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Let's talk about what it means to be truly present in the moment.
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Eckhart Tolle has his
book, The Power of Now.
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The emphasis is on being here right now.
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I just did a post online a little bit
ago, and it delved into the fact that
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everything happens in this now moment.
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If you're stressing about something
happening in the future, if
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you're worrying about attending
an event, or maybe money, or
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fearing something going wrong.
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Even though it's about
something in the future, it's
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still taking place in the now.
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You're still thinking about it
here and now you're still feeling
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the feelings here and now.
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From that aspect, your power
really lies in being present here
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and now paying attention to your
surroundings, observing your thoughts,
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not identifying with your thoughts.
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But observing them as they're happening
and not attaching to them, letting them
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float in and out of your experience.
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That is true presence.
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That is taking the power from your
incessant habitual thoughts, and instead
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giving it back to your true self.
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You're able to look at your
thoughts and think, huh, that's
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going on in my brain right now.
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I'm going to let that just float on by.
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The next step is to choose the
thought that you want to focus on.
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Replacing that thought with something that
feels better, or is more productive, or is
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just making you feel well in the moment.
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Yes, I know we need to plan
for things in the future.
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And yes, I know we learn about things
that we've gone through in our past.
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But it's more about what
are you attaching to?
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What is triggering emotions within you?
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When we think a thought, it gives
us a chemical reaction in our brain,
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which we identify as an emotion.
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Then our emotion turns into a
way that we're feeling.
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I'm feeling X, Y, Z today.
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Then if that keeps sticking around,
as, Joe Dispenza talks about, it
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starts to become our way of being.
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It becomes our personality
and it becomes our demeanor.
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Circling back to the present
moment, there's a lot of
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power in that present moment.
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The choices that you're making, the
things you are choosing to focus
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on, create your life experience.
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If you're choosing thoughts that stress
you out all the time, that means it
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puts your body into a perpetual state
of stress, and then therefore it
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becomes the way that you view the world.
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It influences your future thoughts,
and that becomes your life experience.
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So take that knowledge.
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And look at it as your power.
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That is where your individual
power lies in the here and now.
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It doesn't matter what you thought about
10 minutes ago or even 30 seconds ago.
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Right here, right now, as you are
listening to my voice, you have a
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choice of selecting any thought you
would like and taking it from there.
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For me, if I want to be happy,
I think about little pygmy goats
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wearing sweaters and dancing.
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You can probably hear it in my voice,
that puts an instant smile on my face.
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So if I ever want to snap myself out
of something and redirect my brain,
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I think of dancing pygmy goats.
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My question for you is, what
is your dancing pygmy goat?
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What is your go to thought?
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It's always good to have some of those
in your back pocket because when you
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realize, oh, oh crap, my now moment, I
am stuck in my head about something that
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happened in the past . I gotta redirect
that and bring myself back to the now.
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You can think of your happy thought.
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- You have redirected your focus to the
here and now you are fully present all
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of your five senses are engaged in this
moment You know when people say that oh,
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I was in the flow that creative flow?
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That's literally what I'm talking about.
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You are so present that time feels like
it doesn't exist You know the saying
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time flies when you're having fun?
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What that really means is time flies
when I'm so engaged in the present
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moment that is bringing me joy and
I constantly stay in that moment and
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I'm not stuck in the future or past.
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Then it feels like I
have no concept of time.
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That's what that saying is
really getting at.
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You can also meditate.
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If we meditate on a regular basis, it's
basically a workout for our brains.
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You practice pulling yourself into
the present moment, out of those
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thoughts and into the moment.
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The more you do that, the more
your brain understands that habit.
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It literally rewires your brain, so then
maybe you're in the middle of a stressful
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meeting and all of a sudden you snap back
into the present moment, into right now.
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And you think, holy crap, I
just went down the rabbit hole
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with that stressful thought.
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It's easier for you to snap out of that.
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You grab your happy thought or you grab
a new thought, a better feeling thought.
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You pick a different topic to focus
on and it's so much easier for your
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brain to switch gears like that.
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It takes practice.
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Doing it one time is great, but
that's not going to build those
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new connections in your brain.
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You have to get the reps in.
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Just like anything that you're practicing,
the more you meditate or even just the
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more that you focus on observing your
thoughts and picking a new one, that
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will become a natural habit for you.
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You'll see the effects in your
life because you are picking the
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path of what you are focusing on.
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All we have is now.
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You began listening to me in
a completely different moment.
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You are in a brand new moment right now.
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A new moment right now.
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A new moment right now.
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So look at that as a chance
for you to have freedom.
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You have the freedom of choice.
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You have the freedom of deciding
the direction of your focus, and
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you have the freedom, therefore, of
deciding the direction of your life.
