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💫 Vitality In Presence – Why Now Is All You Truly Have

In this chapter of the Self Help Show, Gina Margaret Tiger brings you back to the one place your power actually lives: the present moment. From emotional overwhelm to overstimulation in the digital age, she walks you through why we struggle to stay grounded and how you can start rewiring your nervous system for peace, clarity, and true vitality — right here, right now.

🧠 Episode Breakdown:

00:00 – Welcome to Chapter 6: The Time Series

00:20 – The Art of Being Present in a World of Overstimulation

01:00 – How Overthinking the Past Ruins Your Now

02:30 – Why Modern Life Hijacks Your Attention

03:40 – Top Reasons We Struggle With Being Present

04:50 – Technology, Mental Clutter, and Overcommitment

06:00 – Practicing Mindfulness as a Daily Habit

07:00 – Visualization, Gratitude, and Conscious Thought Energy

08:15 – How to Shift From Painful Memories to Present Power

09:00 – Final Thoughts and Episode Wrap-Up

🔑 Key Insight:

“You can’t change the past, but you can change the vibration of your present — and that changes everything.”

🌿 Affirmation:

I Release The Past, I Own This Moment, I Welcome Peace

📓 Journal Prompt:

Where in my day do I lose presence — and what small habit could bring me back to now?

🛠️ Presence Tools To Try Today:

✍️ Gratitude journaling

🧘 Breathing + grounding exercises

🎧 Tech detox (20 mins off socials)

💡 Set ‘mindfulness alerts’ during your day

☀️ Morning visualization rituals

🎶 Music, movement, or art as embodiment practices

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Hello everybody. Welcome. Welcome, welcome, welcome. My name is Gina and I am the host

(00:14):
of A Thousand Voices podcast. This is a self help show and this is chapter six where I'm
talking about time. Anything and everything to do with time, how we use it, what it stands
for, etc. So today's topic, I am talking about the art of being present, the time in the moments.

(00:37):
How do you often find yourself thinking about something that happened in the past and you keep
on thinking about it? It could be something bad. Actually, most cases it's something bad. You find
yourself thinking about it so much that you miss out on what's happening right in front of you.
How many times? How many times? I'm asking a question and if you can answer me that would be

(01:07):
great because I'm really curious to know like especially when it's matters of grief,
matters of betrayal, matters of being heartbroken, you find yourself in a vicious chain
of thinking about that exact same thing over and over and over again that it affects your mood,

(01:29):
it affects how you speak to others, it affects your productivity, it affects anything and everything
that you do because you're just stuck. You're just stuck on that moment. So why do we struggle with
this? I think in today's fast-paced world, our minds are often just overstimulated

(01:58):
and you can agree with me on this because I mean we always have notifications from our phones,
we have social media, we have billboards, we have emails, we have phone calls. It's just so difficult
to kind of focus on the present because you're constantly being pulled in so many directions.
So that's one side of it. Yes, there's that side that I mentioned that it could be something that

(02:18):
has hurt you, something that has kind of broken you down but I'll talk about that later. Now I
just want us to talk about why we struggle with the present. So that technology overload is a big
thing. Social media is a big thing. Multitasking is a big thing. Even information overload is a big
thing because as much as you have social media, you have television, you have radio, and then you

(02:47):
have books and then you have audio books and then you have podcasts. Hey, no, it's too much. I feel
like there's vast amount of information available now, right? And it's distracting to be honest.
It's very difficult to concentrate even on your current affairs because there's always that thing.

(03:10):
There's always a piece of information. Then another thing that pulls us out from our present moment
is stress. I cannot deny that when you're stressed, it's so difficult to focus on your present
because you're just thinking about whatever that's stressing you. Then another thing is mental
clutter. So that's what I was saying the other time that it could be something that has hurt you,

(03:35):
you were betrayed, you were heartbroken, you got grieving. Something terrible happened in your life.
It's very easy to stay in a loop of thinking about that, right? Then another thing is fear of missing
out keeps us from being in the present moment because you're thinking of the future, what you're

(03:57):
going to miss out in that particular moment, you are neglecting your present. Then another thing is
environmental distractions. Can you tell me about noisy neighbors or can you tell me about
construction? You know, maybe there's a construction grilling happening next door. It would definitely

(04:19):
take you from the present moment because now your attention is drawn, you are distracted,
and it's difficult for you to focus on complete tasks. And it's difficult for you to stay present
when something like that is happening. Then I think the biggest one is over commitment.
I am guilty about this over commitment thing. Guys, you know me, you know me. I have this

(04:41):
podcast that I have right here and I'm running a business and I'm also doing production. So
I have my own productions and I also have my own products and I also have this and that and that
and I still have a life that I have to enjoy. So I think having too many responsibilities,

(05:05):
they literally spread you thin and to be honest, I think that's where I'm at, you know? And
as much as I've and not everybody can can do this, but I kind of focus and concentrate on each of
those multiple facets of me, right? But not everybody can do that. And I really wish I could

(05:30):
drop one, but it's already too late. I mean, I've been doing this for so many years, so I can't
really drop one. But what I can do is I can hold off the other one and push the other one. So yeah,
I wish me all the best. So now I want to talk about how we can practice
being mindful because being mindful will kind of kick in like a thermostat, you know,

(05:57):
whenever you are distracted or any of those, the 10 things that I've explained
that pull us away from our present moment. When you practice mindfulness, it kind of works
on autopilot because the moment you're distracted, if you have been practicing mindfulness,

(06:18):
like regularly, immediately when something takes your attention for the longest time,
your mind already kicks in to say, hey, come back to the present. So for example, if you're stressed,
excuse me, if you're stressed and something is not going your way, if you're practicing mindfulness,
you automatically remember that everything is going to be okay. Whatever situation that you're

(06:42):
going through, it'll fade away and a brighter day will come. So now you focus on the present moment
in that particular moment to make sure the brighter day arrives because that's when you
brighter day arrives because it is every single thing that you do now that creates a ripple

(07:04):
effect of what happens tomorrow. All right. So for example, if you're visualizing for something to
happen today, while you're staying in the present moment within the visualization and seeing
yourself there and being active in the present moment to make sure you get there, you will get
there. But it's impossible to actually visualize something, but then you're stressed or visualize

(07:29):
something. Then you're being drawn back by distractions or to visualize something. Then
you're living in the past. Like, how do you even see the future when your brain, your brain energy
is being dragged by past events? You see now you get, you get me. So I would say
try as much as you can to practice mindfulness and practice, practice, practice to stay in the present.

(07:58):
It is not easy, but you have to practice it and you can train your brain to focus on here.
And now that is like the simplest technique I can tell you. Like the moment you find yourself
being distracted, just think about now, the present moment. So if you were stuck in the past,

(08:22):
think about the present moment now and how you can make it better for your future. Focus on how
grateful you are in this particular moment, whatever you have, be grateful for it. That
gratitude will create a vibration around you to invite more experiences for you to be grateful for.

(08:46):
So what I'm saying is we know this term, thoughts are vibrations, thoughts are vibrations. Like what
we think about vibrates and it always goes up, up, up, it goes somewhere and then
it vibrates and call what we are thinking about. So if you concentrate on the present moment,
so if you're constantly thinking about the present, it's not doing you any good because then only

(09:12):
experiences and situations like the past will keep happening. How do you fix this? Staying
in the present moment in the particular present moment, I'm not saying completely disregard what
happened. You can still acknowledge it, but detach from the emotional affiliation of that past moment

(09:34):
and focus on the present moment and anticipating the positive future. Right? So for example,
my heart is broken, I'm devastated, I've been betrayed, I've been backstabbed, I'm bleeding.
In the pain, I am acknowledging the pain and then I'm also visualizing healing and I'm visualizing

(09:58):
a better me in the future. See you on the next episode.