Slow living

Slow living (sometimes capitalized "Slow Living") is a lifestyle choice. Authors Beth Meredith and Eric Storm summarize slow living as follows:

Slow Living means structuring your life around meaning and fulfillment. Similar to "voluntary simplicity" and "downshifting," it emphasizes a less-is-more approach, focusing on the quality of your life. ... Slow Living addresses the desire to lead a more balanced life and to pursue a more holistic sense of well-being in the fullest sense of the word.

Other authors have emphasized various aspects of Slow Living:

Focusing on the quality of experiences you create versus the quantity of stuff you consume, is what slow living is about. It’s about making your lives better, not bigger. ... Instead of framing it as living with less, slow living focuses on the positive aspects of savoring more.

Slow living is about fully engaging with experiences. It’s about living your life instead of racing through it. Slow living doesn’t necessarily mean doing things more slowly; it means taking the right amount of time to do something.