In this episode, we delve into the concept of living in the moment and embracing the now. This episode encourages us to break free from the cycle of waiting, to appreciate life's roller coaster of emotions, and to find magic in the mundane. Tune in for a reflective journey that inspires you to live fully in the now, with courage and awareness, and to cherish every moment that life presents.
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[00:00:02] Hey, hello sunshine and how has your week been? I hope each of you all have had a wonderful time this week.
[00:00:11] You know now is all we have, truly. We may be uncomfortable with our emotions and we often are.
[00:00:20] We are afraid of sitting alone and confronting what will show up. It's true, isn't it?
[00:00:26] For a vast majority of us, it's also true that we somehow just don't know how to feel good without feeling afraid.
[00:00:37] Afraid that that happiness, the joy that we feel will be destroyed.
[00:00:42] A few of us are always dreaming about ultimately reaching that place in our lives.
[00:00:49] You know, and we look at all of the events or all the experiences that we may have or moments that we experience
[00:00:55] as just a step to help us reach the next step. Which means we are waiting.
[00:01:03] Waiting to reach that place in our life. And so much time is wasted just waiting.
[00:01:11] Waiting to be met where we are at, waiting to be understood, waiting to live the life we dream of,
[00:01:17] waiting to meet the right person, waiting for that dream job, waiting to go on that dream holiday,
[00:01:23] waiting to lose weight, waiting to fit into that favourite dress of ours which we loved 10 years ago.
[00:01:30] Waiting, waiting, waiting.
[00:01:33] We all seem to want that fairy tale ending and therefore we are never really happy or satisfied with where we are at right now.
[00:01:42] You know, if we are heartbroken or we are feeling sad in life, we keep dreaming of how the feeling happier would be.
[00:01:51] Or how feeling whole again actually is.
[00:01:54] We forget that life is happening now in the grey areas.
[00:01:59] Through the pain, through the tears, through the sadness, through the fear, through the anger, through the anxiety.
[00:02:06] All of it.
[00:02:08] You know, there may be days when we are healing or when we are going through something that we need to come out of
[00:02:13] that we may feel like we have not managed to move on or heal at all.
[00:02:17] But again, there will be days when we may forget that we were sad even.
[00:02:22] It's a rollercoaster you know, this thing called life.
[00:02:25] But being fearful of moving ahead and even more fearful of going back is what is terrifying.
[00:02:34] Life is a series of now moments.
[00:02:37] They lift us up.
[00:02:38] And experiencing one moment after another is what makes our story unique.
[00:02:44] Our journey beautiful.
[00:02:46] And just because a few bad things happen, that doesn't mean you had a bad life.
[00:02:52] You know, sometimes we have a checklist of things.
[00:02:55] We want, all of us want things to be ideal and fabulous all the time.
[00:03:00] And isn't that a bit delusional?
[00:03:03] Because life happens with the good and the bad moments.
[00:03:06] All we have right now is the opportunity to experience it.
[00:03:10] A chance to live it.
[00:03:13] You know, society has us conditioned that we all have to plan for a secure tomorrow.
[00:03:19] That the way to success is to have a list of things that make it to the happily ever after list.
[00:03:25] You know, so often we see beautiful posts on social media.
[00:03:28] Whether it's Pinterest or Instagram.
[00:03:31] We see this girl sitting by the beach,
[00:03:33] sipping a glass of wine with her favourite book.
[00:03:36] Just relaxing.
[00:03:38] Or we see this beautiful bed facing the mountains with a beautiful view.
[00:03:42] Or a steaming cup of coffee placed near the window that overlooks the ocean.
[00:03:48] Are these pictures stunning?
[00:03:50] Of course they are.
[00:03:51] But how many of us actually get up and go to the window and stare at the ocean with our cup of coffee?
[00:03:57] How many of us really sip that wine on the beach when we are on holiday?
[00:04:01] Reading the book that we think we need to unwind with?
[00:04:05] Not many of us.
[00:04:07] What we do is go back to the programme life that we live.
[00:04:11] We wake up. We go to work.
[00:04:13] We complain.
[00:04:14] We keep thinking of the wish list.
[00:04:16] Then we complain some more.
[00:04:17] We compete with one another.
[00:04:19] And this is how we move every single day.
[00:04:22] This is how we carry on day in and day out.
[00:04:26] All we have is now.
[00:04:28] The now that is beautiful in its own way.
[00:04:30] With the good, the bad, the ugly, the fascinating, the wars, the love, the friendships, the families, the people who love and probably who love us back.
[00:04:42] People we probably don't love so much.
[00:04:44] And who also probably are not really gung-ho about us.
[00:04:47] But that's okay.
[00:04:49] Accepting that even when we are sad or low, we can muster up the courage and realise,
[00:04:55] for now, all you can do is breathe and try and smile through the chaos.
[00:05:02] The now is enough.
[00:05:03] The now is what you have to live through.
[00:05:06] The beautiful moments that come and make us believe in magic and love and make us so keenly aware that life is worth living,
[00:05:14] is what matters.
[00:05:15] Always remember, things are only as boring as we let them be.
[00:05:22] We have to always be keenly aware of the fact and never forget that we still have people to meet, places to visit, places to travel,
[00:05:31] mysteries to unfold, parts of ourselves that we have to learn more about, parts of ourselves that we have to unravel,
[00:05:39] parts of ourselves that we still have to probably unlearn.
[00:05:43] And all of which will happen in the moment of now.
[00:05:47] And so I'm going to leave each one of you all with a beautiful quote.
[00:05:50] It says,
[00:05:51] There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation.
[00:05:56] The challenge is in the moment.
[00:05:59] The time is always now.
[00:06:01] So here's to each one of you all, constantly being keenly aware of every now moment that shows up in your life this week.
[00:06:10] We'll speak to you again next week.
[00:06:12] Take good care of yourselves.
[00:06:15] So much love to all of you.
[00:06:17] Bye for now.