Friday Shift

Hello, Hello. How are you?

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

Photo by Brett Jordan on Unsplash

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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.

Photo by he zhu on Unsplash

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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.

Photo by Lawrence Hookham on Unsplash

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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.

How Can I Improve My Mental Health as a Work-from-home Professional?

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