Let it be, the Present is a present
Sending you Good Vibes and Energy to be mindful, with a present Moment awareness and continue to help yourself.
Awareness has the Power to heal and transform us.
Choose what you give your awareness, attention and power to and how you respond.
May you stay aware and may your day and week unfold with peace and ease.
How are you doing? How are you feeling? How are your Vibes and Energy?
How do you feel about this day, this week and February?
As we go into a new day, new week and continue to ease into the first few days of this new month, what would it be like to be fully present in each moment of this week and experience everything that happens exactly for what it is?
Present-moment awareness can be challenging, but also being at peace with what is can be even more challenging. But there are gifts and things beyond what we can imagine that exist in the present and the presence in each moment.
I know that it becomes hard to not overthink and overanalyze things in the pre or planning process or after something is done, has already passed and or already happened. When you look at how you navigate things daily, what does your processing process look like? Leading up to or going into something, do you often have analysis paralysis where you can’t get something done until it’s perfect or until you’ve checked all the boxes, and even more that you’ve added along the way, off? Or when something has passed and happened, do you find yourself replaying the scenario over and over and over again? Ruminating or overwhelming your mind thinking about what you could have done differently?
Both of these things have often has happened to me and even still do to this day.
Already in 2023, the last few weeks have been challenging for me in this capacity. There’s been some W’s that I was looking to happen that didn’t happen — New opportunities that are on the table and/or things I’ve been working on that didn’t pan out or come to fruition the way I thought, hoped for, and imagined. I found myself having feelings of disappointment, sadness, lack and even more, which is okay to have, but not okay to sit in over time. But I was not responding in a way that best served me, my vibes or my energy and how I want to carry on. Moreover, I was not accepting the outcomes for what they were and it put me in a non-positive place, going back over everything, thinking about what I could have edited or changed to make the W’s happen the way I imagined, envisioned and hoped. This all took me out of experiencing the moment. I wasn’t accepting the circumstances for what they were.
Sure when you plan and prepare well things often manifest or pan out at the highest or most excellent way. But even sometimes the best planning can’t predict or change what the outcomes will be. You hope it can, but there is no guarantee.
It took and is taking work, but I’ve got to a place to respond and react differently to just let it all be. These are things that I had no (more) control over. It didn’t happen, it is what it is. What is thinking about it more going to do?
Is that going to bring the opportunity back to the table? Not at all. What it does do is induce stress and deepen the non-happy or non-positive feelings of disappointment, sadness, etc. that we don’t want to have.
We’re all human and no one Is immune to challenges. But we can better equip ourselves for the challenges and the road ahead. Here are a few mindful things to think about, be mindful of and practice this week and beyond to have more equanimity and better navigate the challenges and human experiences that we experience that take us out of the moment:
Let the feelings, and experiences in the moment be, even if it’s uncomfortable. Not pushing them away(escaping/not dealing with it)or not pulling or molding it or things the way we want them to be, but letting things, people, etc. be just the way they are? Experiencing things as and for what they truly are, no modifications. This is something that is or may be challenging as creatives often because we’re perfectionists and can make edits on end, or maybe because something is always being created. But maybe the world and your life in a moment isn’t to be edited, but experienced fully for what it is, without judgement.
Now that you’re present with the feelings and letting them be, how are you responding or going to respond to what’s happening? There’s a quote I’ve read that says “life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% how you respond.” Are you responding — taking time to sit with what has happened or occurred and then putting a move fwd plan in place? Or are you actually reacting — moving irrationally and off of emotion and the emotions in the moment?
What can you do differently, if you want a better outcome in the future? Do you need more planning or preparation time ? Do you need more or better resources? Have you exhausted all that you can for an excellent outcome?
Don’t forget to activate a daily moment of Joy or Happiness — Take 5 to 15 minutes a day doing something or spending time the way you choose in something that brings you joy and adds to your happiness.
This dedication to a daily practice of this can help us make long-term choices to change the way we see things so that we can be and feel less stress, less anxiety, less pressure and less of non-positive feelings.We don’t have to force some future outcome by betraying ourselves in the present — We can work with how things are now, however, they are.
Inner and outer stillness is possible in everything. The less we’re seeking, pushing or pulling and the more we’re letting things be what they are the more present we can be and the more we are equanimous.
Have an Amazing day and week.
Be well, stay mindful.