being present
on being in the moment
Stuart Evans and
being present
From Jane Ratcliffe interview with Andrea Gibson:
When you hit the state of being very present, being very in the now, can you describe that experience in a tactile way? What’s happening in your body? What's happening in your mind?
What it feels like for me is a swell of pure happiness that I am aware is everybody's birthright. I heard something rece
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Less fomo, more jomo
“You’re doing it all wrong,” said someone doing nothing at all.
Some ppl really ruin their lives trying to experience third person feelings in the first person.” Feelings observed are distinct from feelings felt. When we watch two people snuggle into bed in an advertisement for sheets, it looks wonderful, but snuggling in bed ourselves feels wonderful in a completely different way. This gap between our observat... See more
The other day, lying in bed, I felt my heart beating for the first time in a long while. I realized how little I live in my body, how much in my mind.
∆ Rodger Kamenetz, from Terra Infirma (University of Arkansas Press, 1985)
For me, harmonizing with the trouble is not to find perfect synchronicity or balance, but to move and be moved into a trans-contextual dance of aliveness . It is to become sensually intimate with the push and pull, the tension and release, the agony of death and the joy of living that exists in each moment – with each in-breath and out-breath. As N... See more
Harmonizing the Body Electric
The more present we are, the more we relax into ourselves, the stronger a magnet we become for what aligns with us. That’s the paradox of the self: it is most potent when we are least focused on it.