How do you Savor the Moment?
Savor the moment. Be grateful, and excited, and enjoy it, here and now.
As you are reading this my annual vacation is drawing to an end. I have been enjoying a week of rest and relaxation with friends and chosen family, unwinding and de-stressing. Fun, good company, and an opportunity to hit the reset button.
Rather than become bummed out that my vacation is over, though, I am going to savor the moment. From there, I am going to take the positive energy it has generated, and use that as I re-enter my life.
There are some cool things coming down the line for me. I am very excited about a number of them. Plans are afoot to begin podcasting, and there are some other new things in the works that I am having a lot of fun creating.
I know a lot of people who get a bit bummed about the end of their vacations. I, however, am stoked that I have had this time off, and because of it will be able to return to my regularly scheduled life with new vigor, new energies.
This is a choice. I am choosing to see this for the moment of excitement it represents. This is a decision on my part to look at the good that has come from the now, and use that to manifest an exciting future.
Consciousness creates reality. Leave vacation bummed out, I will certainly discover new ways to bum myself out further. But if I choose instead to take that rest and relaxation and use it as revitalization, I am going to be able to do a lot more with it.
Looking ahead with apprehension versus anticipation makes a real difference in the possible outcome.
Savor the moment, and hold onto that awareness
How am I feeling right now? Am I content, rested, relaxed, feeling renewed? If so, it is in my best interest to retain that, so I can create even more.
If I am feeling anxious, unhappy, and starting to stress in anticipation of the end of my vacation, what message does that send out to The Universe? I do not believe it’s a very positive one.
Like attracts like. What we think about, feel, and take intentional actions towards we can manifest. When we think about a thing, but then let our subconscious take over the driving, we should be less than surprised when we hit the guardrail, rather than stay between the lines on the highway.
It is all too easy to get stuck either looking back at the past, or ahead to the future. The past can make us wistful, and all-too-often nostalgic for the rose-colored memory, which is seldom the reality. On the other side of the same coin, the future can be either super-exciting, or a cause of anxiety as we anticipate what is coming down the line.
It is for this reason that we need to spend more time just being. When we are in the here-and-now, we can remain better focused, and more capable of finding and holding balance. Right here and now we just are.
When we are aware, we have no worries or fears dominating our emotions. We can be in total neutral, neither depressed nor anxious, breathing. From this place we can do anything.
Savor the moment, wherever it finds you
It’s too easy to get distracted, or caught up in other happenings. We remember this or consider that, and instead of enjoying what we have here-and-now, we lose sight of it for past or future.
When we neglect to savor the moment, we lose out on knowing our world and ourselves better. Rather than attaching thoughts that can take out to other places, when we are aware, here and now, it can be amazing. There are new discoveries to be found, and we might find that we are open to more than we normally realize.
I am grateful and excited for this moment. Yes, the future is something I am looking ahead to not with anxiety, but excitement…but in this very moment, I am simply glad to be alive.
It is my hope that you take time to savor the moment, and experience life for all its amazing, endless, incredible possibility.
As always, thank you for crossing the bridges between my worlds with me.
This is the ninety-eighth entry of my personal journey, the Crossing the Bridges series. My collectively published writing can be found here.
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