My Laptop Died: You Are Not Late To Your Life

Ever feel like you have to apologise for slowing down? After an unexpected laptop failure forced time away from screens, I found an unexpected gift: presence. That pause became a teacher, revealing how attention returns when noise falls away and how rest can be a strategy, not a setback.

 We open the door to a softer way of living through February’s in-between space. To ground this shift, we guide a short, accessible meditation. Sit tall on a cushion or chair, breathe slowly, and say: I trust the timing of my life. 

 If you’re ready to swap rush for quiet confidence, this gentle practice can help you root now so you can rise cleanly when spring calls.

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Transcript

Discovering Joy Beyond Screens

Breathing Into The Present

February As A Mystical Doorway

Letting Go Of The Rush

Rooted Power Before Bloom

Guided Meditation Begins

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Hello dear listeners, I'm the Gentle Yoga Warrior, and I'm delighted to finally be giving you a wonderful podcast episode. My computer was doing this thing where it would only charge from one port, and then that port, the other port wouldn't work, and then it wouldn't charge in certain buildings or certain sockets, and it just yeah, eventually it completely died. And I checked it into laptop hospital, coincided it with some time off, but it was so nice not to have to be on the computer too much because I didn't have one, so I had no choice. But do you know what I thought? Oh, I'm one of those people that didn't really get bored, and I thought, oh, I'm gonna get bored. I didn't, I absolutely loved it, and I would really suggest where possible to have breaks from the computer. Maybe in a job you have to be on the computer a lot, but you can choose if you wish to do so to be less on any kind of screen over the weekend. You could even like be less on your phone, like just check it a few times a day if that's possible. I know sometimes it's not if you've got commitments, but just watch the time when you kind of go on the phone and you get lost on all the apps when you could be doing something caring and mindful for yourself. So I am delighted now to have the computer back, of course, because it means I can share this episode, but I will be taking the lessons that I learned from not having the laptop to remembering the times to read more, which has been so fantastic. I just forgot how wonderful reading, like I always read, but like reading for pleasure, not just reading for work. So that's fantastic. I really enjoyed that. So maybe you can find ways that you can sneak in less computer time. So as we take some slow, calming, deep breaths, and we'll be more in the moment now. We are dear listeners in February, and we are standing in a very mystical, magical doorway. For winter, as wonderful as I find it, and most people might not agree with me, but I do love winter, hasn't fully let go to allow the fullness of spring. But spring is kind of there in the background, whispering away. The light I've noticed in the evenings is there a bit longer, lingering a bit longer. The birds have a kind of aliveness about them, and maybe like you know, some days it's like we had hail here, and then we had sunshine, and then we had rain, and then it was cold, then it wasn't, and that that's what's kind of magical, I think, about this time of year. But a lot of people don't like January and February. I know January can be tough because we don't always have we have to we're we're trying to recover from the cost of like the holiday season, but people sometimes write February off as well. They see it as a kind of transitional month between winter and spring, and of course, in many ways it is a transitional month, but it's really magical as well. It's it's kind of like where the it's incubating the life of our existence in a sense that the seeds with the combination of the coldness and then the warmness are kind of starting to come alive, but we rush our whole lives, you know, we're trying to get from A to B or B to A to C to D. Nature though does not rush, that is for sure. And you know how we're always apologizing for saying for taking time out because society has been kind of brainwashed to think it's all about doing instead of being. But you know what? I'm sure like you know, like the trees are gonna come, and it's too early for the trees to come into blossom, but they will come into blossom in the spring. But I'm sure they're not working behind the scenes thinking, oh no, I'm panicking, I haven't got my blossoms ready, or I'm panicking because I don't know what I'm gonna do. And yeah, us as humans, we're often pressured to explain when we take pauses, when we take breaks, and almost as if we've got to apologize and justify when we're being a bit slower, and to prove our self-worth by how productive we are. Let me just remind you, dear listener, that we are we are not behind. If you have not felt like doing millions of things, do not worry, the energy will change soon, and you'll feel like doing more things. But finding that quietness, February feels like the ultimate month of being, you know, like it is that doorway between winter and spring. So, can we just be a bit more? And you know, like this cycle of our lives, we kind of need to find a bit more care and tenderness and see the shred anything that's been kind of making us feel guilty for our mere existence, and you know what? You've learned throughout the years to be the wonderful person that you are, so you do not need permission to take some time out if that's what you need over the weekends. You dear listener, can tap into February. Your power can come from being rooted in the here and now, the softening nature of spring to start with. Okay, there's a lot of power as well, like to push a seed to push it through the soil, that takes a lot of power, but we're not quite in that stage yet. We need to kind of let ourselves fall out into the season and allow ourselves to be take a deep breath and contemplate what wants my gentle attention, and how can I bring that gentleness into not doing things with effort but with an attention of awareness, and I think that's done by being quiet and silent in the moment. Don't force yourself to come into like you know, like how a tree wouldn't a tree wouldn't force flowers before it's ready, and I invite you to feel into being like that yourself. Remember, like you know, the stuff that we're doing behind the scenes through the winter and when we're putting ideas together, that's kind of the roots of our existence. So that's underneath the ground, and the ground is slowly starting to wake up, but it's not quite there, it's that pause before the life and our sense of being springs forth. So let's take a pause together, dear listener. So I'm gonna leave you with a short but trusting meditation. Top tips for the meditation is either sit nice and cross-legged on the floor with a nice straight back, always nice to sit on a block or a cushion, or if that's not available for you, you sit in a chair with the back nice and straight. The important thing is you're not slouching. And if you're doing something that requires little concentration, all you need to do is just pause this and you can reconvene the meditation at a time that is good for you. If you're doing the meditation, let's begin. So as you sit cross-legged or you sit upon your chair, feel your feet, your body, and we can tell ourselves I trust the timing of my life, and I let go of the need to rush, and I honor this. Is very important, this bit. I honor the wisdom I have earned. I honor the wisdom that I have earned, and we've all earned our wisdom instead of using a compass about what should I be doing now, what should I happen now, can you find moments to feel and just say what feels most like me? What feels most calming, nurturing to my nervous system? What feels like a quietening, a kind of peace? What does your energy need today? That can be your simple compass through the rest of February. What does my energy need today? You know, some days we all want a bit more movement, some days a bit more stillness, some days a bit more contemplation, other days we might want a bit more joy. Tap into that wonderful wisdom that you, dear listener, have earned through your wonderful journey of life so far. This moment. The next breath, the next sound that you may hear. Remember as you breathe and you allow yourself to be. What does a quiet confidence feel to you today, dear listener? What does it feel like? Just be just now, just in the moment, you are not late to your life, you are right on time. Tap into that inner knowledge and being, which is your truth, by becoming more in touch with how you're feeling. So feeling comes from a sense of wisdom. Trust the unseen work that you have done to get to you to this point today. Trust what is incubating in your life slow and steady, and just trust to be and find these moments of simple contemplation. So let's take a nice calming deep breath in and out through the nostrils, and dear listener, I invite you to go forth into the rest of your day, evening, morning, and I'll speak very soon. Thank you.