Life happens in the small moments when we are truly present.
So often we search for happiness and joy outside of ourselves and we get stuck in the 'I will be happy when' mentality. This never leads to happiness because we have placed it at a fictional point in the future which never arrives, because as soon as we reach it the goal post moves and we find ourselves right back where we started; trying to reach it, believing we will feel it when we get there. Usually when we own this item or have achieved that goal.
Yet peace, joy, contentment and a sense of meaning in our lives is actually available to us in any given moment. We just have to be truly present in each moment with the recognition that the only moment is now, that everything else is simply a perception and not real.
Today we discuss how developing a greater awareness and presence in our lives is the key to true, sustainable happiness.
We talk about the differences between awareness and self-awareness, and a range of practices that we can implement in our lives to help us cultivate greater awareness and remain in this state.
"I have come to discover that it is the simple, small and precious moments of our lives, that if we are not fully present for, could appear seemingly insignificant, even go unnoticed! Yet they are an opportunity to experience the true joy of what it is to be human and hold the key to our greatest fulfilment and joy” Kezra
"I realised not that long ago, less than three years ago, that the vast majority of my life was spent in an unconscious default, that I spent the majority of my time either in the past or in the future, that I was practically never present. I was attaching my sense of achievement, future happiness and contentment to events that were in the future and still to come" Ian
SHOW NOTES
Forest Bathing
Books
Broken Open by Elizabeth Lesser
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön