The Cambridge Dictionary defines the word Hiatus in the following way:
a short pause in which nothing happens or is said, or a space where something is missing. Alternative words (synonyms for my English fans) include: pause, interlude, lull. In many ways, people have experienced this phenomenon in their lives over the past several months. If you are a follower of Haelen Hands either through Facebook or Instagram, you may have noticed a pause in my posting of late.
My hiatus from posting does not mean that I am not an active participator in life at the moment or that I have abandoned by business, Haelen Hands, quite the contrary, actually. I have been able to continue hand readings through remote sessions using Zoom, which have been fun, lively and lovely all at the same time. I miss the in person contact and hope that there is a way sometime in the near future that I can resume my monthly visits to the North Branch Cafe, doing the mini readings. My myofascial practice, like many in the hands on community, has been impacted the greatest by Covid. So some of this time, in the "space of nothing happening" has had me working on creative ways of trying to make this happen again in a way that feels safe to everyone involved and I took an Equine Myofascial course! YES, the manual skills I use with humans can greatly help our animal friends as well.
I think another reason for my pause, my interlude has a great deal to do with how I am working through the state of the world at this time. While Covid, and its ramifications for those in face to face careers, has impacted my very small business (and for a great many weeks, my job at an outpatient clinic), it has given me a personal pause, one that I think that many of us do not take on a regular basis. One that has allowed me to slow down, to stop and pause before acting. It has helped me glean what is important right in the moment that I am living in. It is giving me time to reflect and help to really process the many feelings about the ongoing conflicts in the world. Sometimes we all just need a hiatus....
a short pause in which nothing happens or is said, or a space where something is missing. Alternative words (synonyms for my English fans) include: pause, interlude, lull. In many ways, people have experienced this phenomenon in their lives over the past several months. If you are a follower of Haelen Hands either through Facebook or Instagram, you may have noticed a pause in my posting of late.
My hiatus from posting does not mean that I am not an active participator in life at the moment or that I have abandoned by business, Haelen Hands, quite the contrary, actually. I have been able to continue hand readings through remote sessions using Zoom, which have been fun, lively and lovely all at the same time. I miss the in person contact and hope that there is a way sometime in the near future that I can resume my monthly visits to the North Branch Cafe, doing the mini readings. My myofascial practice, like many in the hands on community, has been impacted the greatest by Covid. So some of this time, in the "space of nothing happening" has had me working on creative ways of trying to make this happen again in a way that feels safe to everyone involved and I took an Equine Myofascial course! YES, the manual skills I use with humans can greatly help our animal friends as well.
I think another reason for my pause, my interlude has a great deal to do with how I am working through the state of the world at this time. While Covid, and its ramifications for those in face to face careers, has impacted my very small business (and for a great many weeks, my job at an outpatient clinic), it has given me a personal pause, one that I think that many of us do not take on a regular basis. One that has allowed me to slow down, to stop and pause before acting. It has helped me glean what is important right in the moment that I am living in. It is giving me time to reflect and help to really process the many feelings about the ongoing conflicts in the world. Sometimes we all just need a hiatus....
RSS Feed