Live in the Now: How to Reclaim Your Power to Heal

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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.