Are you more attached to an outcome, or how you plan to get there? Is the process of getting there an excruciating obstacle or is it an intriguing journey? Are you allowing yourself to be happy now where you are or do you think that your ability to relax and enjoy your present moment is on hold, awaiting for your outer circumstance to look the way you think it should before you can let yourself relax? What would it take to luxuriate in where you are right now, in this very moment, as we surrender to the thought that there is no place else to be even if we wanted to? Let's consider that the best way to achieve everything that we think we want is to be right here, right now, in the potency of this very moment. Let's sit still and sink deeper into a state of relaxation for just three breaths, as we temporarily suspend our belief that there is something more we can do in this moment that would bring us any closer to where we want to be. Let's close our eyes and just take three deep breaths in through our nose and out through our mouth and spend 30 seconds just sitting still. Let's see what happens. Ready...relax.
Wow. I heard the crickets at night, and felt my heart beating in my chest. I noticed all the nuances of this present moment that we often take for granted and barrel over. How did it feel to pay attention to being present where you are? Consider that you have the choice in any moment to shift your attention, and by doing so can notice how your outer world can reflect your chosen inner state of being. What would happen if we took one minute each day to do this? What do we have to lose by finding out? Who would we be if for one minute each day we didn't define ourselves by what we were supposedly accomplishing. What if?...
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