Lauren Card Live

“I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.” – Albert Einstein

First of all… “Hi”, I’m here and PRESENT. I’m grateful I had the awareness to create space for self care today, I was really needing it and now feel super energized. I had a great 4+ mile walk with a friend and really committed to keeping that routine going .

Presence is about being in the now whether you are with another or with yourself, a challenging feat at times I admit!  A book I’d recommend on this subject is Eckhart Tolle’s – Power Of  Now

Benefits to being present:

Improved social skills -

• With your attention focused outward towards the person(s) you are interacting with notice what you are experiencing with all of your senses. What’s your gut telling you, your heart, your mind? With this knowledge how can you connect with that person more effectively?
• Presence can also help you with listening. Presence helps you to decrease the habit of thinking about the future and what you think you should say next while trying to listen. Like Zach Slobin taught us at the last Quest training, when another is sharing their story listen until your ears hurt!

Improved creativity –

If you write or do some other creative work you may have found that your best work flows out of you when you are not thinking. You just write, paint, play… whatever. You enter a state where things just happen effortlessly. When I’m creating art either in a logo design or a painting, this flow comes through me not from me, that’s when I know I’m fully present.

You appreciate your world more –

One of big advantages of becoming more present in your everyday life is that you decrease the amount of analysing and labelling you do to the things/people in your surroundings.  You observe your world with more clarity and curiousness…like a little kid again, discovering things while they still feel fresh…

It’s impossible to be present and judge at the same time.

Openness-

This is perhaps the best benefit. Being present can open you to see and experience things without preconceived notions or story. In this state you can connect and communicate with yourself and others in a more life enriching way vs. life alienating.  

Less worry-warting and overthinking.-

If you are a chronic over thinker, one that goes round and round in circles in your mind before you ever get anything done, then being present is a great release from that habit. I’m not saying that you might not slip back into over thinking, but being present just for a while can truly help. 

Be NOW.
L.

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