Slowdown Sunday Welcome

Yes, it's Sunday. It is Sunday. Congratulations. It is well with you. It is well with the work of your hands. It's well with your family. It is well with your soul, your body, your mind, and your spirit. We're just gonna declare everything well. Even if it doesn't feel well, you can still declare it well. Welcome. Welcome to the sweet spot. It is Slowdown Sunday. And we've been doing a wonderful series this week on the four agreements. This book by a wonderful author, Don Miguel Ruiz. And in this book, we have learned that we've been living under some agreements that we just needed to shut down so that we can be under some better agreements. And that's what we did. Yes, yes, yes. So it's slowdown Sunday. It's time to chill. We're not adding anything more. We're just gonna slow it down. We are going to slow it down because you've worked really hard this week. You've had a long week, and you deserve to slow down. All week we moved, we acted, we wanted things, we trusted things, we finished things. Today, today we're gonna do something that takes more courage than all of that combined. We're gonna really come to still down and stop and surrender. Not because we're done, but because the universe has been trying to tell us something all week. And most of us, most of us have been moving so fast, too fast to hear it. And that's the thing. On Sundays on the sweet spot, for those of you who are regulars, you know that we dabble in a little bit of the astrophysics, right? Not because we're astrophysicists by any stretch, but because the universe is always speaking, the universe always has something to share with us. And the universe doesn't hustle. That's why we call it Slow Down Sunday. The universe doesn't hustle, it just operates. Stars don't burn out, proving their brightness. Seasons don't apologize for changing. Tides don't negotiate their rhythm. And yet everything just gets done in the universe when you look around. The sun is rising and setting, the moon appears, the grass is growing, the trees are blowing in the wind. It's amazing. The birds are being fed. It's fascinating. So the only question that matters today is this What if you lived, what if we lived more like the universe and less like someone trying to outrun it? Yeah, yeah, this whole week we did the four agreements. And I think it's time we take a breath that we don't rush through anything. Because light in the universe takes time. The light from distant stars left thousands of years ago. When we look up at these stars, what we're looking and seeing is the past. Most of what you're reacting to right now in life is old light, old wounds, old stories. Part of what life is asking us to do is to give the present a chance to show up, to show us something new. Dark matter holds everything together in the universe invisibly. Eighty-five percent of the universe's mass cannot be seen. You can't see it, and yet everything is somehow held together. You don't see gravity. You know, your self-talk is dark matter too, in a way. What we say to ourselves is dark matter. The invisible things that we say to ourselves that holds our world together or actually pulls us apart. Whatever we say to ourselves has a meaning as to how we're going to experience life. So guard what no one else can hear, guard your dark matter. Every star has a life cycle as well, and even the largest stars have a cycle. You know, stars go through the cycle where they burn, they collapse, and they form new stars. And your collapse in life, sometimes we collapse, and it's not failure. Sometimes things have to break down. And that necessary process of breaking down and beginning again is not you falling apart, you're just becoming something new. There's a term called entropy, and it's quite natural. The universe is really kind of scattered, and things are just moving in all these directions. The universe moves towards rest before it reorganizes at a higher level. And sometimes you have to be in a scattered state, you have to be in a random state before you can reorganize. That's the universe's design that you're mirroring. And today, in Slowdown Sunday, you're running that perfectly. Like you wake up when it's light and you go to bed when it's dark, you know when it's time to eat, you know when it's time to rest. It's amazing that you're tied into the universe. Your sleep and wake cycle is governed by a star that's 93 million miles away. Sunlight. You and I were never designed to override our own rhythms. So that's why we have Slowdown Sunday. Slowing down Sunday isn't about um, it's not optional self-care, it's a cosmic compliance that we're trying to do. We're trying to tie into the universe. Yeah, we started this week with the four agreements. Today I'm giving you five more. Nothing from the book. This week is just this, these are the sweet agreements. Let's call them the sweet agreements. I want you to one, agree to move at the speed of truth. Not your urgency, not anxiety, not somebody else's timeline, but your own truth. Move at that speed today. Two, I want you to agree that rest is not just you giving up or retreating, it's the dark matter holding your structure together. Three, I want you to agree with me that we are made of the same elements as everything that has ever existed. And that's kind of true. We don't have to borrow worth from anyone. Everybody's got carbons and hydrogens and atoms in them. Agree that your cycles are not weakness, they are your rhythm. Agree that you're going to align with your rhythm. Agree to finish this week in balance, in stillness, in self-care. Agreements. That's what we're having this week. We're having agreement talks. The whole week was about the four agreements. What can you agree to today that's brand new? How can you rest and slow down? What does the ancient wisdom want you to do? The ancient wisdom will remind you that in Genesis, God rested on the Sabbath. Not because God was tired, but God's modeling something. The ancient wisdom will tell you that in Psalm 46, 10, you've got to be still and know that stillness isn't passive, it's kind of positional. And the poet Rumi, the great poet Rumi, said, The quieter you become, the more you're able to hear. The universe speaks in frequencies, and today we are going to receive them. Neil deGrasse Tyson, fantastic astrophysicist, a real one, put it this way. We're all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically, and to the rest of the universe anatomically. That is the most humbling agreement we could ever make with ourselves. We are not separate from what sustains us. Seven days, seven episodes, but just one operating system. That's who you are. That's what we are. Now let's go live that. We don't have to be perfect, we don't have to be at full speed. We just have to be intentional, to be honest, to be clean, to do the four agreements, remember them, honoring our word, being impeccable with our word, not taking things personally, not making huge assumptions, being more curious, and always doing our best. Isn't that the sweet spot? And you were always built for it. I'll see you Monday. I'll see you for making moves Monday. For science, for soul, and for success.