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Hello, hello. Hope you’re doing well.

Let’s take a long deep breath to get started.

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Invite our attention fully into the present moment for the next few minutes.

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And shift loneliness today.

Life can be very lonely sometimes, can't it?

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It's not only about the perspective you bring to any given moment that relates to how lonely you feel.

Life cycles — regardless of your perspective.

So sometimes you're naturally more oriented to particular aspects of life.

One of those aspects of each of our lives is the human experience of being separate and feeling separate.

And therefore, potentially feeling particularly alone and lonely at certain times.

And, of course, life events can provoke loneliness too.

Experiences of loss, unrequited love, a bad day — it’s all part of most every human life.

When you drop deeply into presence though, it's very possible to reconnect yourself to life and shift your inner experience.

To me, that is the most obvious way to shift out of loneliness in the moment anytime.

And we’ll do that today together.

But it's also useful to think about another approach to shifting loneliness.

Think about this idea as a complementary approach to shifting into connection with life…

Putting your love into the world.

Let’s step inside and take another deep breath together.

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Feel silence flowing into and through you.

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Connect to that.

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One way to think about loneliness is to understand it as a reaction to not feeling love coming toward you.

That's why this this idea, this action — this activity of putting your love into the world — is so useful and important.

It is your ‘putting love into the world’ that is part of the cycle of feeling the love that is within you.

The challenge can be, especially when you’re feeling down sometimes, that it feels like you have to put so much love into the world in order to see and feel that love coming back.

But, it might be that the love that you're putting into the world is bringing love back to you in a way that you're not fully noticing — or that you didn't anticipate.

And that recognition — if you can see it — can also impact a sense of loneliness that may be underlying some idea that you're putting love in the world and you're not feeling it back.

Putting love into the world is expressing the love in you, and therefore it connects you to love in your life.

When you do that, and you listen closely and feel deeply, you’ll often feel that life is loving you back.

Let’s do that today.

But first, here are a few ways to address loneliness anytime —

* Dropping into presence fully, (i.e., the most obvious and fastest way to shift loneliness).

* Putting your love into the world, (i.e. make sure you're doing that to participate in shifting yourself out of loneliness).

* Noticing whether love may in fact be coming into you, but you are looking for it in a different form than it is appearing.

* Being very realistic by understanding that things often take time, and feelings in your life ebb and flow like the seasons. So sometimes you may need to keep putting love into the world for a while before you feel it coming back to you.

I’m not a big fan of pretending that there's not genuine, painful, authentic, and accurate feelings of loneliness that we each experience throughout life.

Loneliness is part of our lives.

But I am suggesting that shifting out of that experience in the ways that we're talking about today — those that feel authentic to you — is a great practice and definitely helps.

So how are you putting love into the world?

And, is it possible that it's coming back to you (if you're feeling lonely) in a form that you weren't anticipating — but nevertheless in a beautiful form?

Maybe sit with those questions as we dive in the silence for a minute together.

Let’s take another long, deep breath.

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And another.

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Think about this form of love in your life:

The fact that you are a miracle — you're a living miracle, buzzing with life.

When I say ‘living miracle’ some people get turned off by that language.

What I mean to communicate is something very practical and scientific though.

It’s that you (i.e. your body) are literally composed of roughly 30 trillion cells that are buzzing you into life each moment.

And your body, your cells, are completely dependent upon and connected to your environment, including the air that you breathe in — the air that feeds you.

The oxygen that gives you the breath of life.

So you are miraculous and never alone in that sense.

You are fully connected to life, and to your environment which is part of life.

Can you feel a shift within you when you come more deeply into awareness of those facts?

How does that awareness shift loneliness for you?

Just notice any inner changes that may have occurred for a few moments.

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Does acknowledging those truths help you see love coming back to you in a different way than you were expecting, or hoping for?

Let’s sit with all that for a few moments.

Spend some time in pure silence before I talk you through entering silence through your body specifically.

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Good.

Now place all your attention into your body — 100% of your attention.

Notice your body’s buzzing aliveness.

If it helps you connect to the buzzing feeling within you, you can squeeze your thumb really hard — squeeze your left thumb for three or four seconds.

Then release your thumb as you notice the sensations that arise when you release — the buzzing aliveness of your thumb.

Doing that can help you pick up the strong buzzing of you.

Then feel that buzzing, that tingling life, in your entire hand.

And then allow the feeling to spread from your hand to your entire body.

That trick can help you pick up the buzz of you — your body buzz.

What is that buzz?

That's you, alive, aspect of life, never alone, but sometimes lonely.

Feel that.

Sit in that feeling state and see what arises for you for the next minute.

All your attention feeling your body and listening to life.

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Perfect.

Did anything come up?

As I listened, I heard a question: How are you putting your authentic love into the world?

Is it flowing through you as a reaction — as gratitude to being aspect of life, to being alive and connected to everything?

How is that awareness flowing through you into the world today?

Is it flowing in the form of gratitude, or care, or love, or sensitivity, or your art maybe?

How is it flowing today?

Can you notice that within that flow — within that giving of yourself — you are more deeply connecting to life?

A lot of times coming deeply into that awareness absorbs and subsumes any sense of loneliness for me.

Is it doing that for you today?

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Anyway, food for thought, and for feeling better :)

Let's take another couple more deep breaths and say goodbye for now.

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Remember, you are always welcome here.

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Let’s set an intention to remain present for the rest of the day.

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Nice.

Have a great one.

Stay present,

Sean

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Hello friend.

Let’s take a long deep breath — and shift together.

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I was looking back at last year’s ‘Shift Into The Holidays’ which we’ll revisit in a few moments.

It’s a reminder that deep bonds with others and with life, however expressed, are core to what being human is.

Your bonds form the spine of your life’s journey.

Ideally, the holidays offer some space to take stock of your journey.

Are you feeling actively engaged in live?

Are you living as you want to?

Are you remembering you’re a part of a miracle beyond conception?

Is your relationship to life feeling right on to you?

I ask myself those questions every day.

There's a lot of gratitude and peacefulness in my heart and life today.

I hope there’s a lot of peacefulness in your heart too.

The right track is never too far away though, regardless of where you are right now.

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You can always take a deep breath and come into presence.

Let's do that together.

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I'll make a few suggestions about how we can have a great holiday with family or friends in a minute here.

All our intention just listening in this moment for now.

Full presence.

We can be here 100% whenever we choose to.

Assert your intention to place your attention in the present moment.

And listen to life with me for 20 seconds.

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Perfect.

Let's step outside and listen to the beach waves in the background as we shift into the holidays.

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Set an intention to be intentional about how you're going into the holidays.

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Take another long deep breath and listen.

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Who is the person that you want to be for your loved ones, and with your loved ones?

It's a good question to ask and answer before you engage with other questions about what you should do in those difficult moments — or with those difficult loved ones.

Or, with those people who you don't feel love for — but who are there in your family circle, or your friends circle, somehow.

Those choices will flow out of your answer to the first question…

The first and most important question is, how do you want to be?

Who is the ‘you’ you'd like to bring to your holidays?

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Do you have a sense of your answer?

If you can capture it in a phrase, you might want to jot it down so you have an easy reference when an inevitable challenge comes up.

Once you have a sense of the immutable you — the present you — you're in great shape, because you’ve connected to your intention.

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Feel it?

Good.

If you also want to do a little pre-troubleshooting around things that could come up, keep in mind that your expectations are huge drivers of actual events — and of other people's behaviors.

What you expect is going to happen will influence what does happen.

So be careful about what you expect as you troubleshoot.

That point also suggests that the idea of troubleshooting really should be a process of catching yourself — noticing yourself when you shift out of your prioritized, intentional state of being with your loved ones, or with your time off.

So let's sit with the intention to primarily return yourself to an intentional state of mind whenever any “trouble” arises, or any stress arises, or anytime you get pulled out of your intention — distracted from it, somehow.

First, you’ll notice the distraction. Then, you’ll return to your intentional state of mind.

Reset your intention now.

Spending a minute getting into sync with our intentions by bringing them into our bodies helps your intentions to become a reality set within you for the next few days, if not longer.

Ready?

We’ll take about one minute.

Close your eyes if you want and bring your intention to mind — the state you intend to shift back into if you ever notice yourself getting triggered emotionally.

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If you bring your intention to mind enough, you'll shift into the feeling state of that intention in your body.

If it's love you intend, you'll start feeling love.

If it’s gratitude you intend, you’ll start feeling gratitude.

See yourself in your intended state in order to bring yourself into it right now.

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Do you feel the state welling up?

Picture a scene of you expressing yourself as you want to, and being as you want to now.

Are you smiling?

Are you interacting?

How are you feeling?

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Feel it.

Amplify it now by really sinking in, diving deep into the feeling state — your intention.

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Embody your intention.

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Got it?

Awesome.

Have a great time with your time off.

Return to your intention when you need to.

Talk to you soon.

Stay present,

Sean

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In today’s Shift that follows, we’ll set an intention to come into presence each morning for three days in a row — to support a key weekend habit.

Ready?

Hey there, how are you?

Let’s take a long deep breath and get started dropping into presence — as we often do.

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And out.

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Feel that immediate mini-shift?

We’re going to Shift into this weekend today.

We do a live Weekend Recharge event every so often, beginning with this…

“Monday morning will be the third morning in a row that I begin my day fully connected to the present moment.”

We set that intention together during our Weekend Recharge events to get started.

And you’ll set that intention during your Shift today.

“Monday morning will be the third morning in a row that I begin my day fully connected to the present moment.”

During Weekend Recharge events, we commit to that intention during a brief Zoom Shift talk I give on a Friday evening.

Then, for Saturday, Sunday and Monday morning everyone has set an intention AND put a plan in place to come into presence at the beginning of each day.

We provide plenty of options for shifting into your present state of mind in the morning, of course.

And we plan ahead to practice for three mornings in a row.

By Monday morning you're feeling ready for the week.

You've also created the beginning of a habit — if you stuck with it.

If you want to ever change something in your life, setting an intention for three days in a row — something very achievable, but also incredibly meaningful — is a powerful act.

Let's come into presence together now.

Take another long deep breath.

All your attention focused right here with me.

Let's just listen together while noticing how your body feels as you listen to the world going by for the next 30 seconds or so.

Listen to live.

Feel your body.

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Can you feel your body relaxing into the world, relaxing as one with the world, as you just listen to life going by?

Listen to yourself as part of life going by.

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Good start.

I cordially invite you to join us for a Weekend Recharge event sometime btw.

Until then, set the intention yourself for coming into this weekend to make sure you make the most of this weekend — to optimally recharge for your week.

Often times that means taking a break from your primary work — to allow yourself to recharge.

You can focus on a different aspect of your life work if you need to work this weekend.

But know that your life’s work is best accomplished in presence.

So maybe shift your focus to a more creative aspect of your work, or maybe do more exercise.

However your life fits together best, bring presence to it.

Commit to coming into presence at the beginning of the day for three days in a row — and see how that feels for you.

Let’s set that intention now, whatever day it is for you…

For the next three days, I’m going to come into presence first thing.

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Good.

Now, let’s use the next couple minutes to be very intentional about fully recognizing ourselves as aspects of life unfolding.

There are many ways that you can recognize the miracle that you are — and that you are also aspect of.

* You are hurtling through space and time at millions of miles per hour and you don't even perceive it, (1.3 million mph or 2.8 million mph depending who you ask).

* Your body is trillions of cells that function completely outside your control to enable you to be an experiencing entity in this miracle hurtling through of space and time.

* You can also choose how you experience whatever you perceive — to produce your experience of life.

For me, those ways of thinking about the miracle of life bring me into presence.

Take a minute now to connect with your version of how you fit into the miracle of life — and notice how you’re an aspect of the miracle of life for the next minute or so.

Just listen again, and connect to your deepest truths, and feel yourself coming into the present moment.

Then, carry that intention of staying present through the day. I'll remind you of that part again at the end.

For now, just connect to your deepest truth and come fully into presence by listening to life.

Ready?

Go.

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Bring the miracle of life into your body — into your awareness.

And listen.

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Perfect.

Do you feel a difference?

Keep that intention to stay present to your awareness of yourself as an aspect of life's unfolding miracle for the rest of your day.

Be present to every moment.

Be present to every context.

Be present for yourself.

Be present for your people.

Be present for your work.

Be present for your weekend!

One more time, let’s reset our intention to be fully present for three mornings in a row this weekend.

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Feel that?

Is your intention set?

Nice.

Enjoy your life.

Enjoy your weekend!

All right, have a good one

Stay present.

I’ll talk to you soon.

Sean

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Hope you had a good weekend!

Let’s take a long deep breath.

OnePerfect Shift on Monday morning.

Holy moly, let's get after this.

Here we go.

This is what we’re here for, right?

Our work. Our work.

If you have a typical workweek that starts Monday morning, the idea right now is let's get connected to our purpose…

Why we do what we do.

Maybe you do what you do because what you do is the clearest expression of presence flowing through you that you can imagine — whatever your Monday morning activity is, that is. 

Or, maybe you're in your role as a step towards the clearest expression of presence flowing through you that you can imagine.

If it's not one of those two, then maybe you should think about listening to presence flowing through you as we go here — and consider how you can take a step in your life toward at least feeling like you are on the path towards the free flow of presence, and purpose, into the world.

Whatever category you're in right now, you can take the same step on a Monday morning to get yourself into flow to start the week…

Come fully into this moment.

Let's do that together.

All of our attention right here.

Allow your shoulders to relax.

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I'm going to pull my shoulders back a little bit after I relax them. 

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We're getting into the right state of mind and body to get after it this week.

Allow your arms to relax. 

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Your whole body should be relaxed. 

Place all your attention, 100% of your attention, right here.

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Listen.

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Be in your environment.

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Allow presence to flow unobstructed and unresisted through you. 

Feel it. 

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Feel the buzzing of your body now.

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Just keep breathing deeply.

Notice that tingling sensation of your alive body.  

All your cells coming together, tingling with presence to express truth through you.

Feel that?

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You're an embodiment of truth in form. 

Ever-changing every moment.

Aligned with the intention of that truth — your purpose.

Another long, deep breath.

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Let's set an intention together to have an incredible, an incredible week.

Set that intention — A week of presence flowing through you.

You got it?

Alright, let's listen to life for 30 seconds, and then we'll get rolling.

Ready? 

Go.

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Staying fully present.

If your mind wanders, just bring it back to your intention to allow presence to flow through you. 

100% of your attention right here.

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Perfect. 

Another 10 seconds.

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Nice.

As we tie our Shift up, set that intention to stay present throughout the day.

All right. 

Great job. 

Stay present and have an incredible week.

Sean

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Hello! I’m sharing one of our most popular Shifts today.

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Let’s shift into confidence.

I’m recording in a busy park today.

Please bear with the background sounds (if you’re listening).

It will be worth it.

This truly is so simple and straightforward.

First of all, a lot of lack of confidence comes from some form of doubt about yourself.

You think that you're kind of being a fraud somehow.

But that's just this feeling that people get because we can't possibly know everything. 

We know that we have to make a lot of assumptions in life just to get by — and we know we don't know everything. 

Those factors (and others) can create a sense of uncertainty, potentially…. 

Until you remember that you’re a living miracle — you’re a perfect specimen. 

The way to come into physical, bodily, state awareness of that fact is to come into presence strategically. 

The way you do that — especially when it's about confidence — is to focus all your attention on listening.

I know what you may be thinking…

What about if I'm speaking?

Why am I focusing all my attention on listening? 

Therein lies the magic of this suggestion. 

Put 100% of your attention into listening to your voice as you speak, and take deep breaths anytime you need to — people respect your deep breaths.

Deep breaths are a sign of somebody who is taking sincerely what they're talking to you about. 

They're being authentic.

They care.

They're taking their time.

So, whenever you need to take a little bit of emotional recharge, take a deep breath.

Then, continue to assert your intention to listen with all your attention — whether you’re speaking, or someone is speaking to you, or there is silence between the words.

Remember, there's silence constantly, even when you're speaking.

When you come into that space of listening, you are authenticity.

You are confidence.

Confidence and authenticity are massively overlapping.

So let's practice right now. 

Take a long deep breath. 

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By the way, this is one of the reasons why in the OnePerfect Shift app (iOS | Android | Enterprise) you are able to record your own insights anytime.

You're always one tap away from being able to record your voice, because speaking your truth out loud, and listening to it, and hearing it, are all components of bringing yourself into authenticity. 

When you're in that place, life is good. 

You're having far fewer doubts and questions about yourself being good enough, or your ability to meet the fears and challenges that you encounter.

You realize you're 100% worthy.

So let's listen to life in silence together for a minute. 

Then, we'll finish up with one more thing.

Ready?

Listen.

(If you’re listening to the audio right now, close your eyes and listen to life with 100% of your attention for a while.

If you’re only reading this post, just listen to life in silence for as long as you choose, before you continue reading.)

Just listen.

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Keep listening. 

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It's a practice in confidence. 

It's a practice in authenticity.

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Be totally intentional about your relationship to life — your willingness to listen to life.

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Perfect. 

Now, I suggest you do a couple reps inside your mind's eye of seeing yourself succeeding in whatever it is that you're about to go do next. 

See yourself succeeding while knowing that people genuinely want you to succeed.

That's what the people who matter to you want for you (i.e., the people who should matter to you — the people who care about you).

They want you to succeed. 

So, know that you are supported. 

You are loved.

And no matter what, there’s always tomorrow. 

So just be yourself.

Be authentic. 

Be confident. 

See yourself succeeding now in your mind's eye.

Feel that feeling of success in your body.

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Perfect landing every time.

Nice.

Alright, have a great day.

Sean

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Let's start with a small shift.

Set an intention to shift into a more ideal state of mind over the next few minutes.

Let's do that together.

To set that intention really make your mind go there by saying to yourself:

“I'm going to shift from where I am right now to a better place over the next few minutes.”

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Is your intention to shift clearly set?

Okay, good.

Now, take a long deep breath.

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Nice.

Okay so you're annoyed with someone.

This is painful.

Interpersonal difficulty is painful. 

Interpersonal difficulty often has the effect of reducing our connection to what's most important to us.

The associated emotions that come along with feeling annoyed with someone often produce a temporarily myopic point of view which translates into an unwanted mind state.

Right? 

Being annoyed can disconnect you from the more deeply held beliefs that you’re usually more in touch with. 

That’s why now is the moment when you’re most in need of a Shift — a quick reminder that reinvigorates your connection to what every spiritual tradition tells you… 

Life is a miracle. 

Your life is a miracle.

Your journey through life is an aspect of that miracle.

Your spiritual journey is about navigating through your miracle.

The inner journey that's occurring within you is part of the miracle. 

Difficult moments along your path are opportunities offered by the miracle to step forward on your path with integrity in this moment. 

So… this moment of being annoyed with someone is an opportunity to come back into touch with what you know is most true in your life.

So, what's most true to you?

What's most important to you in life?

Let's lean into your truth — whatever you believe. 

Take 10 seconds to think about that question and notice what comes to mind. 

What's most true and important to you? 

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Be fully in the present moment by placing 100% of your attention to just listening to yourself.

Listen to your thoughts for the answer to the question…

What's most important to you?

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Okay, good.

Whatever you came up with, good start.

Let's keep going slowly. 

Take another deep breath.

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Release the tension in your body by relaxing your neck. 

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Allow your shoulders and your arms to fall toward the ground too.

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Allow your hands, your arms, to relax completely.

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How about another question?

How do you want to remember yourself when you're looking back on your journey tomorrow — or when you look back from the end of your journey?

Do you want to feel proud?

Impressed?

At peace?

Picture what you want to feel like right now. 

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How do you want to feel looking back?

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Bring that vision into a feeling state in your body now.

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If you were most satisfied looking back on your life, how would you feel?

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Got your answer?

Good.

Now ask yourself…

How would that feeling inside you — that answer to what feeling proud of your life would look and feel like — how does that feeling and answer inform how you want to deal with the interpersonal struggle that you're going through today?

Take a few seconds considering that question in silence. 

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Observe how answering that question impacts how you feel — and how you want to cope — now that you're more connected to what's important to you.

Doing that will give you some space from any annoyance you’re feeling.

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Any ideas about how you might deal differently with your annoyance?

How are you going to cope so that you respect your own decision?

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Do you feel any better, knowing that answer? 

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How do you feel now?

How's your mind and body state right now?

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Well, stay present.

Always reconnect to what's important to you — especially if the annoyance starts to return today.

Okay, have a great day.

Talk to you soon.

Sean

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The app also tracks your progress and has lots of targeted multimedia Shifts and programs.

Over 95% of surveyed app users report being able to shift effectively in 5-10 minutes.

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Hello, hello! How are you?

I'm looking forward to the next several minutes with you. 

A question frequently raised is, ‘What is presence?’

Presence is an experience. 

Let's have that experience together. 

Notice how you're feeling right now. 

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Now, dedicate all your attention for the next few minutes to coming into complete presence with me.  

Let’s have the experience that emerges when 100% of your attention is focused in the present moment.

Doing that translates into an incredible feeling — presence, aliveness, connection, peace.

Freedom from fear. 

So take a deep breath in.

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And out.

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Settle into this moment with me. 

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Listen to life with 100% of your attention.

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Now, invite all your attention to observing this moment, wherever you are. 

Feel all the sensations.

Notice your body pressing against whatever you're pressing against — a seat, the ground, a bed.

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Feel every sensation.

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Release any stories that are buzzing through your mind. 

Maybe 10% of your attention is focused on the past or thinking about the future.

But right now, bring all your attention, 100% right here.

Listening.

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Being.

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Feeling.

And knowing, that by returning your attention to the present moment, you're strengthening your ability to shift into presence anytime you choose throughout your day.

Notice how you feel right now, and just mark it.

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Notice how life is when you’re fully present. 

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Good.

Let's set an intention to sink deeper into presence now. 

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Can you feel your intention being set?

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For 20 seconds or so, just look around your environment slowly.

Notice details.

Move your visual field around your environment. 

Stop and study objects if they appeal to you. 

Ready?

Go.

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Beautiful. 

Keep looking.  

Study your environment.

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You are deepening your presence.

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Good.

Coming into presence allows you to focus your attention wherever you want to focus it next. 

So let's shift our attention again.

Now that we're more present we can more easily notice that silent, tingling of our bodies.

Focus all your attention on any party your body now. 

Start by squeezing your left thumb hard and then releasing it.

Then, feel all the blood rushing into your thumb.

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Again, squeeze your thumb hard for a few seconds, and then release your thumb and feel the tingling. 

Can you feel it? 

Good. 

Focus on that sensation.

Focus on that silent buzzing of your body, the buzzing of life into your body. 

And now, notice it pulsating through your whole body at once. 

Feel life energy flowing through your body, producing your experience of life in this moment. 

Full presence in your body. 

You can close your eyes if you want to.

Just settle in.

Let's do that for a little, short while together.

Close your eyes.

All your attention in your body. 

Feeling that buzzing, that tingling aliveness.

Ready?

Go. 

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Feel the buzzing of your body. 

Your life flowing into form each moment. 

Feel that? 

That's presence. 

Can you notice a shift in how your mind and body feel compared to just a few minutes ago?

The more you practice, the more contact you'll have with that creative peace that's buzzing through you all the time. 

Buzzing through you, into your life, as your life, each moment. 

So live presently.

Have an incredible day.

Sean

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Let's take a long deep breath.

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Allow your shoulders to fall toward the ground.

If you have something behind your neck, allow your head to fall backwards slightly. 

Just relax completely.

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Come into this moment. 

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100% of our attention, right here.

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Let’s just recognize that life is not easy. 

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It's not always easy for anyone.

Please know that, if you're struggling.

All of us have ups and downs. 

When we're down, we have a hard time finding our way back up sometimes. 

That's just because we forget that there's a pathway there.

Maybe we need to practice a little bit to find our way back up consistently.

The first step is recognizing there's a pathway, and the second is traveling it.

Identifying what that pathway is for yourself is a part of your journey.

But there are some principles, some basics of full attention in the present moment, that allow you to find your way to your right place — back to peace, and to feeling like you're able to take that next step in your journey — to feeling like it's not too hard. 

It's doable.

Know that you're not alone.

One way to do it is to take a deep breath.

Come into this moment.

100% of your attention here. 

Place all your attention in your body. 

Just feeling your body buzz for a little while. 

The genius of you.

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Whether you feel like you love your body, or you don't love your body, if you keep going into your body you'll recognize that there's a buzzing genius within.

There is a genius that buzzes trillions and trillions of cells that connect in trillions of ways every second, to produce your experience of life — to produce you.

When you see that, you see how connected you are to the entire environment around you.

The breath that comes into your oxygen.

The nature that surrounds you.

The chair that you're sitting on.

And me, and everyone else. 

We all share the miracle. 

We all buzz at one on some level.

So find that space inside you — where you’re buzzing as one with life.

Feel the buzz.

Let's feel the buzz for 30 seconds.

And then we'll try something.

All your attention — feeling your body.

Close your eyes anytime you want to.

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Mmm, it feels so good.

Now let’s release our intention to focus on the body, and just be. 

Release the intention to have any intention for a while, and allow yourself to be with me.

No intention. 

Just be.

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Are you being?

Come into being. 

Let everything go.

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And now, listen from a place of full presence to hear the next step on your journey.

See what's next for you.

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Perfect.

Have an incredible day.

Sean

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Hello there! Hope you’re doing well.

Let's set an intention together to make a shift into a different state of mind.

We’ll take a deep dive into our inner worlds to honor our practice of being intentional about coming deeply into presence, at least once for the day.

It doesn’t need to take a long time to do that.

It’s so valuable.

We'll do it today by shifting into a breakthrough.

I discovered years ago in my own shifting practice, and then while working with people to get their own practice going, that a real breakthrough in your practice — and in your life actually — comes when you're able to shift intentionally between your thinking mind and your watching and listening mind. 

Your ‘thinking mind’ to your ‘listening mind.’ 

When you can do that reliably it means that you clearly know the felt difference — the difference in how it feels to you — between those two states of consciousness. 

So let's experience this breakthrough intentionally together right now.

Take a deep breath.

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Relax.

Settle into your space.

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Focus 100% of your attention — invite all your focus into the present moment, into the space you're sitting.

Get all your senses attuned to right here and right now.

Let everything go.

Let go of any thoughts that you brought with you, or any thoughts about the future, just let them go for a few minutes here.

Close your eyes if you want.

And listen inside your inner world.

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See if you can notice any thoughts that are popping through now.

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What thought is occurring in your mind right now when you just listen?

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When I’m speaking, you may be processing the words I speak. 

And meanwhile, you're also likely thinking about something — maybe peripherally related, or even completely unrelated to these words.

Can you identify any thought that you're processing?

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Noticing your ‘thinking state of mind’ (as we are doing) is a great way to start coming into a ‘listening state of mind.’

Let’s do that.

Close your eyes now, if you haven’t already.

See if you can notice ongoing thoughts produced by your thinking mind for the next 20 seconds or so.

When you notice a thought, don't get carried away by the thought.

Observe the thought.

Allow it to flow through your mind. 

Allow it to leave your mind.

Then, just return to the intention of noticing your next thought.

Ready?

Go.

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Good.

Did you notice any thoughts arising in your mind — in your inner world?

I'm sure you did.

Now we're going to make our shift.

Set an intention to shift away from your thinking mind that you were observing, and completely into your non-thinking mind over the next couple minutes. 

Shift away from your thinking mind and into your non-thinking mind. 

Making that shift entails being committed to letting go of your thoughts completely for a while.

Don't worry, they'll be there when you return.

They always are.

But for now, just be committed to allowing your thoughts to fade out of the foreground of your awareness for a little while.

Let's set a clear intention to let thoughts go for 20 seconds. 

Drop below thinking into complete inner silence.

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Just listening.

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Just being.

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Dropping into complete silence now.

Complete inner silence.

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Listen to life.

Listen as life.

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Perfect.

Did you experience a few seconds of pure silence — pure listening mind?

Can you feel that difference between being occupied by your thinking mind, versus how it feels to become your watching mind, your listening mind, your silence?

That's the breakthrough you want to focus on.

Notice which state you're in at each moment.

When you can move back and forth intentionally, you've had your breakthrough.

You'll come to more clearly identify and feel that difference as you practice shifting more — the difference between your thinking mind and your listening mind.

Being able to make that intentional shift when you want to is the most important skill you can develop.

Once you’re in your listening mind you can move your attention into anything you want to just by resetting your intention.

So, what do you want to do next?

You’ve refilled from a place of stillness, a place of silence, a place of listening to life as life.

Now, set your next intention focused on whatever is up next for you today.

So what is next for you today?

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Set that intention to shift towards whatever is next for you now.

Can you feel your intention being set inside you?

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It can help to actually see the next part of your day in your mind’s eye.

See yourself fully present, embodying your next intention for today.

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Got it?

Good! 

Have an incredible day.

Stay present,

Sean

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