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Let's take a long deep breath.

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Settle into this moment.

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Feel yourself relax into the now.

100% of your attention right here.

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Listening.

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Letting everything else go for a little while.

Just be with me.

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No thoughts.

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No plans.

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No responsibilities.

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Just peace.

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Just reconnecting to that love of life.

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Feel life.

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Feel yourself shifting into presence.

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Presence overlaps with your love of life.

A seemingly universal story of human development is that of growing from a child born with an innate connection to the present moment with a natural love and curiosity for — and playfulness with — life.

As we age, we often lose aspects of our inherent relationship to the present moment. The joy inherent to childhood is so often replaced, or covered up, as we ‘grow.’

Disconnecting from presence by adding psychological layers of distraction and abstraction is often unfortunately associated with ‘growing up.’

As grown-ups though, we can also reconnect strategically and intentionally to the deep connection to life we observe in children at play.

With intention, we can maintain that beautiful, alive relationship to life throughout our lives. And we can feel the joy of living.

Those two things are actually one and the same, right?

You feel joy when you are engaged in a love affair with life.

Let’s take another long, deep breath.

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Set an intention to protect your relationship to presence.

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Your connection to presence is your birthright.

It's also something that you can have huge influence over. The more you value presence and prioritize presence in your life the more time you're likely to spend in presence.

Take one more deep breath to come further into presence for another minute.

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Let's feel life tingling on our skin.

I'm out for a walk right now, so you probably hear some cars going by.

Feel life tingling against your skin.

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I feel the cool air against my hands.

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Listen to the sounds of life as you also feel the buzz of life on your skin.

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Be fully present.

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No agenda — except a child’s love of life.

Immerse completely.

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If you get distracted from your intention to love life fully at this moment, just reset your intention to let everything go.

Then, listen to life for a while longer.

Be presence for another 30 seconds or so.

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Perfect.

I love it.

Take that feeling — your love of life — with you for the rest of your day.

I hope you're having a great one wherever you are.

I'll talk to you soon.

Stay present,

Sean

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Let's take a long, deep breath.

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Relax your shoulders.

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Sink into your space.

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Set that intention to be present.

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Full attention on your intention to be present for a while.

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For the next few minutes together, focus 100% of your attention on listening to life.

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We were actually under a car looking at a transmission mount, looking to see what's going on with this car.

I thought, well, what better time than the present to step away for a minute and remind myself of my commitment to full presence throughout the day?

If you share that commitment — the commitment to always return to presence — in all likelihood it’s also a commitment to fully living your own journey too.

A commitment to presence is a commitment to fully living — to embracing your own story through life — to embracing your unique journey through life.

To be fully here for it.

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Whenever you're feeling too stressed it can become tricky to stay tapped into the unique journey that you're meant to live.

Intentionally dropping into a presence often has the effect of reminding you of your intention to live fully, each moment, each day.

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Come into your space.

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I hope the sound of the car being worked on isn't too distracting for you.

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Keep that intention to be fully present right now.

I'll step outside.

It may be easier to focus on being fully present out there.

Let's focus one full minute on being with life together.

All your attention focused right here, right now.

Listening.

Knowing that if you take a nice, deep dive into presence right now (and or, intermittently throughout your day) a consequence is that you'll bring that deepened presence, and your corresponding intention to be present, more deeply into your life for the rest of your day too.

Take one more deep breath and listen to life again for 30 seconds.

Just listening in silence together.

100% of your attention right here, right now.

Listen…

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Perfect.

Have a great rest of your day.

I'll talk to you soon.

Stay present.

Sean

The OnePerfect Shift app is free to you if your employer or school subscribes your community.

Contact us for a team trial or try it on iPhone or Android today.

Let's take a long deep breath.

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I'm in a San Francisco restaurant after being dropped off by an Uber, after arriving from a trip to South Africa — the retreat to prioritize 24/7 presence that I referred to during our last Shift.

I had a beautiful experience and have been looking forward to talking to you and shifting with you.

I’ve also noticed that I often do not mark transitional occasions like returning from a two-week trip as intentionally as I might. I think there’s some good and some bad in that habit.

The bad is that I don't necessarily concretize learnings as well as I could by identifying the insights that I want to make more of a priority in life moving forward.

On the plus side, just staying in the flow of life whenever you’re in the flow — as long as avoiding something that you need to deal with is not the reason you're not concretizing your learnings — is often the best way too keep ‘walking the pace of your miracle.’ When I feel I’m walking the pace of my miracle, I don’t tend to worry about too much else.

But, when it comes to feeling like you need to get yourself back to living the pace of your miracle it's a good idea to be strategic about concretizing your insights. You can personalize your own shifting strategies by noticing what's occurring for you and applying the lessons from it. That’s how you become a master of shifting yourself back into the present moment anytime.

So…what did I learn from my retreat?

Let's first take a long deep breath and drop into this moment.

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Set an intention to be together for a little while.

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Set your intention to be fully present by listening to life.

I'm in a restaurant so we can hear voices all around.

Let’s listen to the sounds of life with 100% of our attention.

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The short version of this Shift Back To Life is that I had an incredible time on my journey — an unbelievably beautiful time.

The retreat reinforced everything about the value of prioritizing presence — being fully wherever you are as you are.

The takeaway that I wanted to share with you will likely not be much of a surprise to you because ‘insights’ tend to be things we already knew own some level.

The lesson is to watch closely for how much time you spend online.

There are some wonderful things to do online, but if you are online more than you need to for some neurotic reason, take a look at it.

A great way to take a look at it is to set that intention to be present and go away for a while. Get off the grid. Spend time with yourself, and or, loved ones — whatever this moment in your life is calling for.

That's it.

There are more insights, but it’s easier to absorb one at a time.

One breath at a time.

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I feel gratitude to have a community to come back to and drop into presence with.

Let's listen together for 20 seconds more and then say goodbye for today.

By the way, I'm excited about our shifting future. Having spent a couple weeks hyper-focused in presence, I'm looking forward to what we have to share together in 2024.

Okay, let’s listen with 100% of our attention again.

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Listen.

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Can you feel the gratitude?

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Nice.

Have a great rest of your day.

I'll talk to you soon.

Stay present,

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The OnePerfect Shift app is free to you if your employer or school subscribes your community.

Contact us for a team trial or try it on iPhone or Android today.

Hello friend!

I recorded this ‘Retreat Shift’ to let you know I’ll be on retreat for a couple weeks — and to prepare for the journey a bit. I’ll be back in touch with our next Shift when I return.

Have a present couple weeks!

Sean

Let's take a long, deep breath.

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Listen to life with 100% of your attention.

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Notice your body shift into presence.

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Take a deep dive into presence with me.

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Feel all the stress, anxiety — future worry and past worry — fade away with another deep breath.

Presence melts it all away.

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If you get distracted, when you notice, shift all your attention back to listening, feeling, seeing again.

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Perfect. Feels good, right?

I’m beginning two weeks of retreat into a deep consistent experience of presence.

I’m so looking forward to it.

When was the last time you experienced that feeling of having some time away from your routine coming up?

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Can you remember what that feeling is like?

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Time away from your routine can help you step up your presence practice.

It can help you follow through with your intention to live as deeply and beautifully and intentionally as you choose.

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When you drop into presence you can better hear your next step.

It flows through you into the world.

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Could there be a retreat on your horizon?

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Nice.

I wish you a beautiful next couple weeks.

I'll be back here with you with our next Shift when I return.

We’ve had over two years of weekly shifting together here.

A beautiful trip it’s been.

I look forward to sharing the new nuggets of beauty we stumble across during our next two years together.

Have a great rest of your day.

I'll talk to you soon.

Stay present,

Sean

The OnePerfect Shift app is free to you if your employer or school subscribes your community.

Contact us for a team trial or try it on iPhone or Android today.

Take an extra long, deep breath.

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Life is good.

Listen to the ocean crashing in the background.

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Sink into this moment with me.

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Can you feel it?

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It's that thing that is always going on.

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It's the flow of life through you that is creating your next moment — your future.

If you listen to it with 100% of your attention you can hear what the flow of life is saying to you.

What is its message for you?

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What's exciting you about your life right now?

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What's that next step that you’re looking forward to?

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What’s the healthiest, most exciting, most personal next step for you?

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Allow whatever you heard to sink in a bit more by listening to life a bit more.

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Set your intention to lean into your next step in your life.

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Just shift back into presence by listening to life whenever you need to.

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Have a great one.

Talk to you soon.

Stay present,

Sean

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Let's take a long deep breath.

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Relax your shoulders and your neck and your entire body.

Notice the feeling of presence going straight from your deep breath, into your body, and into the tingling buzzing of life that you are.

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Sink into chill for a while.

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Shift how you want to feel.

Let’s do that today.

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One thing that’s really helpful if you're going to do a Shift, and also to help you get better at shifting in general is: At the beginning of your Shift, precisely describe for yourself the state of mind that you want to find yourself in five minutes from now.

Describe to yourself the state you’re expecting to shift into clearly and intentionally.

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I like the idea of defining your own states — rather than choosing from a list of mind state descriptions provided by someone else.

When you define your own states for yourself they become more meaningful to you because you associate a translation of one of your emotional states in your own words, (i.e., ‘my bummed out state’), with an actual feeling experience that you’ve had repetitively.

Surely you don’t encounter that feeling state all day, every day.

Maybe you just drop into it once a day, or a few times a day — or weekly.

However frequently a particular state arises for you, after you define what the state feels like by naming it you'll get quicker at shifting yourself into or out of it, on demand.

Obviously, ‘my bummed out state’ is an example of a negative state.

When you’re choosing a state you're going to shift into, you’ll usually want to select a positive state.

For example, you could say to yourself: ‘I want to shift into feeling completely dialed into what I’m working on next today.’

Or maybe, ‘I want to be completely relaxed or loving right now.’

Or, ‘I want to be fully present right now.’

Those are examples of positively-toned state descriptions.

If you want to, you can get even more specific than that about the state you intend to embody today.

Take another long deep breath.

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How would you define the state that you want to embody by the end of this Shift?

It’s probably somewhere on the spectrum from ‘relaxed and loving to motivated and engaged.’

Choose a desired state for yourself now.

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Now that you've set an intention for yourself, and I've chosen mine, let's intend ourselves into our chosen state during the next minute or two of silence.

Again, close your eyes if you want to just listen as you begin to see yourself in your chosen state.

For example, if you want to do something for the next hour, you should focus on seeing a scene of that activity in your inner world — see yourself becoming immersed in the scene into the state you selected.

Let’s begin our state shifts by letting our minds completely clear for the next 30 seconds.

Then, we’ll invite ourselves into the state we want to find our way into.

Sound good?

Take another long deep breath.

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If you get distracted, reset 100% of your intention to focus 100% of your attention into listening to sounds that you wouldn't hear otherwise.

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Feel yourself shifting into presence.

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Keep feeling it.

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Are you intending to interact with someone or something today after you've fully embodied your selected state of mind and body?

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We did it.

It took five minutes to shift to a very different, intentional state of being.

Open your eyes when you're ready.

Enjoy your chosen state.

Have a great rest of your day.

I’ll talk to you soon.

Stay present,

Sean

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Okay, here's a good Power Up.

If you're listening to this, it's likely that you've been exposed by now to the lessons of the great master teachers.

The teachers who teach about being present and about how to make changes.

But still, with all those master’s gold mines of information out there, all the great writers and great teachers, I've so often heard:

“I understand the books and I understand the teachers and they resonate with me, but the changes I make, they don't stick. They don't stay with me. A few days or a few weeks after I've learned or practiced something new, the learning seems to fade and my behavior returns to what it was before.”

So, how do we address this?

Take a long, deep breath.

Reconnect with this moment.

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The moment we're sharing together.

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Just be here for a little while.

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The truth is, we know exactly how to change.

We know how change occurs on a cellular level inside your brain, in your nerve cells — your neurons.

When your neurons change in certain ways, your behaviors in the world have to change, and your experience of life has to change.

That's why the enduring philosophy of the master teachers has now become the biology lessons of the world's best scientists.

And that means a process can be applied to make the changes you want to make.

It also means that it doesn't happen overnight.

It turns out that we humans all change in a similar way.

The process requires a bit of time, a bit of repetition, and a lot of listening to ourselves, observing ourselves, shifting our intentions — in a word, ‘meditating’ for a while — practicing shifting into presence.

That's the fastest route we know for emotional change.

If you do it for a while, the changes that you make will stick.

The changes you intend through your imagination will begin to anchor into the actual cells of your body.

Over time, they become reliably reproduced in your life.

That's what meditation does.

That’s what shifting does.

That's why I repeat mantras like…

Take a long deep breath.

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Connect here and now, without interruption.

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Let's do that together for a little while longer.

Listen…

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Good.

If you continue to return to listening, after a while you won't have to struggle to remember to apply the wisdom you connect to when you meditate — the wisdom of the masters.

Once you build the habit of listening into your life, you become the wisdom.

The habit becomes second nature as you begin to embody the wisdom over time — through practice.

So let's take one more long, deep breath together for now.

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Dropping more deeply into this moment.

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Good!

Have a great day.

I’ll talk to you soon.

Stay present,

Sean

The OnePerfect Shift app is free to you if your employer or school subscribes your community.

Contact us for a team trial or try it on iPhone or Android today.

Let's take a long deep breath.

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Listening to life with all your attention.

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Trusting that if you simply listen to life with all your attention, and I mean the full 100% of your attention, you’ll drop further into a sense of presence.

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Feel gratitude come into your inner world as presence comes into your inner world.

Rather, I probably should say, ‘Feel gratitude come into your inner world as the distractions that sit on top of, and obscure, and disguise, and hide presence fade away,’ because presence is always there, after all.

Be presence for a while longer with me.

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Merge into presence anytime, by listening.

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Nice.

I thought to jump on and shift with you today because today’s Shift idea reminded me of why I moved to a very small mountain valley beach hut in California a little more than 8 years ago.

I’ve been living there in a tiny, tiny space ever since.

I thought that living sparsely surrounded by nature’s beauty was a beautiful idea.

I’ve loved doing it.

But the real motivation for my move to the hut was a recognition that I truly wanted to prioritize coming into presence by listening to life as consistently as possible — as we do when we shift together.

I felt that if I didn't prioritize that intention, I wouldn't be able to make massive progress with building that habit into my life, or improve at helping others learn how to shift, because I can be fairly distractible — particularly back then.

Being distractible makes it even more difficult to prioritize a non-concrete objective like living in presence — living in this moment — returning to this moment each time you get distracted from your intention.

My move to the hut led to an incredible personal journey.

I’ve loved it.

What provoked me to share that bit of a story today was recognizing that today’s Shift also flows out of the same intention.

And that same intention drives what we do here at OnePerfect with Shift Therapy® and OnePerfect Shift, including our personalized shifting apps ( iPhone | Android ).

Everything we do here is driven by the exact same intention that compelled me to move to a little beach hut in the mountains to prioritize presence...

To master shifting back to presence whenever you need to.

The tools that we're developing and sharing, like Shifts — and the different ways we now offer to engage with a Shift — are getting better and better.

I'm so inspired to have found that not only can we each make choices in our outer lives in support of prioritizing living in presence — from choosing where you live, to the kind of work you do, to how you structure your day, to the people that you surround yourself with, to your wellness practice, to the habits that you build into your life, to how you love — all of those things contribute to your ability to come more fully into presence more often.

AND… targeted and ever-improving digital tools are also now available for you to layer on top of your lifestyle choices to amplify your chances of getting better and better at shifting into presence — to strengthen your shifting muscle and master the skill.

We keep getting better at sharing smarter and more effective tools and strategies with you.

We’ll keep at it.

The core intention always remains — learn and prioritize the practice of coming into presence.

Presence is where you find peace.

When you know you can find peace, a lot changes about your life.

Especially in those moments that get tough.

You can come to know that you have this strategy to return yourself to peace in order to take that next step to cope with whatever it is that is feeling very tough emotionally, and or, physically in any given moment.

That's what we're doing together here.

I see developing that intention as the most powerful thing each of us can focus on in our lives.

Meanwhile, we are also a community, so I like to share what we're doing and why we're excited about it to give everyone an opportunity to jump in.

I'm glad you're doing exactly that right now by reading, and or, listening, and perhaps sharing this Shift…

If you want to take another step of engagement, try everything out and email me.

Let me know what you think, or what you’d like to see more of.

What might help support your presence practice?

Let’s take one more long, deep breath together now and come into the present moment by listening to life fully again.

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Perfect.

Feel that Shift.

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Maybe also think about one thing you can do today to improve your strategy, your structure, and your prioritization of coming into presence.

What’s one thing that you could do for yourself?

Maybe set an alarm, or a reminder to shift each day first thing in the morning, with your coffee maybe?

That's what I do.

When I do, life is very good.

Like right now, today.

Do you have a little step that you can take to affirm your commitment to return to presence and aid you in shifting a core priority?

If so, write it down where you’ll see it regularly.

And have a great rest of your day.

I'll talk to you soon.

Stay present,

Sean

The OnePerfect Shift app is free to you if your employer or school subscribes your community.

Contact us for a team trial or try it on iPhone or Android today.

Hello, again!

Let's take a long deep breath…and exhale.

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As your body releases tension, settle into comfort — knowing that we have good days sometimes and bad days other times, and great days when we feel connected to purpose.

Life feels meaningful and connected because it is — when you discover yourself within the universal story.

Paulo Coelho tells us, “To realize one's destiny is a person's only obligation”.

You can live the life you're here to live, knowing that inevitable stress will arise and difficult days will come — if you also know that you can always relax and reconnect to yourself in the midst of living out your destiny, without resistance, by just listening.

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Good.

Is there anything that's not objectively scary but still kind of terrifies you?

Maybe it's saying ‘no’ to someone who's pressuring you.

Maybe it’s making a speech in public. That's it for a lot of people.

Maybe it’s allowing yourself to be vulnerable.

Just putting yourself out there can be terrifying for some people, even if it's not objectively scary.

How about honestly speaking your truth to some particular person in your life?

Maybe for you it’s just sitting quietly alone in this moment.

If there is something in particular for you, and you'd like to be fearless through it, whatever ‘it’ is, the fear needs to be confronted.

Just thinking that you'll face it differently next time, is the best way to ensure you'll repeat that same emotional cycle again later.

If you ever want to move through it, now is the time to plan for the next time your fear arises.

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Good.

Now, ask yourself: What fear do you need to confront so that the next time you’re faced with it you’ll have confidence that you can face it head on?

What is that next fear for you to overcome?

The patterns of our arising fears repeat over and over again.

So, you have to actively make the decision about whether you want to confront it.

You'll have to face it consistently.

When you decide to make a different choice like we're going to do today, you'll begin to have a different outcome.

It can be scary.

But, it's a choice.

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A great way to motivate yourself to address an old fear in a new way is to ask yourself, what's the most important thing that will happen when you confront the fear successfully?

One answer I can assure you of is that you'll have a different physiological body afterwards.

Your body's reaction will change when you face the fear because you will have given your body and your brain a new experience, which means they're required to produce a different future for you.

You’ll have walked into what you saw as a fire in your body, and you will have come through it.

So, your body will know that the fire is not what you thought it was and a new body state will begin to arise to respond differently next time the fear begins to arise.

That's growth.

Take another deep breath with me.

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What is it?

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Fully commit to confronting it.

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Have you committed to facing it?

Good.

Here's how you can amplify your commitment.

Answer this question: What will happen for you when you confront the fear — when you stand up to this false demon?

I want you to recognize the benefits of standing up to this fear.

How will your life change for the better?

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Good.

I'll leave this with you…

If you make a practice of stepping toward fear each time it arises, instead of turning away from it, you'll get better and better at facing it — until you've mastered a new part of your life.

Then, you'll feel ready to take on the next challenge your life offers.

You will have seen that conquering fear feels amazing.

That opens up your path to moving forward in your life fearlessly.

So commit to stepping toward fear to let it go.

You can do this!

Good luck.

Good job listening for and hearing a fear provoking story you're telling yourself — and experiencing aspects of the story that is creating your life of tomorrow.

Some days will have a greater sense of fearlessness pervading the background of your awareness, and a greater sense of being meaningful.

Getting to that place of fearlessness is different for everyone.

For each of us though, it's essential to learn how to face fear in order learn how let it go.

Facing fear is how you discover what works to shift yourself into a state of mind and body that is connected to your purpose.

Face whatever you're resisting in any moment.

Then, take a long deep breath and let it go.

Have a great day.

I’ll talk to you soon.

Stay present,

Sean

P.S. Personalize a Shift in OnePerfect Shift iPhone or Android app anytime.

Take a walk with me, if you have a few minutes.

Hello! I took a walk while recording this Shift.

Apologies for the audio buzz from the wind on this recording. We’ll get it cleaned up.

For now, please enjoy this live cut with me.

Stay present,

Sean

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Let’s take a long, deep breath.

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Nice.

When I have what I think of as an ‘important upcoming event,’ my mind often starts going a little bit faster — into a new gear — to prepare.

Does that happen to you too?

It can be good and bad, right?

The good is the intensity is there.

That accelerated emotional and psychological space tends to surface things that are important for that particular ‘important’ endeavor.

That tends to be the case for all of us.

The downside is that your thinking can get in the way.

It can also provoke anxiety when your mind races about something that you think of as important to you.

So today I wanted to talk about how you find that sweet spot that allows you to get amped up to prepare in a way that's effective, while not getting in your own way.

And, when you do start to sense yourself getting in your own way you can have a strategy that you can rely on 100% to bring you back to where you need to be…

presence.

Let's take another long, deep breath.

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And just listen to life.

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Drop into presence more deeply with me for 20 seconds or so just listening with 100% of your attention.

What are those sounds you hear right now that you otherwise wouldn't hear?

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Notice the shift continuing — into presence.

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What do you hear?

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Perfect.

Through that listening exercise, I hoped to illustrate the main point and strategy that I wanted to share today.

This strategy works for me and I think it works universally if you learn to apply it in your own life: That is, understanding that your rapid thinking is what tends to get in the way of your ability to listen.

When you're rapidly thinking, and it's not based on having listened closely to what you’re hearing in your inner world and in the outer world, you’re not allowing your mind to fully engage in that moment.

When you stop listening, your rapid thinking can quickly turn into emotional distraction. One of the forms of emotional distraction can be stress, anxiety.

I’m talking about the importance of fully recognizing that your life experience flows through you in every moment.

You life flows through your 30 trillion cells, and then it flows into your inner world —including into your mental experience.

So, being able to listen and hear that activity needs to be a higher priority to you than dictating what the present moment is, i.e,…

You can't tell 30 trillion interacting cells what they ‘should’ be saying.

You need to listen to hear what they are saying — and follow their lead.

When you’re doing that, that's your sweet spot.

That's your flow.

That's your zone.

That's when life gets very free and very good — and also oftentimes accelerates you into a new level of confidence and performance, because you've removed all the friction in your inner world.

By listening fully, you remove the friction that gets paradoxically generated from trying too hard by from thinking too much — from the cycle of thinking too much that can occur when stress and fear arise — because you're not fully listening in the present moment.

Listening is an act of trust and curiosity.

It's saying: I believe, I understand, I know that if I listen, to myself, to life, that my unique purpose, which I know is flowing through me each moment, will be facilitated through the act of listening with all my attention.

If you've done a bunch of Shifts, you know that you can listen with your ears and you can also listen with your other ‘portals of presence.’

The more portals of presence that you're listening through, the more deeply you might embody the lessons of any given moment.

Let’s listen to life together as we feel air on our skin now.

Close your eyes if you want — if you're sitting still.

Allow yourself to feel that body buzz that you can pick up after you've noticed the feeling of air brushing against your skin.

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Deepen the listening with your body by listening to your body and to the outer world at the same time.

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As you shift, notice if some gratitude arises as presence emerges.

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Nice. That was a perfect quick Shift into presence.

Thank you for shifting with me.

Have a great rest of your day!

Set your intention to stay present with whatever is next for you today.

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Feel that intention anchoring in your body now.

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Can you feel the intention anchored in your inner world?

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Perfect.

I'll talk to you soon.

Stay present.

Sean

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