Juicy Joy by Lisa McCourt

Author:Lisa McCourt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Hay House
Published: 2011-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

For most of us, living in the now requires lots of dedicated practice, and I’m far from an expert at it. Regular meditation helps more than anything. In daily life, whenever I catch myself ruminating or notice that I’m feeling distracted, I use that as a cue to re-center myself in the present moment. When my beautiful, loquacious preteen, Katy, asks a lengthy question and I blankly answer, “Huh?” I know it’s time. Your thoughts are almost always about the past or the future, so the present moment is a feeling zone rather than a thinking zone.

I have a favorite way of accessing the now that I learned from spiritual master Eckhart Tolle. Treat yourself to a present-moment experience and try it with me now: Just decide, in this moment, to feel your divine self within your physical body. Focus on the sensation of life in your hands, your legs, your toes as you wiggle them. We take it for granted all the time, but it’s a really cool sensation. Intentionally crank up your awareness of the buzzing vitality that animates every cell of your being.

I like to move and stretch, feeling the aliveness in my body and knowing that aliveness is my God-self. When you’re focusing on the presence of your God-self inhabiting your form, you’re automatically released from your mental activity. I like to acknowledge in that moment, too, that I extend beyond my body. I can feel the energy in my form, but the energy that is me actually extends beyond my physical self, and I can intentionally extend it as far as I please. As Tolle says, “Remind yourself to feel your inner body as often as you can. This alone, will help you to vibrate at ever higher vibrational frequencies and therefore you will attract new circumstances that reflect these higher frequencies.”

If that’s too freaky for you, just focus on your senses. What are you seeing, hearing, touching, right in this second? You can’t focus on your senses while you’re consumed with thoughts, so this automatically brings you into the present. Admire the juxtaposition of colors in your current surroundings. What does your underwear feel like against your skin right now? What does the person next to you smell like?

I’m a big fan of the tactile sense. As a mindfulness practice, I really enjoy touching my own skin or interesting fabrics or sticky things, and putting all my attention on the tactile sensations. My art-loving Katy’s Play-Doh is perfect. So yielding, so compliant, so submissive, squishy and warm. Find some Play-Doh and just revel in the texture, the feel of it, that funky smell, those disturbing colors. Listen to it squish. Go ahead and taste it; I won’t tell anyone. Take a vacation from your stories by dipping into the now as often as you can.

When you feel a story pulling at you, mentally take responsibility for having created that story by giving it your attention in the past. Make the deliberate decision to stop feeding it.

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