A couple of deep breaths in your own rhythm place.
Adjust your posture to be comfortable.
And come with me today on a journey to living fully in the moment.
We struggle with our to-do lists and our appointments and our schedules,
Our household responsibilities and on and on.
We're usually thinking either about the past,
What did I just do or could have done or should have done or what should I do or what am I about to do,
Short term,
Long term.
The challenge with this state of mind is it's fully cluttered with mind chatter,
Past and future,
Future and past.
Let's try something else instead.
Another couple of deep breaths.
And imagine stillness.
Just stillness.
Mind chatter received.
Watch your breath.
Feel your body.
Be fully in your body in the room you're in.
Perhaps move a little bit.
Listen to your heart.
Feel your blood flow.
Imagine your mind rather than full of chatter.
It's like a CPU,
A central processor that has only one piece of data that answers it at any one moment.
And you are concentrating and so fully present that there's only a moment.
It could be staring at the tip of a candle in the ancient traditions.
It could be saying a mantra.
It could be just watching your breath or the tip of your nose.
There are many ways to get back to the sacred moment.
Try something for yourself now.
Just try it.
And in that sacred magic moment,
However fleeting it might be for you,
There's an entire universe.
Not only stillness,
But flow.
And not only flow,
But openings.
And not only openings,
But creation itself.
Imagine the possibilities.
Imagine leading a life where stillness and moment to moment living is your birthright.
Consider drawily the deeper mysteries of yourself and the universe itself.
Just invoke stillness.
Ancients say there only is one moment,
Followed by the next,
Followed by the next.
Can we find that?
Can we center ourselves,
Calm ourselves enough,
Relax ourselves enough to live in that moment and the next and the next?
Imagine gifting yourself with a skill.
How would change your emotional flow,
Your mental fluidity,
Your relationships?
Think of it as a pause and then another pause and then yet another.
And don't forget to breathe.
Consider the possibility that your consciousness flows through this moment.
But the more you become aware of it,
The more you cultivate it as practice,
The more you imagine it,
The easier it is to find,
To drop back,
To surrender into.
But we don't have to force ourselves to be in the moment,
The moment already exists.
Can you find it?
Can you feel it?
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could achieve this skill?
It would change everything.
Who we think we are,
How we relate and how we are in the world.
Consider that possibility.
When you're ready,
Give thanks,
Come back into the room and have a wonderful day.
