ART OF QUIET ENRICHMENT

How do we each handle stress? Well, we cannot handle it when we live in the past or the future and in our minds most of the time. The present time requires some skills. Perhaps the healthier we are, the easier it is to respond to our world with ease and longevity.  Everyone can perform a simple exercise for bringing us into the present moment and with practice the present becomes easier to live in. This is where there is no guilt, fear, anger or other lower frequencies. We begin living in the higher frequencies of love and compassion and awe. This is where we can feel the divine energy. It is from the heart. This exercise only takes 3-4 minutes max.

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Ah, good morning. Do you have a cup of coffee? You ready? We're going to talk about being in the present. And so being in the present means you take your cup of coffee, you take a look at your cup, you look at your hands, and you say, I am holding the cup, the cup is red, the cup is pink, the cup is black, I am pouring the coffee into my cup. I am now watching it as it fills the side and it's swirling. Whatever it takes. See, I'm when we talk about being in the present, we mean being in the present. So what is what is um the word you've probably heard before somewhere if you've been listening to other podcasts is mindfulness. In fact, yoga teaches mindfulness. Lots of older cultures have talked about mindfulness, but there's even research to show how it helps us psychologically. Well, of course it does. And you know why? Because mindfulness brings us into the present. And in my title, I called it the Art of Enrichment because my life has been enriched by it, and I will tell you why. It's so easy for all of us to think about what we should do, what we haven't done. Who said what, what we want to watch on TV that night. Did I get that package in the mail? Oh, I have to call the boss or I have to call somebody else. You know, the list is so long, it can drive you crazy, can't it? Just to relax and to stay in the moment where you're actually treating yourself to a very interesting piece of time. I had learned about mindfulness early on, and I'm gradually using it more and more now, probably because I'm making myself have more and more time to do mindfulness. And I'll catch myself once in a while during the day, I'll say, okay, stop, and let's pay attention and observe what I am doing. Really observe it to the finest degree. So when I first learned it, I learned about what I taking a walk. And that was the illustration, and that was a wonderful one. So basically, you put on your shoes and you start anytime you want, and you're looking at your shoes and say, Oh, my shoes. Yes, it's just an observation. It's not, oh, I need new shoes, or it's oh I wish I got a different pair, or anything like that. No, no, no, no. I have shoes on and my shoes are brown. I am going outside. The sun is out, the sun feels warm, the warmth feels good. I am taking a step and I am looking at how my foot lands on the pavement. I'm talking about beginning doing this now. I'm talking about how intensely descriptive we get. This is an exercise. And notice the stone that's on the lock. Oh, and there are beautiful flowers. I like them. They're pretty, they're orange, they're green. Not not the next thing is, oh, I wish I could get my flowers planted. Okay, we're gonna stop. You go back and you actually observe some more about the flower. Even if you say you're stopping, you say, I'm stopping now. I'm slowing down, I'm observing these flowers, and I'm noticing that she has other flowers in the garden as I walk. Oh, there's a bird. Now you think this is laborious, it's not. When you start doing it, you're going to find it's extraordinary because for the first time you've taken charge of yourself and your mind, and you allow yourself to relax, truly relax. It's a stress reduction exercise. You cannot be in the observation mode like that for very long. And you just can't feel guilt, you can't feel anything because it's a totally observation of the mind. There's really no analysis. Even the analysis of the sun feels wonderful as an analysis. So, how do we get so that we don't have time to do this? And one minute, I I just challenge you. I'm gonna challenge you right now. One minute, you're gonna take a walk and you are going to be mindful of everything around you. There's no guilt, there's no fear, there's no worry, there's nothing. There's and there's no thinking. So when you start swaying away from just observing, just pull yourself back. It's not an exercise of guilt. You can even say, hey, I I got off path. I'm pulling myself back now. And you observe and speak about everything you do. This has made a huge difference, as I say in my life. Do I do it all the time? No, uh uh I don't. But I do notice that once in a while now during the day I'll stop and I'll say, Oh, that spoon, I'm lifting up the spoon and I'm putting it over there, and everything else fades away except that moment. And I am practicing it more, and I just want to share that with you. You know, the whole art of being in the now moment, time can actually shift when you're totally in the moment of be here now and total observation. Have fun, enjoy your first minute, really truly trying this and see if there isn't a difference. I'm gonna add one more thing. I had an absolutely fabulous seminar, was online, seminar with Greg Braden. He has been one of my heroes for so long. I'll tell you how long. I have an original VHS tape of his. He travels all over and he's back speaking, and oh I was so enthralled with everything he said. He did say and he talked about stress, the fact that your heart has a brain. The heart has a brain. It's a very smart brain because it brings us to our divinity. So as we take a deep breath in and a deep breath out, try the mindfulness of understanding and that you're saying. But you inhale and you exhale in the moment, and you'll find that your stress is starting to release. Now take two or three fingers and you put them in the center of where your heart is on your chest, and you just tap that area, you just hold it, and you do the breathing exercises for two minutes. Try it. You're going to find that so many other things come to this heart that has a brain. And the information has a very different feel to it than it does when you think. And actually, the more you do this, the more that you'll find that your pineal, which takes in light when you get up in the morning, and if you do it in the morning, you're gonna start your circadian rhythms working. You're probably gonna sleep better at night. You close your eyes and the melatonin takes over. But we can't do that if we're worried, and our brain is so used to being on, on, on, and there's been no rest. Okay, guys, I I just want the best for you, and I just believe that we're all blessed, and I praise and acknowledge your humanness. And I wish you a wonderful day and a very quiet mind.