The tightening
Mid-day scribble while sitting on the settee upstairs looking East…It is December 28th and I am on winter break.*
Some background: my resting heart rate is low. It's about 57 BPM. When I sleep it goes into the 40’s. For reference, the average person’s resting heart rate is between 60 - 100 BPM.
As the year comes to an end, I have had a bit more space and with this space, I am paying more attention to my mind, heart and body.
I feel a tightness — a constriction — as if there is a band across my rib cage. While the breath is not shallow, it is not as full or deep as it has been and could be.
It feels subsided as it waits.
Waiting for when it can fully beat. Freely.
*I practice what I preach with varying degrees of success.
About The Author:
Jara Dean-Coffey (jdc) is Founder and Director of the Equitable Evaluation Initiative and the Founder of Luminare Group. For the past twenty-five years, she has partnered with clients and colleagues to elevate their collective understanding of the relationship between values, context, strategy and evaluation and shifting our practices so that they are more fully in service of equity. For more about musings + machinations click here.
