It is undeniable that most of us live a fast-paced existence that includes instant gratification and Instant Breakfast. We have fast-food communication with our family, friends and co-workers that leave much to be desired, since it lacks the interpersonal feeling of eye contact or at least voice-to-voice inflection. We spend our workdays living for the weekend when we mistakenly believe we will slow down, but then fill the 72 hours from Friday night to Sunday night getting the tasks done at home that we didn’t have time to accomplish during our workday. If we “take time off,” it is generally filled with hustle and bustle travel to someplace away from home. Rare is the person who takes a “staycation,” during which they kick back and do nothing but eat, sleep and breathe.
Stephanie Brown, PhD, author of Speed: Facing Our Addiction to Fast and Faster — And Overcoming Our Fear of Slowing Down says “many kids haven’t experienced slow time at the dinner table with everybody present,” when Gallup finds that more than 80 percent of American families with children eat together at least four times a week.
[For more of this story, written by Edie Weinstein, go to http://psychcentral.com/lib/tr...nto-slow-and-steady/]
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