In the moment code#

If you’re breathing, you’re alive and therefore have one thing to be grateful for. Tolle explains in his book that when you’re focusing on “the NOW” you have peace because in that split second, if you’re thinking, you’re breathing. Rather, it’s how you observe your inner self at any given moment in time. Present moment awareness isn’t something you do or don’t do. It’s not entirely self-serving, in an external sense.Īnd it’s not hedonism (acting on whatever feels pleasurable or brings happiness). Living in “the NOW” as it’s called in Eckhart Tolle’s famed book “ The Power of NOW: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment,” is not impulsivity (acting on the moment). Singer-songwriter, producer, actress, author, and poet Jewel prefers to refer to it as “conscious presence.”

The authors observed that to enhance the benefit for the brain, emotions, stress, and health - getting closer to the monitored experience and accepting it - steers people away from negative emotional responses to stimuli.ĭuring a recent Healthline Media Town Hall event, several celebrities explained their approaches to mindfulness and to meditation as a tool for it.

In the moment code#

Researchers mention that the access code for mindfulness is your acceptance. It’s a skill of shifting your focus from the to-dos and all the feels to lesser used senses of what you see before you or touch for utilitarian purposes.Ī study picked up by the National Institutes of Health defined mindfulness as the ongoing “I-spy” of present moment occurrences - internally and externally. Tasks, emotions, and ruminations are all not invited to this party of one. Present moment awareness is simply a stillness in thought, and external stimuli, to fully observe the here and now.