I've fallen in love with the Bliss & Grit podcast. Have you heard of it? It is a series of conversations between two friends who discuss topics of awakening and spirituality in today's day and age. It is excellent. Listening to their conversations creates feelings of recognition, community and inspiration within me.
They finished their podcast last year, but there are 150 or so episodes and I HIGHLY recommend checking it out if you are curious about emotional healing, empaths, highly sensitive people, spirituality, awakening, the current state of the world, consciousness, and understanding yourself on a deeper level.
Here's a question they discussed that I found captivating:
What is this moment, if there were no problem to be solved?
Oftentimes, I notice that my thoughts are very far away. My body is in the room but my mind is way over there sorting things out. Predicting. Anticipating what's next and how to best handle it. But this isn't being present and alive. This is anxiety. And the question they posed really struck me: If I wasn't consumed 'fixing a problem', how different would my experience of daily life be?
This week, I've been trying a new approach: turning the volume way way down on the "over there stuff." I noticed when I tell myself there isn't anything else to be working on besides what is happening in the moment, I am actually in the moment. Feels foreign and a bit unusual, but really fun. I don't have it down to a perfect science and the old default setting pops up regularly, but I am noticing it and that is a powerful first step.
My kids and I were shopping at Costco last night and they were being wild goons, cracking each other up, taking turns steering one another around the aisles by their hoodies. We were all laughing. Completely in the moment. Their eyes were sparkling, cheeks rosy, their delight in one another was palpable. There wasn't anywhere else I wanted to be. I wasn't consumed with my grocery list, or worrying about the long drive back home in the dark, or wondering if we were annoying other shoppers. I was just listening to my children's contagious laughter and putting items in the cart.
Out in the parking lot, I felt euphoric. In my body. In the moment. With a quiet mind.
Healing my limbic system is having profound effects on my reality. It is changing things I didn't even know could be changed. Like how it feels to be present. How beautiful!!!
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