Awareness & Attention

Do you notice when you’re triggered ? What symptoms – feelings do you get when you are triggered?

Anytime we are reacting with anxiety or fear, we have an opportunity to use the situation to create a solution and learn skillful navigation.

  • Our interior response can be reset, tended, managed. 

  • We give the experience meaning.

  • We have a choice in how we react.

  • Thoughts can be cultivated to transform our attitudes and feelings.

The calm presence is the what I call the NEUTRAL state. It is when you drive your space ship and it isn’t driving you.

Drive your space ship with skillful, deliberate thoughts.

You can use certain physical pathways to help neutralize your chemistry: your emotional, mental, and glandular activity so that you can calmly consider the parameters of a situation and allow new thoughts - new choices - new solutions.

Physical, emotional and mental activity  - all responds to each other

Maintenance and Care of Your Spacesuit

Cultivate your thoughts like a garden and skillfully create an internal atmosphere of Grace, 

Sometimes we feel so much we cannot just change our thoughts. Emotions are storming and your body is disturbed. This is where practice comes in.

You can access your emotions through your body and your body through your thoughts.

You can re-distribute the chemical cascade from stress response.

Meet any condition the world presents you with a clear presence of mind and see solutions.

Here and Now is where all our resources are. This is where we make good choices.

Slow/calm the nervous system from it’s heightened/stressed state.

Find your unique methods for neutralizing your interior state.

What you pay attention to grows in your world.

Reflective process

The act of noticing – where you’re at, what you can do and what works 

Reflect upon your unique responses to what calms you down – music, service, church, meditation, walks, nature, exercise, deep breaths

Bring your one true super power to your attention.

The most precious thing you have is your awareness of the present moment.


It is what you give your loved ones.
You have a lifespan.
And you have this moment.
This moment is where it all happens.
Find ways to be in the present moment in calm clarity.
A calm clear state for the present moment is the most precious thing you can give yourself and ones you love.

This is your Best service – Everything else passes.

This moment is where your choices, experiences - You Happen.

Stress

Stress comes from the reaction we are having internally to what we encounter externally, producing a cascade of emotional and physiological responses.

If stress comes from what we think and feel, we can change how much power it has over us. 

We get to Choose. 

Find one practice that opens your interior to lighter sense of being.

  • Affirmations – I have enough time to breathe.

  • Nature – Trees - Grounding

  • Physical flush – take the stairs

  • Slow yourself in the movement and Look around

  • 21 breaths

  • Music

Like any toolkit, it can be updated at any time.