"Be as you are"

This week has been totally focused around just being. Being where I am, when I'm there, and understanding that I can be in the present. It could be my overactive mind, but the gift have inquiry has informed me that I'm not the only one who struggles with putting away all of my over active thoughts, to enjoy said moment before it passes.

A few things I've found which really help me to find my place in the present are:

1) Mindfulness. During a talk with my therapist a few weeks ago, she explained to me that it is very useful to practice mindfulness whenever possible. Mindfulness is know as the practice of focusing on one specific thing from a non-judgemental perspective. This can be tricky, considering even positive speculation is still judgement. What I like about this excercise is that it pushes me to understand how much extra strain I am putting on my mind by thinking and feeling so many ways about so many things. I have no obligation to be this way. It is such a releif to know that if I can harness this think less/feel less way of life, then I can simply focus on doing. What a load off!

2) Good Company. Spending the past year living with my signifcant other has taught me so much about the power of presence. I am so lucky to live and be around someone so charged with ambition and positive energy. As I understand how important good company is, I strive to be that presence, when I am put in positions where I know the people around me are not. If I can understand how impactful this presence is, perhaps I can learn how to be that presence, instead of feeling discouraged about its lack of existance in whatever situations/spaces those may be. In my discouragment, I conform to the negative energy, but in my optimism, the environment changes to match the intentions I am releasing outward.

3) Action. An iphone app focused on tips for helping to reduce anxiety taught me that one of the quickest ways to calm anxiousness is action. This makes sense to me, because when I evalute what it is that is making me feel anxiety, it is the thought that I have X amount of things to do, based off of will and desire, versus X amount of time, which I feel is never enough time to capacitate all my wills and desires. When I stop thinking about how much needs to be done and I start doing it, there is automatic relief, as that time is instantaniously being better utilized.

4) Finally, This song by Mike Posner which I downloaded by pure fluke, or perhaps destiny, has relaxed me on so many levels. I've always appreciated him as an artist, but thank heavens for this song and this timing.

Always Learning <3