A New (Alternating) Short Version Of The Un-Rush Newsletter – Scratching And Stretching Your Thinking In A Noisy World
4 Thoughts, 4 Nudges, a place, a person, a prescription inspiring to slow down
Hi, I’m Claudia, helping you face a hurried world
with greater confidence in your “Power of Slow”.
This is a 3-Minute-Read by the publication Un-Rush,
stretching your thinking and perspective on slowing down.
THINKING.
What means POWER of SLOW?
Power means strength. Something that has leverage. An impact.
SLOW Power means:
Choosing where to focus.
Moving with purpose, not just moving faster.
There is rushing and there is moving fast. They are not the same.
De-escalating a bad mood by noticing symptoms of rushing.
Approaching collected and calmly a list of allegedly endless to-dos.
Using the fastest route out of a mess by being ridiculously intentional.
Consciously not being stressed about resting.
You get harassed if you behave slowly and patiently.
There is power in pursuing strategic slowness:
By being yourself
By being radical
By being intentional
By being rebellious
By being unique, not mainstream
By being different
By being inspired
You recognize that your most valuable contributions come not from speed, but from depth.
What if solutions emerge when we don’t rush toward a solution?
THIS INSPIRES.
Reinhold Messner, the mountaineer who climbed the world’s 14 highest mountain peaks says about motivation, pace and mindset:
“If you want to move boundaries, you have to do it slowly, steadily, and calmly, step by step. If you skip steps in a hurry, sooner or later you will stumble.” – Reinhold Messner
Japanese saying on the art of thoughtful elimination:
“Your garden is not complete until there is nothing else you can take out of it.”
Photojournalist David Burnett on looking at life:
“Life is about staying focused. Not simply focusing an image in the viewfinder of a camera, but keeping your eye, your soul, your mind, all in focus in the viewfinder of the life you choose to lead.”
Cara Bradley from Spark on Substack on busyness:
“It takes courage to be less busy.”
A PLACE to UnRush.
The Portland Japanese Garden is a quiet sanctuary and reflects the city’s ethos about building a culture of belonging. Visitors leave with a sense of tranquility, as though they’ve touched something enduring and profound.
Designed in the 1960s, with guidance from master Japanese gardeners, it is considered the best in the world outside Japan. It weaves together five distinct styles: strolling pond, tea garden, sand and stone, flat, and natural gardens. It’s a living, breathing work of art shaped by tradition, harmony, and a deep respect for nature.
A PERSON who managed to UnRush.
Kimi Werner. How a deep diver champion teaches us to slow down
If you can’t find your safe anchor, slow down and trust yourself to get there.
Kimi Werner learned to implement going slow to improve her diving. She is a champion deep-sea diver, spear-fisher, freediver, artist, and chef-hunter.
When starting to dive into the dark waters off Newport, Rhode Island, she panicked. The water was the opposite of her diving in Hawaii’s clear waters. Then she remembered what one of her early teachers told her: When you feel the need to speed up, slow down. This made her win the National Spearfishing Championships.
A PRESCRIPTION to UnRush.
Public Bathhouses to get off your phone, relax, and commune with others
New York Bathhouses against social loneliness. Othership. A new trendy term (and name of a bathhouse) of the self-care economy and a concept that can be applied to nearly any activity where people get off their phones to commune with others. For example, one of the modern bathhouses in NY: Othership, which is all about an “otherworldly sauna and ice bath experiences for human beings to feel good now”, with locations in Toronto, NYC, and Brooklyn.
Public bathhouses have served as social hubs since ancient Rome and remain popular in many countries: Japan has its onsens, Turkey its hammams, and Finland its saunas. But in the United States, public baths faded in the 20th century with the rise of indoor plumbing. Now there is a revival. And why it is that bathhouses have endured for thousands of years can be attributed to the community people find there.
A BOOK to UnRush and stretch your perspective
A wonderful book on Japan, inviting readers to embark on a journey that celebrates the art of slowing down, and entices them to seek the extraordinary within the ordinary. Get Inspired By Japan.
