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· Starting small. To get from a state where
you just feel like sitting on your chair and
doing nothing much to one where you take
action over and over you can do this: start
small. Getting started with your biggest task
or most difficult action may seem too much
and land you in Procrastinationland. So
instead, start with something that doesn’t
seem so hard. One of my favorites is simply
to take a few minutes to clean my desk.
After that the next thing doesn’t seem so
difficult to get started with since I’m now in
a more of a ―take action‖ kind of mode.
5. Tomorrow will come anyway. Live and fully
enjoy here and now.
―Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only
saps today of its joy.‖
-- Leo F. Buscaglia
vibe of presence by hanging out with him or
her (just like you can pick up positivity or
enthusiasm from people). If you don’t know
someone like that then I have often
recommended listening to/watching Eckhart
Tolle in the past. I still do. I especially like
his audio book ―Stillness Speaks‖. Another
guy that I find helpful for picking up presence
from is Wayne Dyer.
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To be able to let go all that excessive thinking about
the future (which often leads to worries in the end),
to live better today and to be able to take that
positive action to move forward it really has been
very helpful for me to develop a habit of learning to
live in the present moment. Because it’s there that
you can do things in the best possible way with your
focus fully on what you are doing.
Three of my favorite techniques for developing this
habit and drawing myself back to the now when I get
lost thinking too much about the future or past are
these:
· Focus on what’s right in front of you. Or
around you. Or on you. Use your senses. Just
look at what’s right in front of you right
now. Listen to the sounds around you. Feel
the fabric of your clothes and focus on how
they feel. Be still right there and just take in
the world around you.
· Focus on your breathing. Take relatively
deep breaths with your belly. Focus your
attention on just the in- and out-breaths for
about two minutes. This aligns you with
what is happening right now and it also
calms down a stressed and worried body.
· Pick up the vibe from present people. If
you know someone that is more present than
most people then you can pick up his/her
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40 Yang-Sheng (Nurturing Life) Volume 1, Issue No. 7