I’m tired of speculating on what’s going to happen in the future.
I’m depleted of rehearsing my archaic past. (Always loved this unstressing nature of Ziva meditation.)
And now I just want to live this very moment. I have almost finished reading ‘Effortless’ by Greg McKeown. In it, he talked about how much our present lasts – not more than 2.5 seconds. So why not make our micro moments special and long-lasting?
If you cultivate joy in everything that you do that is also essential – imagine the space in your mind to nurture and amplify this joy that extends into the near future?
I was moved by the last chapter of the book – in it, Greg talked about the value of the present, of now. In Latin, ‘now’ means novus homo – a new man, a new man ennobled. All our worries and struggles pale in the seizing of now, of living this present moment, effortlessly.
You see, living in the now is effortlessly welcoming, because we don’t quite know what the instant now will have us respond to, yet we are anticipatory and curious. Let’s make our present – as this is all we have, and can cherish. We can apply the Lindy effect here. We can increase the life expectancy of this present moment with our expanded self-awareness and genuine wonder for shaping something meaningful not just in our work, but also life and our fond, deep relationships.
Slowly our joy deepens and scales with time; and eventually transcends this moment to capture an augmented vibration.
In fact, when you have a deep exhalation that furthers up more than 2.5 seconds, it’s magical!
So let’s do this simply breathing: inhale from your nose for 2 and exhale from your mouth for 4. Then inhale for 3 from your nose and exhale from your mouth for 6. Then – and this is the game-changer that calms our vagus nerve too (taught by Emily from Ziva Meditation) – inhale for 4 from your nose and exhale from your mouth for 8.
Do this 10 to 15 times – and see how enriched you feel with every calming breath of fresh air in your lungs and heart.
Well, this is just a teaser or should I gracefully put that it’s a mindfulness precursor?
Think about the relief you feel when you are in this ‘now’, your feet on the ground yet you feel the momentum – a sense of personal progress and upleveling?
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