in the doing without being aware of the quality of energy we are in when doing those tasks. It is the energy that is felt much more strongly than any words or actions, and that is what affects us and those around us the most.

629. We all know the headless chook scenario, well that comes to mind when we override our body and go into momentum. So easily done as there is always the next thing that presents to be dealt with. But I find when you are in a rhythm that supports the body, and you are moving in a quality of connection, everything gets done without the racing around and takes way less energy and is not draining. In this rhythm opportunities are presented to STOP and feel the stillness and space within honouring and nurturing the body🐔

630. It is quite a clever trick this momentum thing… taking us away from the stillness we naturally know ourselves to be. We keep going thinking the world will fall apart if we personally don’t continue on when in fact it is us who eventually ‘falls apart’ by living this way. And as you present here Sarah, whatever needs to be done gets done when we honour our bodies anyway!

631. Taking stop moments with quality are truly nourishing for the body, putting a halt to the constant doing, the times I get caught in what i am doing I end up feeling overwhelmed or exhausted. There has been a self identification in the doing in the past that no longer serves.

632. Stop for me is a moment I honour the body, to check the quality within and allow the space and stillness, then I move from there and I feel the whole body in connection with a clarity of purpose.

633. This is a beautiful reminder Sarah of the importance of accepting the feeling to stop and rest. I have definitely not always taken the time to stop, for all the reasons you have written. My experience when I have actually stopped, is similar to yours, in that I feel better and everything still gets done, no need for mad panic and rush, it all happens in time.

634. Thank you Sarah for your great reminder about taking stop moments when our body tells us we are tired. It is something I have not been so aware of in the past few weeks as I am busy sorting, discarding, and packing up for a big move in several days’ time. Although I have been mostly fitting in a daily walk (weather permitting) during this time, and have a few times driven quite a distance to have an occasional healing session to help support me, I have not been remembering to listen fully to my body and note the need to actually stop occasionally. It is quite a while since I have actually had a lie down on my bed with my eye pillows during the day. Although I have been carefully pacing myself with the daily job of preparing for my move, I know I am tired. Yet I had not until now realised that maybe I need to take that true rest for an hour or so, I have a feeling it will happen today, yes I am tired, and I now admit it.

635. It is super important to create and choose moments of ‘stop’ ourselves. Especially when we are not ‘wanting’ to fit them in ‘because we have so much to do’. Simply because we can connect back to ourselves and our breath, just in case we lost it! And so, we are here to bring connection (a repose) back in motion – instead of being it all about ‘the doing’, so stop moments can work very well to achieve that and have a more true and loving rhythm that does not forget to take care of the body but at the same time does the work it needs to do. We need to claim back our balance, and this is a way to start.

636. Taking a stop moment is so replenishing for the body when it is asked for, and to override it is to disregard/ignore what we know we really need to do which if done often enough, ends up as a physical symptom in the body. To think that by stopping to rest when we are tired rather than to keep going as we don’t get our ‘stuff’ done, is a pure illusion, as by resting when we need to we actually have more energy and vitality and can often do twice as much in half the time.

637. We live in a world that is all about function, pushing through and getting things done. No wonder exhaustion statistics are through the roof! Not only because of the motion most of us are trapping ourselves in, but also the energy source we are choosing to live from. Because of the teachings of Universal Medicine, I now understand that we are constantly under the influence of energy and there are only 2 types to choose from, one that is natural and cohesive to the body and our being and one that is not. Exhaustion not only comes from the doing, but like you say Sarah, the QUALITY of energy we are doing life in. One drains and one sustains, one empties and one fulfills, one reacts and one accepts.

638. The science of stop moments are always there to inspire and reignite the inner flame to burn brightly once again. We don’t even need to lay down for a stop moment (although, of course, that is often needed), we can simply take a moment to close our eyes and reconnect to our breath and movements wherever we are. Bus, tram, car (not driving!), work desk, toilet break, there are many opportunities throughout the day that will support a stop moment to reconnect to the knowing that we are indeed divinely Love inside and out.

639. It’s so important to listen to our bodies and not just let our thoughts override what we’re feeling!

640. The interesting thing is that the less we are driven by the ‘to-do’ list the more we get done because if we are with ourselves the body informs us what needs to be addressed and when, and then we flow in our own rhythm. As a consequence we have more energy and much more gets done without any push to do it.

641. Thank you Sarah for this reminder and invitation to stop whenever it’s needed to check the quality and the purpose that lays behind our task. This is an every moment job that I easily skip each time I step away from my body and then got caught by the to do list my mind has ready for me. The big challenge for me is to integrate once for ever that my value has nothing to do with how much I can achieve and that while I’m resting Life will keep going at its own pace. Yes definitely laying down with an eye pillow covering my eyes is the best way to repose, refresh and be loving with myself but also to others. If I’m fresh and in tune with me whoever is nearby will beneficiate of it too.

642. “. . .these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” Quality is indeed a key ingredient for when we bring ourselves totally to what we are doing we enjoy being with ourselves in the doing and the work gets done in a more harmonious flow without tension or effort.

643. “I am learning to bring to a halt the relentless momentum that I have been living with that makes it difficult for me to stop.” This momentum has been my pattern too, and though it is less, even getting caught in it just a little bit can throw my whole day out of rhythm.

644. “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” Absolutely true, the quality in which we do things is of vital importance, if we do things in love the end result will always be exactly what is needed.

645. ‘through Universal Medicine’s presentations, I am learning how to be with my body and listen to the wisdom it shares quietly, taking the moments to stop and be with my body and to nourish it.’ – Me too, there is no end to the wisdom our bodies shares as long as we are willing to truly listen.

646. Yes, I know the one, where I kept going and ignored the signals my body tried to give ending up sick or another major physical condition that made me stop, for I didn’t do that myself.

647. Beautiful blog Sarah – true stop moments are significant in our daily lives, and will highly influence the quality of the end product no matter what the product or task might be.

648. This week I presented a workshop ‘Stop and consider how you are’ at a company and all the women shared exactly what you wrote: they just kept going and found it very difficult to really stop and connect to their body to feel how they were. So used to putting work and others before themselves it was revealing to experience the simplicity of taking a moment and care for yourself.

649. Listening to our bodies is not a have to, but actually first-class love-support. How on earth can we function truly well when living from disconnection! I can honestly share that being with my body hasn’t been my greatest thing to do. But the more I listen to myself over the years, the more I start to enjoying being with my body, feeling myself inside my own body. Stopping the drives I often choose to go into is very needed and indeed a very nurturing and caring thing to do.

650. Well said Sarah ‘ The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off. I simply rested because that was what my body was sharing with me it needed to do.’
     Listening to the body, our most powerful teacher.

651. It is the mind that tends to be three steps ahead and drives us to complete the tasks quicker as it has impatiently moved to the next item on the list already. However when we stay with the body and honor its rhythm, any task is enjoyable and a natural love for detail and the quality it is done in arises.

652. The energy that keeps pushing us to do the next thing and the next does not want us to stop as it exists of its own momentum of drive and needs constant motion.

653. When we build in stop moments, to assess where we are at and arrest the energy that is exhausting us, we can then build a body that has the strength and vitality to work a lot and get a lot of things done.

654. Sometimes we are in such an ill momentum that we need to stop, re-gather ourselves and re-align before we continue to do anything. Otherwise we just keep going in that same ill energy and it becomes an endless vicious cycle of trying to get things done in a quality that simply exhausts us.

655. Thank you Sarah a truly relevant blog for me at the moment, where I am really picking up on someone who continues to fuss about everyone else but does not want to slow down herself. It is so important that we lovingly stop. Seeing this from the other side, it makes me anxious to see the person not stopping, and almost makes me question if I should do more – so you see not stopping is a full cycle of anxiousness – for the perpetrator and the receiver. If we stop and support our bodies, then what a loving reflection that is to the world.

656. A great sharing, Sarah and such a timely reminder for me. I am realising that I am in charge of me and there will always be things to do in our busy world so it is up to me to put in those stop moments -it is no-one else’s responsibility.If I do not choose to stop when needed my body will speak volumes in terms of an illness which would indeed stop me in my tracks!

657. I can feel my body almost reconfigure when I create stop moments during a busy day, it’s like my body is saying a huge ‘thank you’ for taking the time out and honouring what is needed.

658. There are times when I find it easy to stop, those are the times when I am well rested and I have been in a rhythm of stopping and my work load has not been too intense. The moment I feel my work load is building and the need to stop is all the more important I tend to override the loud signals my body is giving me to stop. It’s crazy that during the times I need the stop moments the most I focus on getting things done rather than create much needed space.

659. “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” I’d go so far as to say that the choice about the quality in which we do something is the most important thing. Large output in disregard of oneself is no match for a smaller output where quality is the focus. Quality over quantity – often said and yet ignored, however it is true.

660. I love it, thank you Sarah for sharing how important it is and how to “stop in the name of love”.

661. The feeling of not knowing how to stop is a trick from that part of us that wants to keep on going, for when we truly stop and connect more is felt and more awareness is accessible. We do know how to stop and what a blessing to have people in our lives that remind us of this fact when needed.

662. Sarah I love your blog because this is something I have been working with for years. I remember a time where stopping was sitting down on the edge of a chair and figuring out what I was going to do as soon as I got off it again. I can still get carried away with to do lists but am learning that even short stop moments to simply check in and change my quality from for example, tense to more surrendered, makes a huge difference.

663. To keep going is creating complications and time pressure as to stop is pure simplicity and making space in our body and in the situation where we are in.

664. I actually did stop when I read your blog, Sarah, did some very gentle exercises, mainly to make more space in my connective tissue and I feel how my body loves it. The momentum of keep going is strong as are the thoughts in my head to support the pressure I put on myself. It needs practice and honesty and the marker of this lovely feeling in my body.

665. Totally true (I have tried it yesterday), a nourishing stop changes everything that follows for the better.

666. The issue is not to learn how to ‘press the brakes’ so well so the vehicle stops. It is about not needing to press that hard for this to happen. Learning to stop from 170km/h to 0 is pretty impressive. Yet, perhaps there is no need to run at 170 km/h in the first place.

     1. Ha Ha ! Yes Eduardo.

667. There is a huge difference between stop moments that are all about rewards, and real stop moments that are all about nourishing you.

     1. Yes I am learning that Eduardo. I often stop and pull out my iPhone or sit on the computer, I mean to put that in the blog which are not the nourishing stops that our body is often asking for.

668. There are some moments where it gets really difficult to connect with the choice of stopping. It is like, even considering this possibility is totally alien from our body. This is a sign of how alienated we have allowed to become within our own body.

669. I find that when I don’t listen to my body’s signal Stop, invariably my Start and my ensuing journey becomes very wobbly and bumpy.

670. Stopping is very powerfull and so needed in our busy everyday lives, we know we need it, but often override it for the ideal of that we should be productive, but as you share in the second to last paragraph the quality of how we are productive is maybe even more important and is dependent on the care we have for ourselves. Stop moments are an important part in this.

671. In a world that is in constant motion to take a true moment to stop is very healing and offers the possibility to re-connect to the stillness we all are.

672. A great reminder that when we are on the run we sometimes really have to stop and literally sit down or lay down and rest. I also learned that to stop means to create space and hold yourself in this space, so not a real stop in terms of resting is needed as the stop is part of the quality we move in during our life. That way even sleep becomes just a different movement and a stop is only needed when we override this quality. It is of great joy to learn how to live in a quality that never exhausts us.

673. Quality first and quantity second is a wise rule for a truly successful life in every department. Most of us don´t learn that at home or in school so everyone needs to make it a choice and self-exploration in their everyday lives. It is never to learn what we anyway know to be true deep inside. Stopping is a good start to get a sense of that inner knowing by listening to the body as the body knows, it is that simple although not always easy but hey, it is worth it.

674. The balance of quality and quantity in what we do is key to being balanced within, it actually is one and the same – it is the balance of stillness and motion we all seek.

675. Why is it so hard to stop, and not just outwardly but also inwardly? Doing doing doing is the motor of our identification, the substitute for truly knowing and being ourselves, stopping then seems like losing who we are but actually it is in the stillness that we find who we truly are.

676. The ‘doing machine’ is tireless but not the body who knows that there is more to life than just producing results. Luckily the body gives us clear messages, as clear as necessary for us to listen and learn. Time to stop, listen and choose wisely.

677. I love the way you describe that there is a way to ‘truly stop’. To me this means letting go of and halting the momentum that has led me to a place where I am pushing myself to accomplish something.

678. Stop moments can be when I have an Esoteric Healing session and my body shows me very clearly where I’m at. Sometimes it’s a confirmation and I feel really vital, and at other times, I get to feel the tiredness or exhaustion in my body.

679. I can relate to having to learn the importance of stopping. I am learning to listen to my body, stop and appreciate that my body needs a rest and refocus.

680. Thanks Sarah, the body is the wisdom of all knowing and I feel we do not stop to check in with it because we already know this and don’t want to hear what it has to offer. It is time to appreciate, appreciate, appreciate.

681. I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output. This has absolutely been my experience too, when I rush to get something done the completed task feels awful and I want to re do it with my presence, love and care.

682. I don’t believe there would too many people who would not be able to relate to this blog Sarah. The interesting thing is – it simply boils down to good old, plain old, common sense!

683. Stopping is super powerful as it gives me the chance to check in and see where I’m at. If we don’t stop, and keep going, driven by our lists and tasks, when we do finally stop or are forced to stop by our body, we feel the momentum we’ve been in.

684. What would like be like if we honoured our bodies all the time?

685. Interesting to read this today as I had a little chat to myself this morning about this very issue. When we stop we really can stop in the name of love for we can reconnect to how precious we are and how much we deserve to be truly taken care of. All this rushing around to get things done is actually extremely disrespectful to the body and our body lets us know. I have been bumping into things this week and have bruises to show for it just because I have been in the ‘must get it done’ mindset a lot of the time. This mindset separates us from our connection with our body, compromising the quality of our movements and the imprint we leave behind.

686. Excellent blog Sarah and I love the title ‘STOP in the Name of Love!’ I’m going to stop right now and put it in my reminders in my iphone – all done!

687. Sarah this is great testament to the power of stopping. Not only are we more productive, we are in a far better quality when we take care to nurture ourselves and we have a responsibility in this.

688. Sarah your blog has been published at the perfect timing for me. Thank you for this very important reminder to stop. I have to say that I still resist this tooth and nail, often opting for the continued momentum of the dreaded to do list. And why, I ask myself? To which I do not have a response. Gosh even when I do stop, I don’t really…it’s often stopping to do something else. There is definitely something here for me to review.

689. And to the practical point, our bodies aren’t designed to be on the move all of the time. Lately I have been feeling resentful because I can’t go to bed at the hour I want because there is so much to get done. However this resentment came from me not giving myself the space to deeply rest.

690. There is a little bit of tension that creeps in I have noticed whenever I decide to have a stop, and because of that the stop is not, more an unsettled pause before leaping forth into the next thing. Doing some simple checking in with myself and some Connective Tissue exercises helps me come back to an element of stillness. It can be a bit of a yo yo effect but I now at least know what stopping and stillness feel like and that is a great start.

691. I have something similar going on, but it is not so much about exactly stopping, but bringing a far deeper quality of presence and stillness to how I work and move. This means that I do not get so caught up in the spin of the world and all the crazy stuff going on around me. Interestingly enough the more still and present I can be in my actions the more I get done and it all happens in quite a different and much more simple and harmonious way.

     1. Stillness as a quality has nothing to do with speed. Unimedpedia has a great description of Stillness – http://www.unimedliving.com/unimedpedia/word-index/unimedpedia-stillness.html which for me is the stop that nourishes me. We never truly stop or are still, in that our hearts keep beating and we are always moving and thinking even in our sleep.

692. We can very easily get ourselves into a spin of stress and tension, and often the most supportive thing to do is to stop and allow our body to bring itself back to present tense rather than continuing to try and move ahead of time to ‘get things done’.

693. Implementing these ‘stop’ moments into our days is so important, as it offers us an opportunity to touch base with ourselves – how we feel, what we’ve observed in the day so far, what the quality of our movements are and so forth. This can support us hugely to stay present and observant throughout the rest of the day, and not get caught up in rushing or overwhelm.

694. What you have shared here is GOLD: “Even then, when I did stop, I never really stopped to truly rest or nourish my body. When I ‘downed tools’ I stopped for a cuppa and a biscuit, just as I used to stop with a glass of wine and a cigarette: or when I ignored nearly all of the messages to stop from my body, it increased the intensity of the messages and said very loudly, ‘STOP!’ and I got sick and was forced to stop and rest – often feeling like my body had betrayed me.” – a true stop is only a true stop if we allow the outer to fall away and the superficial to fall away and then just feel the depth of what lies within.

695. I love what you have shared here Sarah – I too have trouble stopping, as there is just so much to get done. But in this we can get undone! Stopping is something I certainly need to practice – not just the stop, but the surrender to the stop. That is the key! Thank you for this gorgeous reminder.

696. Sarah, thank you – this I needed to read today as I’ve been in a flurry of activity to get things done and I’ve not been taking the time to rest. And reading today I got to clearly see and feel this is not ok, yet still I do it, and you remind me that ‘these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.’ – which begs the question why would I produce something without the quality of who I am? I can feel more rest coming on and more stops to feel and allow space for what is needed.

697. I can now hear the song “Stop in the name of Love” joyfully, lightly nudging me that its time to take space for me.

698. “Even then, when I did stop, I never really stopped to truly rest or nourish my body.”
     As Serge Benhayon has always presented you can be lying prostrate in bed looking like you are resting but in truth if you have not prepared yourself for that rest and allowed your head to slow down and connect more with your body then there is no true rest – for the body although physically still is still in cellular motion.

699. Today unless you are feeling really ill, taking ourselves off to bed, or lying down for a rest is rarely a consideration – I remember when I was breastfeeding my youngest of three I frequently felt utterly exhausted and yet I was so resistant to going to bed – I felt like I didn’t want to be alone – which reveals in itself much about the relationship or lack that I had with myself – indeed I feel this is common today – people are so tapped into the world around them that they have forgotten how to be quietly with themselves.

700. The thought that things won’t get done when we take a moment to rest instead of doing something is a huge illusion. If we are rested and connected to our bodies much more gets done and it is more pleasant too!

701. I love what you say here Sarah about world not falling apart – it makes so much sense to me that you go about your day much more openly rather than carrying around the tension of your “to do list” (boy oh boy do I know this well) – it’s beautiful that by making space to care for ourselves we actually create the space to get things done.

702. To stop and just be is actually very natural and something I remember doing a lot of as a kid. What makes this change when it is actually very beautiful and natural to do? Is it possible that we are not living our truth and we know it so and to stop would only reveal an emptiness that we know should not be there?

703. I have been one of the people that unless the end of the day was full of jobs done, it didn’t feel fulfilled. So I wrote lots of lists and ticked them off as the day progressed, patting myself on the back for my achievements, feeling better as the list got completed. The only time I would stop was when I was ill, and unable to push through it, so to feel an illness as a stop moment being lovingly given to me, is huge. And to take notice now before any illness, it feels more obvious to understand how we are in our quality doing a task is so important, not the number of things we do.

704. Something that struck me too is that many would consider they do stop at the end of the day, or like you said Sarah for a coffee and biscuit, or for smoko etc. but the key to stopping I find is in the completely rested state of the body. If this doesn’t happen, it’s not really a stop that supports, but just another thing we do in the day.

705. Thanks Sarah, we have become so accustomed to doing our way through life that stop moments as you’ve described become very difficult to take. Understanding their value and re-training ourselves to listen to the body and take proper rest when it’s needed will be crucial to our ongoing state of health and wellbeing.

706. A super relateable blog Sarah. Recently work has been full and the list long, the urge to do too much was strong so on waking this morning I gave myself the grace and extra space (despite the mountain of things that need attending to today) to feel my stillness and go with that as I prepared for the day. I recognise it can be a bit of a tussle at times, but I love the way you explain “these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” Something very well worth reminding myself of when I feel the push coming in.

707. A great reminder for us all Sarah, to take the time to stop, even if we don’t think we have the time, for as you have shown these stop moments have amazing benefits. Regular stops during our day to check in with how we are feeling, and to rest, even if only for a few moments, should definitely be part of our daily “medicine”.

708. Stopping in the name of love, this is so powerful and really changes the quality of our day when we do . However it is usually when we most need to that we tend to override it, as not being able to as you share, and this is the beauty of your blog and sharing, bringing a reminder to us as we do know the difference it makes and how space opens up when we do, and everything flows into a balance lovingly.

709. Great that you expressed your appreciation for you taking the time to stop. I have so often suggested it to others but am only recently starting to take my own advice and have been surprised at how hard I have found it. Stopping the momentum of nervous energy that winds you up like a spinning top that falls over when it stops has been challenging but I feel inspired to explore this and commit to finding more ways of gently caring for myself with stop moments.

710. ‘I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.’ This is so supportive Sarah because I have struggled with incorporating Stop moments into my day but can feel how much more joyful the quality of what I achieve is when I am allowing myself to rest when the body communicates with me that this is what is needed instead of continually pushing through to get ‘stuff’ done.

711. Sarah I love this, the illusion of pushing through and keeping on going. Wow I have big to do lists and when I push through them feel shattered. Yet the most important thing that I am learning and find great to be reminded of is “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.”

712. ” I am learning how to be with my body and listen to the wisdom it shares quietly, taking the moments to stop and be with my body and to nourish it.” As Serge Benhayon says “the body is the marker of truth”. If we truly listen to it then we can pause or even stop if necessary – and re-align. If we don’t, it shouts with an accident or illness, then we really have to stop.

713. Stopping defies time and expands space.

714. Sarah, this is such a relevant topic in these times where everything is 100miles an hour and everyone claims to be so busy. But perhaps it is trusting in the stop, because if we stop fully then when we restart we are much more efficient and the busyness if it is still there is much more manageable. We are all capable of great things and much work, but it is always a question of the quality we take to that work and our ability to not let distractions come in.

715. What I find so beautiful about ‘stopping’ is the immense healing then it is for me to even carry out this intention. What I mean is that before the rest has even happened and irrespective of it, the very fact that I have claimed myself over my day and whatever is going on, is a gigantic support – and that is even before my body has had 20 minutes to relax. It’s a very profound choice.

716. It’s crazy that we can be so involved with work that even when we have a day off there is this belief that something serious will happen in our absence and yet quite often nothing major ever does. And like wise taking a whole hour off for lunch and taking the time to stop is so valuable, especially as the work will still get done and with a rested body.

717. Sarah, it is lovely reading this article and about how you allowed yourself to stop. I can relate to being caught up in the momentum of keeping going and thinking I will stop when I have got everything done, but of course the list is endless and so it is easy to not stop.

718. Awesome Sarah, I too am learning what stopping actually means – I used to think it was lying on the sofa watching a movie or doing nothing on a day off but then found I actually felt more tired afterwards than I would have if I had been at work! Learning to nurture my body is an on going process something I have resisted and do not always feel to give it enough time but the more I do the more I cherish myself and those around me so it is a win win for all involved!

719. Ha ha This line made me laugh “The world did not fall apart” but it also shows the arrogance we have in a belief we may hold, that because we stop for a moment everything an everybody else will collapse. It’s a bit like trying to save the world.

720. This is such a valuable lesson Sarah. It’s something I have to remind myself to do too. I cancelled a whole day recently because I knew I needed to rest deeply. It transformed the way I felt and in the following days I felt refreshed and revitalized and much more capable of getting everything done!

721. Our bodies are but a very magical tool that can guide us through the darkest of nights and deepest of shadows to the divine and glorious light.

722. “listen to the wisdom it shares ” this is a beautiful line that makes my whole body smile.

723. Working in a busy supermarket where I am not able to fully stop until my break, or the end of my shift, I am learning to give myself moments of grace, pauses to feel my body, and check the steadiness of my breath. The more I can do this the easier it becomes to bring myself back if I have found myself a bit racy by the end of the day. I love your title…..STOP in the name of Love….how can we not stop when we make it about love

724. agghhh

     “I just kept going.

     Just get this job done.
     Just tidy up the kitchen.
     Just send that email.
     Just put that load of washing on… and then I will stop.”

     I can totally relate to this, my body will be very loudly and lovingly sharing with me to sit down, stop and I keep going, it can even be with over thinking, it doesn’t have to be a physical thing. For me this is a drive of my spirit which I choose to stop me surrendering to the stillness and all knowing inside my body. Why, because life would b every very simple, super joyful and amazing if I did so, and that means giving up the identification with struggle / complication that a part of me, which I allow, my spirit so enjoys, as a form of stimulation/ identification with being separate and not part of an incredible universal whole, so it doesn’t have to surrender to the fact it is divine.

725. It is so beautiful to read about someone affording themselves the grace to rest, nourish and nurture themselves and it is true inspiration. Thank you, Sarah.

726. Sometimes I find my mind as well running like a duck with no end, and then I say ‘stop’ to my mind. Often I have to repeat it a few times and I imagine my thoughts like a dog and tell them: stop! sit down. stay! Stay!! lay down and stay…and I make a different move and than I feel the space opens up again.

727. I am also finding the importance of stop moments in my day. I am finding by honouring myself more it becomes easier to feel when I drift away from myself, and this allows me to come back quicker.

728. Every morning I do my gentle exercises and finish it with a ‘stop’ – I feel my body in every joint and become aware of the stillness in me. This is my marker for the day and no matter what my day may discover and end up – the next morning I will have my ‘stop’ and feeling moment. I am very glad to have this in my life and this blog reminds me to appreciate my choice to have it. Thank you.

729. Sometimes it is to just stop the energy of drive in which we do things. When we move with an awareness of our inner stillness we do not put pressure on our physical body.

730. The fake-stops are so important to get honest about! We seem to stop, but don’t truly stop and don’t get any rest. To bring awareness to these pockets of lies in our life is so supportive. For many sleeping is such a fake stop. When there is no winding-down and heavy or sugary meals before sleeping the body doesn’t stop even though there is some form of sleep.

731. Sometimes the best thing we can do when we want to keep going is to stop.

     1. very true!

732. “Even then, when I did stop, I never really stopped to truly rest or nourish my body.” So important why to make the stop A STOP else are we truly stopping or just continuing the momentum.

733. A Parable of Truth. “Some suggestions then came forth about how to stop and I realised that I actually do know how to stop, but I don’t put it into practice often enough.”

734. Thank you Sarah Flenley, i love it, I had the music and the visual going off in my head of Diana Ross and the Supremes when I think about the times I override how I feel and push through and this I feel will stick with me if I go to do something that is not self loving I shall hear the words Stop in the name of Love.

735. Love this Sarah,
     My body is forever surprising me as to what it needs and sometimes it needs a stop moment in the throws of my working day, which we tend to think is impossible. But if I feel this and allow myself to settle deeper into my body, this is a stop, because the momentum of push or rush that I may have been working from is stopped in the moment. Then I can continue to work with more tenderness, which actually takes a lot less energy. At the end of the day my body greatly thanks me when I have halted the momentum of push.

736. Thanks Sarah, love your lighthearted style of writing. It’s interesting how we often are running with this idea that if we stop, the world will stop and the task will never get done – but actually, when we truly stop and rest because our body is demanding us to, and not because we feel like checking out or having a break, or some ‘me time’, the space opens up for the thing to get done, and/or our relationship with the all-important make or break task shifts and we are able to work with it differently, and often more efficiently.

737. Life really IS more joyful when we stop to connect to the quality that we’re in and how present we are in that moment. I’m learning that I feel so much more energised and connected to myself at the end of the day if I’ve actually been listening to my body throughout the day – and then following its impulses, rather than the task-master, harsh director of the to-do list that sits in my mind and I can let drive me all day.

738. Thank you, Sarah, for this timely reminder. It makes me wonder what the world would be like if we did an experiment and all ‘downed tools’, to focus on the quality rather than the output as you say. Even if we did it for just one day, things would never be the same again. I love how simple it can be to choose love and connection over stress.

739. ‘The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off.’ How often have I told myself that! I am gradually learning to fully embody this knowing. The true world is the inner world, the world of our quality, and while we do have to play our part in the outer world and bring true love and truth to that, the world is not going to fall apart if we take a stop.

740. Sarah, I just LOVE this blog – so beautifully and refreshingly written. I found out the same thing recently when I broke my foot and had to lie on a couch for 3 months. It was a brilliant healing and clearing, and, I have since found out, the clearing was even deeper than I knew. It wasn’t something that happened to specifically make me stop, as it had another purpose. But part of it was realising that in fact I needed to take more stops in the day, and surrender utterly to tasks which had nothing to do with getting computer work done, or work preparation done; surrendering to loading the dishwasher in complete honouring of my Universal Connection!

741. Brilliant blog Sarah! and the pivotal statement that makes all the difference, is how you share…”when I choose the quality in which I do something…” as in choosing the quality, automatically bring a closer connection to the body, reducing the tension and momentum we can often find ourselves in. Self Caring whilst in activity – the way to reduce and even stop exhaustion, fatigue and burnout I’d say.

742. Reading this, I can feel how there’s for me this ‘I want to get this right’ even when it comes to taking a stop, therefore trying to figure out the way to listen and honour my body while trying to be efficient and productive, and what I am feeling is that it’s not even something I can manipulate, there’s much more there to be trusted and surrendered into.The Way is not for me to conjure up, it is here already.

743. Recently I have really had to look at how difficult it’s been for me to stop, I mean completely stop. I will often remind friends, family and clients to stop and rest and one day realised I was not doing it for myself. When I first started to stop I would just sit down or lay down and try to do nothing but relax, I would then fall asleep. This was showing me how tired I was but more recently I realise sleeping was also a way to avoid truly slowing down and stopping any heightened activity or nervous energy in my body to bring more stillness snd a complete stop.. Instead I’d pass out for 30 or 60 min and then get up and go straight back into the motion I was in in my day. So today I’m learning to take 10 or 20 minutes regularly to not just stop still but to feel my body and stop the momentum of thoughts or activity and stimulation in my body and instead start to feel a stillness or like an oasis of deep surrender.

744. A stop is a pause – a moment of grace in which to feel the All that we are, calling to be lived once more.

     1. Beautifully said Liane, I will take this into my day…all that we are calling to be lived once more.

745. This all rings so very true for the vast majority of us Sarah. So lost have we become in the hum and buzz of our busy 21st century lives that we have stopped seeing that there is another way to be amidst it all. That is, there is a way to hold ourselves steady in the ceaseless momentum we stand in where we do not absorb the frenzy that otherwise seeks to enter our bodies and so rule them/us under such impost. This is the gold in the esoteric teachings presented by Serge Benhayon, that there is a way to ‘swim like a fish in the sea and not get wet’.

     This is a continual mastering process and one where we are forever deepening in our ability to offset the external onslaught that seeks to uproot us from our otherwise innate Stillness. Sometimes we will need to arrest this love-less momentum with a physical stop, particularly if more subtle suggestions of ‘stops’ signalled by the body were overridden and or completely ignored. Other times it will be as simple as choosing to move in a way that is not in step with the outer chaos but more in tune with the inner rhythm (love) that beats within us all and is in accordance to the greater Universal rhythm we are held in and by. We all know this tune, but due to our choice to live less than the love that we are and the ensuing love-less momentums we have allowed ourselves to become entangled in, it has become a distant melody, if even heard at all, rather than the creed by which we live our lives.

746. I agree, Sarah. Very little is more important than appreciation.

747. “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something” – I totally agree with this. What I am also learning is that going into overwhelm is one of the indulgences that I choose to do when I do not want to face the fact that I abandoned my responsibility to take care of myself.

748. Love allows for space and without truly stopping we cannot connect and feel space.

749. I can very much relate to what you have shared here Sarah. I use to think that I needed a couple of hours for a stop moments or half a day. What I have since realised is that the more I am choosing to be with my body generally throughout my day, the stop moments may only need to be a minute or so here or there. I have realised that I have been holding certain pictures around what a stop moment actually looks like and to be open to them being very simply a moment of absolute full presence of appreciation of being with me.

750. It is good to read this blog because I too found I hadn’t really understood what it was to stop. I still find it crazy and still have to remind myself but slowly I am retraining. This is vital for health and well-being.

751. ‘I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output’, I would venture to say that the energetic quality in which we do things and the choices that we make in life have far greater significance than our actual output. The first two lead us back to God and the other, when attemped with no regard to quality, takes us away.

752. Here’s the ironic thing. When you actually start to develop a relationship with your body based on an honest assessment of where it is at, rather than based on the “can do” philosophy” that treats the body like a machine, you actually start to build a body that in the long term develops a vitality that actually allows you to get more done.

753. This blog Sarah is like a telegram you have sent to the world ~ “Dear humanity – how are you? STOP Health statistics not looking so great are they? STOP It’s been a while that you have been living like this hasn’t it? STOP Have you ever consider that there might be something you could do differently? STOP What if the rushing and drive you get yourself in doesn’t actually end like you think it does when you go to bed at night? STOP What if you took a moment to cease and desist and found out that you were actually Love underneath? STOP Then you would have to consider that this rushing around is just a trick, a game that you no longer need to play STOP…. so STOP with Love”.

754. This is simple and beauty-full and so, very needed to be read by all. Thank Sarah

755. ‘The world did not fall apart. It did not end because I took two hours off’, Sarah I understand implicitly what you mean by saying ‘I took 2 hours off’ but what mind set have we backed ourselves into when we say ‘off”? Off what? I feel that it’s linked to this idea that so many of us have about being ‘productive’, as in unless we are actually ‘doing’ something then we aren’t contributing but this is such a false perception, not only that but it leads people away from the truth, which is, it is the state of our being that is the only real contributing factor to life. When we do something, make something, say something, think something, invent something and it comes from an energetic source that heralds ‘doing’ as it’s figurehead then it is of no benefit to humanity.

756. Sarah it’s fascinating isn’t it that when so many of us stop to ‘have a rest’ we choose to eat, drink or smoke something that actually speeds our bodies up. What then happens is that we assume that we have had a little pep up from our rest and we launch into more doing, not consciously aware that our bodies have been revved a little by sugar or caffeine and are actually less able in many ways to keep going and in more need than ever before of a rest.

757. Sarah what you have shared is of huge significance to the vast majority of people. I would say that the time pressure that most of us feel and the constant mental referencing to our ‘to-do’ lists is the bane of our lives. The fact that you have managed to choose to honour what your body is communicating with you and not ignore it, is such an inspiring and pivotal antidote to the stress and feelings of overwhelm that so many of us feel.

758. I received this message of stop yesterday loudly and I have to say no to what I cannot handle. It is great to first be honest and accept my capability and then when I have stoppepd, to reflect where more responsibility can be taken. No judgement, no critique, no guilt, just responsibility.

759. Stopping to rest supports the body in its energy level and i know that when i stop i can feel that i’ve come back to me/myself… which shows that the non-stopping has taken me away from me and i’ve been dis-connected, and why i feel so exhausted at the end of a day. Though I have had times when stopping is equally a stop of appreciation of my day – a connected quality, where i’ve enjoyed and been really productive without wearing myself out in the process. To stop, is to review – the great, and not so great.

760. Love what you share here Sarah, you’re dead right, stopping sounds easy to say that you’ll do it, though not only is it not so the case for many of us (and i include myself here at times too when i find myself rushing at work), but it’s also the actual quality of the stop is equally a factor — I can find i may stop, but am actually still going/racing inside, and so my body is not resting just because of a physical stop. To stop for me is to just let go and allow things to be for a moment.. to really be with the body, listen and rest.

761. I have been learning the importance of STOP moments also Sarah and it was great to read your sharing of your journey to STOP! Having learnt to listen more to my body and heed the advice that it gives, instead of over riding it ! With the loving support of the Universal Practitioners and the presentations of Serge Benhayon I am finding it easier to listen to these warnings and if I don’t there are always consequences such as injury or fatigue .

762. At last.. a true stop moment where we listen to the call of our body. There is only so long we can override all of its messages before something forces us to stop. How deeply nourishing is it to pay attention to these messages and give our body the space it deserves.

763. Excellent Sarah! – is a true measure of success how much we get done, or the quality that we live in when we do what we do?..

764. Oh Sarah Flenley stop it, kidding, sorry. Great timing for this blog for me, and it is something I have always known but not given much of the time of day to, “I am learning that life is simply more joyful when I choose the quality in which I do something and that these choices about my quality are equally as important as my actual output.” I have many stop moments and while there are big ones involving sitting down or sleeping, there are also little ones, in the car, at work, at home when I just allow my body to settle and let my shoulders go. Little stops to check in and see how I am breathing. There will always be a million things to do and so it makes sense to have the quality of you in it. P.S. I stopped to read this blog.

765. I can relate Sarah, as we can so easily get caught in the “I just have to do one more thing” and it never ends.
     Taking time to stop really is about appreciating what you do and knowing that you are worth a stop and that you don’t need to do everything to be super woman. I have learnt that when I do honour myself and stop, the work I get done afterwards is so much more productive and focussed, rather than scattered and done like a tired, headless chicken running circles around itself.

766. I love your blog Sarah, everything you’ve shared I can deeply relate to. I too find it difficult to STOP and when I do it is often not done with quality and conscious presence but with raciness and lots of busy thoughts. The push to continue on doing what I was doing when my body was clearly asking me to STOP, rest and reconnect. I find this leads me to be disconnected, I easily react to minor situations and people, and not able to truly function to my fully capacity or potential. So, having these stop moments throughout our day when our body is communicating to us to do so is deeply loving to honour and actually is more productive than we think. Like you’ve shared the list of stuff you had got done even though you took 2 hours off to fully STOP, care and nurture yourself. It is a bit like taking our body to be serviced and refuel so it can function to its full capacity with quality. It makes sense and it is very loving to listen to our body and honour its messages because it deeply supports us on so many levels and in turn this supports others too.

767. Taking time to stop . . . hm . . . a good blog to ponder on for people like me who also don’t know how to stop. Like you, I sometimes lie down with eye pillows – 20 minutes as a refresher, and that feels lovely.

768. Discovering that “Stopping in the name of Love” based on truly caring for ourselves doesn’t cause the world to stop is quite a revelation. In fact the paradox is more space opens up and everything is covered in the appropriate way that is called for. Thanks Sarah I love what you have shared.

769. It is great to be able listen to our bodies and stop instead of being driven by our mind like a bulldozer always wanting to push through .This is a great reminder of how important taking short breaks in our day to day lives when needed.

770. Definitely a blog I can relate to! Learning to ‘STOP’ is something I am continually working on, and invariably if I don’t listen to my body and over-ride the ‘get ready to stop’ signals, I am forced to STOP in some way or another. Thank you for this reminder to stop and to appreciate that this is a time to reconnect, in order that we ‘can’ keep doing the things we need to do.

771. These stop moments are incredibly important… And at the start they can be, as the writer says, very elusive. But they are actually essential, crucial, for our well-being, and our development, indeed our energetic evolution revolves around us being able to stop… In the name of love.

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