Grounding yourself in the present
If you're anything like us, you tend to live life in the future, constantly planning your next move before fully appreciating your current state. However, if we've learned anything over the past few years, it's that the older you get, the faster life seems to fly by. What that means is, if you're always focused on tomorrow, you miss out on today. With life buzzing by, it is more important than ever to pause and appreciate where we are. In the spirit of this message, today's blog is a meditative poem about living in the now. We urge you to follow this as a guided meditation, taking the time to stop, breathe, and enjoy.
Stop
Close your eyes
Breathe in
Breathe out
Look around
Observe
Pay attention
Be present
Breathe in
Putrid thoughts creep in
Slowly weave their tangled fingers
Through your focused homeostasis
Breathe out
"Breathe in. Breathe out...Be present"
Resist the pull
Resist the urge to wonder about tomorrow
When today's qualms are still sitting on the shelf
Breathe in
Appreciate the now
Relish in the splendour of today
Before it becomes the lamenting of yesteryear
Breathe out
Release the gnawing need to daydream
You cannot hold a pipe dream in your hands
But you can mourn a ghost
Breathe in
Let life wash over you in sea-foamy waves
Let it carry you to shore
As you surrender yourself to the tides
Breathe out
Breathe out the expectations you hold for tomorrow
Breathe out the anxieties and fears of the unknown
Breathe out the what ifs and whens
Breathe in
Breathe in the now
Breathe in and feel your blood pulsing
Breathe in and smile
Breathe in today
Before you breathe out tomorrow
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