I’ve been practicing meditation again, now through a new App called “The Way.”
It’s been teaching a simple framework for noticing more about how our minds work.
What can you do about being stressed, having anxious, coming back into the present?
The framework is very useful for getting yourself out of your head and back into the present. It all starts with awareness and noticing – catching yourself getting out of presence. There are so many different ways that we stop being present.
So it helps for you to get a basic understanding about how you, specifically, leave the present moment:
Presence/Out of Presence:
- Audio/Past: We remember a conversation that we were having (and maybe cringe about it).
- Audio/Future: We’re practicing a conversation that we’re going to have.
- Audio/Present: You’re hearing something in the room you’re in, right now.
- Visual/Past: We see images of some past event or person.
- Visual/Future: We are imagining how we’ll act, we’re in a fantasy of the future.
- Visual/Present: You’re seeing the room you’re in, the color, the texture.
Etc.
Those senses, those same senses that were distracting you become an anchor to getting present again.
Talk about a counter-intuitive move!
Start by “labeling” what you’re noticing. Understand a bit better and get curious about yourself in this way.
And, you can download the app the way if that's helpful to you.
What helps you get outta your head and back into the present?
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