SHIFT

You know when the best time to Shift is?

When you don't feel like it.

When you're in a place that you're not feeling like taking care of yourself as well as you could.

When you don't feel great, you often won't really want to do anything about it.

That's the moment that should be the trigger to do a Shift.

That's how I was feeling today — just now, actually.

So I’m heading out for a little walk to shift my mind and body with you.

Take a long, deep breath.

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Set the very specific intention to bring yourself into the present moment — into presence — for the next few minutes.

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Recharge.

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Allow your whole body to relax.

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Allow your shoulders to fall towards the ground.

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Allow your arms to fall towards the ground.

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If you're walking like I am, relax into each step.

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Commit to enjoying the next few minutes of peace and presence.

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Nice.

Let's listen to life together now.

There's some ocean sounds in the background where I am.

If you listen closely you might hear it.

Let's go 20 seconds with 100% of our attention focused on listening to life.

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As you listen, notice whether you shift a little bit.

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Notice if you come into a deeper sense of presence.

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Notice if whatever it was that was bringing you down before — whether it was the thoughts running through your mind, or just a little bit of tiredness — notice whether how you’re feeling shifts a little bit as you listen.

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Let’s listen for another 20 seconds.

Just listening with 100% of your attention

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Perfect.

Feel that?

Feel any different?

Feel a bit of a shift?

It always helps to take a few long, deep breaths and set the intention to be present for a little while.

You can allow yourself to be focused on any of your portals of presence anytime.

Let's feel the air on our skin together now, as we keep listening to life for 20 seconds more.

100% of your attention listening and feeling that air on your skin now.

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Again, feel yourself shifting into presence.

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It doesn't have to take much time or effort — especially when you're not doing great.

Just take a little dive into the present moment.

Especially if you're not doing great, you'll often quickly get a bit of a shift into a better place — if not a big shift.

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If you start that way — by coming into presence.

Then, after you shift a bit, set an intention to focus on whatever you want to be focused on for the next hour or so.

What will you be doing to keep bringing yourself back into a good state of mind — a state of mind you want to be in?

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What will make you feel engaged, motivated, or perhaps at peace with a nice quiet mind for the next hour?

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Whatever is next for you today, bring it into your awareness and intend to engage with it fully — for the next hour or so.

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Can you feel your intention to fully engage being set inside you?

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Nice.

Have a great rest of your day.

Stay present.

I'll talk to you soon.

Sean

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A struggling friend who I hadn’t seen in years asked me when and why I learned to strategically shift my state of mind.

My answer became the ‘Shift With An Old Friend’ that follows.

I had an unbelievably difficult emotional experience in college that led me to need to learn how to shift into a better place.

Back then, I'd gotten into emotional places I didn't want to be in anymore.

I'd experienced plenty of incredibly beautiful states of mind and body by then too.

Having experienced the emotional spectrum, I wanted to make sure I knew how to return to a peaceful state of mind and body whenever I needed to.

Actually, I needed to learn.

I was definitely interested in learning how to shift my emotional state in ways that would allow me to perform my best as well.

But my deepest motivation for learning how to shift my state of mind and body on demand was pain-inspired initially.

That’s the motivation that pushes most people learn to ‘shift.’

Shifting shows you that walking with your deepest cut, your deepest pain, can transform you into your joy.

Repeatedly making an inner journey through your pain and into peace and presence enables you to recognize, and eventually embody, your most liberated emotional states.

I found that making that inner journey to presence repeatedly— with a Shift, for example — is required, before most of us develop a consistently accessible present state of mind and body.

It seems that the human condition forces us to repeatedly navigate our unique inner journey back to peace along the path to fully thriving in our lives.

It can take a long time, but it’s a beautiful journey.

So…

Let’s strategically navigate ourselves into presence for a couple minutes together right now.

Start with a long, deep breath.

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Relax your entire body and come fully into this moment.

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Set your intention to focus 100% of your attention on your inner journey for a little while.

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What's the part of your personal story that has been molding you into your purpose during this precious, unique, miraculous life of yours?

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Take another deep breath and relax even more.

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Allow a question to hang in the space of your inner world:

What's the part of your personal story that has been molding you into your purpose during this precious, unique, miraculous life of yours?

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Close your eyes if you want to.

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Listen to life with 100% of your attention for one minute.

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Notice what arises in your inner world.

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What's arising in your inner world?

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Whatever arises, just notice it. Then, silently respond to it, as follows:

“Thank you for raising this issue to my attention, but for now I'm letting everything go as I shift into presence for a while.

I’m listening to life with 100% of my attention right now.

I know you will arise again later. And I will greet you later.

For the next minute, I'm committed to letting go of everything — and listening to life with 100% of my attention.”

Listen to life with 100% of your attention.

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Listen with your ears and your eyes.

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Even if your eyes are closed, listen with your eyes.

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Come more fully into presence.

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Feel the air on your skin in this moment.

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Notice how you feel right now.

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Have you shifted toward presence?

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Do you feel present in this moment?

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Fully commit to listening to life with all your senses for 30 more seconds.

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Deepen your presence by listening to and feeling life with 100% of your attention.

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Perfect.

A perfect, if brief, inner journey to presence.

The more you shift the easier it gets.

Have a great rest of your day!

Talk to you soon.

Stay present,

Sean

Our intention with the ‘Shift Into Presence’ series is to get you to the skill level where no matter how you're feeling at any moment, you can shift yourself into presence by taking just one long, deep breath.

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That would be ideal, right?

That's what we're looking for.

It is possible to take one long, deep breath and come into presence — if you've practiced developing the skill of shifting your state of mind and body on-demand.

Take another deep breath, and feel yourself coming more into presence than you felt a moment ago.

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Feel your body shift into presence as you take that long, deep breath — and then listen to life with 100% of your attention.

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You are 30 trillion buzzing cells right now — always.

You're buzzing as part of the miracle of life.

You're connected to the miracle.

Can you feel the miracle on your skin?

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Listen to, hear and feel the miracle for a while.

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Breathe the miracle.

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BE with all your attention, fully understanding what you're doing:

Being the miracle of life.

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Be here, buzzing.

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Feel yourself fully as presence.

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Allow all thoughts to fade away.

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Allow all stress to fade away.

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Listen and feel.

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Notice what comes up.

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Inevitably, you'll be interrupted by a thought, a stress, a to-do list, a worry, an attachment.

What do you do then?

Take another long, deep breath.

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Drop back into presence, bringing 100% of your attention to listening, to being.

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Turn all your attention to your favorite portals of presence.

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If you get distracted again, listen to life again.

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Be here.

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Be now.

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Be okay.

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Notice.

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If something persistent arises in your inner world, notice — what is it about that thing?

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What is it that you can't let go?

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Let go of your attachment to whatever it is, for now.

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Maybe you're feeling judged negatively, or you're judging yourself negatively?

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Are you worried about what you'll have to go back to after you take this respite?

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Let go, for now.

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If you always return to presence, life gets beautiful.

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It takes some time.

And….

It only takes a moment.

Take one long, deep breath.

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Return to presence with a long, deep breath anytime you get distracted away.

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Perfect.

Allow your shoulders to relax more now.

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Allow your arms to fall toward the ground.

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Feel your body against whatever you're sitting against.

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Feel that body buzz.

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Deepen into presence and just sit for a while.

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Let's listen to life together for one minute.

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Another long, deep breath.

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Set that intention to be fully present for a minute or so.

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Notice how you feel right now.

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Blend how you feel — present — into knowing yourself as aspect of the miracle of life.

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Blend your awareness further into the miraculous, buzzing edges of your body — your skin.

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There is no separation between the life on your skin and the air you're pulling in.

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Be life for a while longer.

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Listening.

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Feeling.

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Being.

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Shift fully into presence.

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Life is good.

Life is beautiful.

Life can also be stressful.

That's why we practice shifting into presence.

You can always modulate your emotional life by taking a long, deep breath and then opening up to the bigger picture of which you're part — before you zoom back in to the life you're living today.

Remain connected to the body, and the life, you're evolving through.

Feel yourself as buzzing silence for ten, long, seconds, more…

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Listen.

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Nice.

Have a great rest of your day.

I'll talk to you soon.

Stay present,

Sean

P.S. Shift Into Presence (1)

Let's take a long, deep breath.

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I woke up in a bad mood recently.

It happens from time to time.

It was difficult to figure out why it happened the other day.

It could have been my sugar was way too low, or maybe something was bothering me that I wasn’t able to identify.

Usually I have a good sense for what it is that is bothering me.

This last time though, I wasn’t sure.

I just had that feeling inside.

Annoyed.

Grouchy.

For some people, that happens every day they wake up!

For some people, it happens rarely.

For me, it happens fairly rarely now, thankfully.

But when it happens, you know it.

So does anyone around you!

On those mornings, especially, I remind myself that I’m just a Shift away from feeling at peace — anytime.

When I'm annoyed, I usually choose a slightly longer Shift to get back to good.

Hopefully, I get all the way back to ‘great’ in a few minutes.

At the worst, you know you can always shift your state enough to get on with enjoying the day — and that’s saying a lot.

To me, that’s the ultimate practical value of mastering shifting your state of mind on demand.

As you learn in the Starter Program, everyone develops their own shifting style and preferences.

For me, the key to getting started with a Shift is to recognize myself as deeply connected to life.

We are each an aspect of life right now — at this unique moment.

We are not separate.

We’re not here to fight life.

We’re not here to fight the day — to struggle — as my recent morning felt like.

Here’s the Shift I used to get back to good that day…

Take a long, deep breath.

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Become aware that in a few minutes you’ll be feeling better than you feel right now.

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Notice how it feels in the moment that you become aware of the virtual certainty of your shift into a better state of mind coming to pass in a few minutes.

For me, it feels like something to look forward to is around the corner.

Maybe it’ll be a deep feeling of peace that will arise within you.

Or, maybe you’ll encounter a deep insight that will change the course of your day — or your life — as you shift through feeling annoyed.

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I suggest you close your eyes for this Shift — especially if you typically read Shifts, try listening today to experiment with how that works for you.

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Relax and sink into your space, wherever you are — either sitting or lying down.

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Allow your entire body to relax.

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Relax all your muscles.

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Relax from your shoulders and neck on down.

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Sink deeper into your seat.

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As you let go of all that tension, let go of all the thoughts flowing in your head too.

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Let go of any thoughts about what you are annoyed by.

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Let go of any thoughts that you aren't even recognizing are there, but that may be contributing to your negative-tinged state of mind and body.

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Breathe in and just release them all.

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Allow any thoughts that enter your mind for the next few minutes to flow through.

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Observe them.

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Notice them.

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Now, let them go.

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For the next few minutes, you are presence.

You are life.

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Recognize every journey through life as an impossible, beautiful and glorious experience.

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Within your journey, you can choose to release stress anytime.

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It’s not always easy.

A good Shift doesn’t even always stick for too long.

Regardless, shifting develops your mental fitness each and every time you do it.

Set your intention to come further into the present moment now.

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Keep all of your attention in the present moment.

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All of your feeling attention is right here.

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Listen to life with 100% of your attention.

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Feeling life, without interruption now.

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Your mind is clearing.

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You’re filling with silence.

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Embed yourself fully in presence now.

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Your mind and body are connecting to the rest of life.

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Feel life buzzing against your skin.

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Feel the air on your hands.

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Feel your head tingling.

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Feel your whole body tingling with life.

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Feel and listen for 20 seconds.

Focus 100% of your attention on listening to life for 20 seconds.

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Feel life.

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Perfect.

Take note of how you feel.

Notice the difference of the feeling inside your brain and body right now.

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You've given yourself a shift into the present moment — into a deepened connection with life.

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Relax for another 20 seconds.

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Just being life.

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Feel embedded in life.

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Know yourself as an aspect of life.

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Relaxing.

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Being.

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Being you.

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Perfect.

When you’re ready, emerge from your deep silence, but keep all your attention in the present moment — remain present.

Be present as you consider the next step of your day.

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Allow thoughts or images of whatever is next in your day to arise within you.

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Focus intentionally on whatever is next for you today.

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Is there a ‘doing’ that's next for you today?

Is there something that you plan to engage with?

Or, are you going to just stay in presence for a while?

Whatever it is, set the intention to engage with it fully.

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Remain fully present as you transition out of your strategic shift and back to your outer life.

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We're going to stay connected to the presence that has subsumed our minds and bodies — for the rest of today.

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Stillness is the background of your day.

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Bring that intention to your next task.

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Your intention is to remain present with life during your next task.

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Bring full attention to it.

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What’s next for you?

Whether it's getting up and making breakfast, or getting to your computer and working on something, or going for a workout, or being with your family, or checking that next step off your list that needs to get done today — clearly see your life’s next step in your mind's eye right now.

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See yourself engaging with your next step now — bringing your full presence to it.

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Purpose flows through presence.

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Purpose flows from presence.

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See your next step with increasing clarity now.

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Feel it.

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Attach to it.

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Become it.

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Nice.

Open your eyes when you're feeling peaceful and ready.

Have a great one.

Stay present,

Sean

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Listen to waves with 100% of your attention for 60 seconds to Shift today.

As you listen, see if you can notice the distracting sound that arises in the background AND notice how your inner world reacts automatically in real time.

If you get distracted, notice whether you can immediately shift back into presence when you get distracted.

Ready?

Close your eyes if you want.

Listen…

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Perfect.

Great job.

Did you notice the distraction? Did it distract or annoy you?

Anytime you get distracted from your intention to have your attention focused where you want it, simply notice the distraction and immediately reset your intention to focus 100% of your attention on what you’ve chosen to focus on.

You can do that to return to presence anytime.

Each time you do it, you’re training yourself to return to present mind state more naturally.

Have a great day.

Stay present,

Sean

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

Hello, Hello. How are you?

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Let's take our first of several long, deep breaths together.

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Are you looking forward to the weekend?

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Take another long, deep breath and relax your shoulders.

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Now, focus 100% of your attention on listening to life.

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Listen for sounds you otherwise wouldn’t hear.

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Can you notice a little mini-shift when you put 100% of your attention into listening?

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Feel for that shift.

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Feel life buzzing on your skin now.

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Nice.

Let's set an intention to dive deep into presence as we listen to life together and breathe deeply for another minute.

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Feel yourself shifting more into presence as you breathe and listen to life with your complete attention.

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Feel it.

You can always feel a shift when you take the time to intentionally make a Shift.

One of the things that helps me reconnect with that fact is remembering that we each inhabit different mental states throughout our days.

You can't always be in a peak state.

But, you can be aware as you shift through mind states throughout a given day that dropping further into presence is always to your emotional, physical, and health benefit.

Everything about being in presence is aligned with health.

If you spend a lot of time in presence, you know that being present feels like a healthy place.

Presence is a place from which you tend to make healthy feeling decisions too.

Presence is always a positive amplifier of your current state.

It might be that you're getting hyped up in order to generate enough energy to do something important — so you bring presence into that intention.

Or, you might want to come into quiet or silence to chill by yourself — to enjoy your body, your life, your environment, and the sounds that surround you.

Either way, presence is your amplifier.

Let’s come further into presence.

Listen to life with 100% of your attention for 20 seconds.

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Nice.

Let’s shift deeper into a beautiful, peaceful Friday state of presence to shift into weekend mode now.

Take another long, deep breath.

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Allow your arms to relax even more.

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Allow yours shoulders to fall to the ground again.

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Had your shoulders tensed up since the last time you intentionally relaxed them?

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Notice.

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Remind yourself that you can always enhance your state by being exceptionally present.

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Take your time.

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Enjoy your now.

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Feel yourself shifting deeper into presence.

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Set the intention to be present and have fun now — and for the weekend.

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Let’s take one last deep breath together for now.

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Sink deep into now.

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Feel it.

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Ahhh.

Have a great rest of your day.

Talk to you soon.

Stay present,

Sean

P.S. Here’s an HR News article that may interest you.

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Let's take a long deep breath.

Come fully into this moment.

How are you?

What's going on over there?

Is life good?

Set that intention to come into a present state for a little while.

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Allow your shoulders to relax.

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Your arms to fall toward the ground.

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I like to move my head around in a circle to begin to chill.

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Listen to life for 10 seconds.

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Really notice that shift inside your body.

That body shift that occurs along with that shift inside your mind.

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Nice.

I did a podcast guest appearance recently.

The conversation was so interesting because the person I was talking to mentioned that she felt very anxious regularly.

And, she asked if we could, for this talk, focus on how not to have that anxiety be part of our lives?

I thought that was just brilliant because that’s the purpose of the efforts we make here — to live a life of presence.

To live a life of purpose.

So I thought the idea of specifically talking on a podcast to actually practice being chill together — exploring how we can move through our days percolating at a level of stress that doesn't veer into that anxiety too much — was genius.

We each want a level of stress that allows us to embody a state of mind and body that keeps us feeling connected within the flow of our day — not feeling overly stressed.

That ultimately entails learning how to shift your state back to a state of presence, each time you notice that you've fallen out of that peace.

So we did exactly that practice for that podcast episode.

We loved it.

I’d say we succeeded in being chill together.

We nerded out a bit together and got real too.

It was fun.

I’ll drop a link to that episode of “Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning” below this Shift.

The conversation reminded me again of why we engage with shifting into presence very intentionally and strategically here — and throughout our days.

We anchor ourselves to the objective of coming into chill, into peace and into presence with each other in each Shift, right?

That’s why we set the intention to live presently, peacefully throughout our Shifts and throughout our days.

It's the coolest thing to know that you can make strides towards living at peace just by doing that.

You could literally see changes that happen within your brain if you’ve practiced for a while.

The research shows changes in brains that correlate with producing feeling states that are associated with coming into presence regularly.

So let's get back to being intentionally present, by feeling our bodies now.

Feel that tingling sensation flowing throughout your body.

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Place all your attention into your body.

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Feel that buzz of life buzzing through you.

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How do 30 trillion buzzing cells feel?

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Feel the buzz of them cells :)

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Your whole body buzzes with life.

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Feel it.

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Sink into it with 100% of your attention.

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Feeling that buzz.

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Deep breath.

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If anything is interfering with your presence, just take a note of what it is.

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Then, let it go.

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If you need to, write it down.

Then, let it go.

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Come back to it later.

For now, all presence.

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Feel that tingling body buzz as you also listen to life now.

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Feels good.

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Feels so good.

Set that intention to live in presence — to be present — for the rest of your day now too.

Have an incredible one.

Thank you, by the way.

I want to express my gratitude to you for keeping me shifting regularly — by shifting with me.

Community is so huge.

And I feel you.

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So, thank you.

Have a great rest of your day!

Stay present,

Sean

P.S. Here’s the podcast episode link I mentioned above, if you want to check it out — Neuroscience Meets Social and Emotional Learning.

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Hello, friend!

Shift Psychology’s Future is better listened to than read, IMHO.

Take a deep breath and tap above to begin the audio.

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You can learn more about how OnePerfect is building the future of psychology at the link below as well.

Stay present,

Sean

P.S. Want to dig deeper? Valerie Moses and I look into the future of shifting and psychology in this new podcast episode.

Let's take a long, deep breath.

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I'm sitting in a Zen Garden today.

Join me here.

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It's gorgeous out.

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Let's set an intention to come 100% into presence by listening to life with 100% of our attention for 10 seconds.

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Hear what you wouldn't otherwise hear.

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Nice.

Life is good.

Take another deep breath.

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Do you feel any more here and now?

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Do you feel any more present?

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Just being present with 100% of your attention releases stress.

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A couple minutes of intentional presence every day is very good for you.

So take another deep breath and set an intention to be fully present for a little while with me.

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Setting a specific intention to be present is a big deal.

So feel your intention being set inside you now.

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So often in our lives most of us (maybe, all of us) feel guilty or ashamed.

We get overrun by a sense of shame or guilt.

Many times though, the judgments that we make of ourselves are judgments that arise from somebody else's standards — somebody else's life experience.

Because we are each unique, I believe one of the most important things we can do in our lives is discover our own truth.

Find the truth out of which your standards flow.

Find the standards that work for you — for your unique life.

Then lean into your truth, your standards.

And lean into your relationships.

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Recommit to living your truth moving forward.

Honor your truth, so people know who you are.

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And your people can then be present for you.

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Identify your own standards.

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Get clear about what your standards are and why they are right for you.

Connect to a personal truth of yours right now.

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How present do you feel when you connect to a truth of yours?

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Do you feel completely here and now?

Let's listen to life even more fully now.

Feel your life flowing through you for 10 seconds.

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Feel your way fully into presence — not thinking about being present, but rather, feeling your body’s existing presence.

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Find your state of flow by listening to your life’s unique journey.

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Follow your personal miracle by listening for the pace of your miracle.

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Listen and live the pace of your miracle by dropping into your body and feeling life fully — with your entire body now.

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Feel presence.

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Keep listening to life with your whole body.

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Feel yourself as life.

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Let's listen to life for 30 seconds more.

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Focus 100% of your attention on listening to, and with, your body.

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Listen to your world.

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If you get distracted anytime, just come back into the present moment by returning to listening with 100% of your attention.

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Listen and feel life.

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Keep listening and feeling.

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Perfect.

That was beautiful.

Stay present.

Have a great rest of your day.

I'll talk to you soon.

Sean

Let's take a walk.

Start with a long, deep breath.

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Let's relax our shoulders.

Allow our arms to be loose, and fall toward the ground.

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I'm out here in the fields of a farm nearby where I live.

It's beautiful.

Clouds rolling over.

A perfect time to deepen our connection to presence.

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Let's relax into it by listening to life for 20 seconds together.

Notice how you shift.

Set that intention to shift more into this moment by listening to life and noticing.

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Some of the best 20 seconds of the day right there, right?

I’ve been getting asked a lot of questions as an interview and podcast guest.

I love talking to people about what we do here — shifting and our Shift Therapy® future.

On some level, all of the questions I hear boil down to one place.

This is a place I think of as a window through which any of us can look.

When you're looking through this window, so much of life is visible to you.

Looking through this window allows you to see, hear, feel and experience so much more of the life that is pouring through each of us each moment.

You can look through that window by connecting to the concept that you, and I, and life, are miraculous.

You are 30 trillion buzzing cells!

You are more than language, or conceptualization, could ever capture in thought.

Listening to that genius of life of you opens you up to life.

Whenever you connect with that genius for yourself, or you speak it in your own language — with your own words — your life opens further.

BTW, that's why in the OnePerfect Shift App you have the ability to record and save your own Shifts in your private library.

Your can record your own Shifts, or save whatever you might be working on.

You can also blend your recorded words into Shifts that you’ll complete down the road.

By doing that, you'll always be reminding yourself of what's most important to you.

Try that feature out on iPhone or Android in a free trial anytime.

Let's take one more deep breath.

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Life is miraculous.

You are life buzzing.

Listen.

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Perfect.

That wasn't a bad walk, was it?

Let's now set the intention to stay fully relaxed, fully present, for the rest of the day.

Or, maybe you want to drop into a deep state of flow for the rest of your day?

Whatever’s up next for you, set the intention to be present with it now.

I'm going to finish up my walk and stay present for the rest of the day.

I’ll be here listening for whatever the miracle of life shows me next.

Have a great one.

Talk to you soon.

Stay present,

Sean

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