The Slow Living concept is a lifestyle choice that puts the emphasis on relationships:

to people
to food & drink
to our environment. It’s a vision for a life in balance between our obligations and choosing leisure. None of these concepts are new - if fact, in the past they were better understood.

Remember when appliances were pitched as time-saving devices? People didn’t think, ‘Yay! That gives me more time to work”. Remember there is a time when people literally died trying to advocate for a forty-hour work week.

These days it’s almost a contest to see who is busiest and most ragged and worn out.

LIFEHACK

A long (long, long) time ago, I graduated with a degree in Leisure. Even in the early 1990s the evidence was conclusive that reclaiming the luxury of leisure makes for happier people - and that stress based illnesses were on the rise (and preventable). The real cure for the busy-ess of the modern era is place value on leisure, then slow down enough to appreciate it.

Want to be more contented? Slow Down. Do leisure. Unplug.

5 Scientifically Proven Benefits To Unplugging

Here are some of my favorite quotes in support of a slower life:

For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
- Lily Tomlin
In an age of speed, I began to think, nothing could be more invigorating than going slow. In an age of distraction, nothing can feel more luxurious than paying attention.
- Pico Iyer
The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.
- Sakyong Mipham
Almost everything will work better if you unplug it for a few minutes, including you .
- Anne Lamott
Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
It takes courage to say yes to rest and play in a culture where exhaustion is seen as a status symbol.
- Brene Brown