# Pacing > Pacing matches movement through change to honest present capacity and individual rhythm rather than external urgency. - Canonical: https://sassani.app/topic/pacing # Pacing Pacing is the rate and rhythm at which a person moves through change. In this teaching, a general period of acceleration does not mean that everyone should move faster. The useful pace is the one that matches the person's present state, rather than the urgency they perceive around them. ## The right pace is individual Bashar describes several valid possibilities. Someone moving frantically may need to slow down and experience life moment by moment. Someone remaining in contemplation may need more willingness to act. Another person may already be moving at the appropriate pace but distrusting the absence of an obstacle. A person in a confused stasis may need to begin moving at all. The point is not to prefer speed or slowness in advance, but to recognize which movement is actually aligned now. ## Honest self-assessment The proposed way to find that pace is to pause even when life is moving quickly. Bashar directs attention to joy and excitement, but also to observable symbols: actions, surroundings, omissions, and patterns of behavior. These reveal the energy and meanings a person is already expressing, including places where their stated intention and lived momentum do not agree. This makes pacing a question of synchronization with one's own momentum. Moving ahead of it can become strain; falling behind it can become resistance or confusion. The aim is to “ride the wave” of one's actual frequency so action can feel more coherent and less forced. ## Acceleration and capacity The session also distinguishes intense change from incapacity. In response to a participant experiencing a whirlwind of integration, Bashar says that acceleration can arrive together with a greater ability to handle experience, know oneself, and become more. The teaching does not promise that transition is symptom-free; it frames growing capacity as part of the same process. ## Practical implications Pause before assuming that the surrounding acceleration determines your own required speed. Compare what you say you prefer with what your actions, surroundings, and repeated behavior are presently expressing. Ask whether the next aligned adjustment is to slow down, act more readily, remain steady without manufacturing a problem, or move out of stasis. Treat increased capacity for self-knowledge as one possible companion to an accelerating period of integration. ## Representative passages Many of you may actually need to slow down a bit. Some of you may be utilizing the acceleration a little bit too frantically, in a little bit too much of a hurry to get where you think you need to be.— Bashar, A Change Of Pace (a-change-of-pace#text) It will accelerate and with it will come the ability to handle more. And with the ability to handle more will come the ability to know yourself more. And with the ability to know yourself more will becoming the ability to be more.— Bashar, A Change Of Pace (a-change-of-pace#qa-1) ## Related - [Excitement](https://sassani.app/topic/excitement) - [Self-Assessment](https://sassani.app/topic/self-assessment) - [Integration](https://sassani.app/topic/integration) Markdown twin of https://sassani.app/topic/pacing. The HTML page is the source of truth.