Rumi, the mystical 13th -century scholar and poet, explained Slim: “Never give the depths of your source, but of your overflow.” At the moment when Rumi lived, life was certainly different from now. The majority of people were farmers and struggled over the country, while others were city dwellers or clergymen. Days were long and hard, but much easier than today. In modern 2025, with 8.2 billion people on earth, life is constantly on the move.
Pre-Covid, many of us could be moved in a pattern of faster and faster with the minute. We would routinely give our children a quick meal before they jumped out of the car for their third activity of the day. Many parents would agree, this life method was simply not self -sufficient. There was no potential for overflow – not even time for electricity.
Then Covid hit and forced us to slow down, breathe and visit our ideals again of what is really important. A child really does need To participate in multiple sports teams every season? Is that extra dance class really necessary?
There were periods of calmness and chaos, times on the inside loneliness and great -community – even if our only visitors were to nature. But at that time we learned to do more than simplify our agendas and to coordinate noise outside. We have learned again how we can coordinate inside. And when we turn inside, we started to flow again.
We are now a few years after that break, and life has been sent back to “normal”. Although many have resumed their busy schemes, our body and mind still remember that inner connection.
As bodies and spirits delay their constant chatter, a meditative practice, such as Qigong, can bring a deeper level of peace and balance. Qigong is a practice of self-connection to become one with your inside self and of understanding your body’s messages before they become problematic. When we are coordinated, we are in harmony and in balance, so that we can make the freedom of creative expression and current.
So if it’s time to give to others – whether it’s time or attention – we will have an overflow to take off. And in that light we can give others without exhausting ourselves.