It's Hard to Feel Anxious or Depressed When You ARE Love

I used to. Well, before COVID we had a lot of big events, right? Yeah. And one of the most profound things that happened for me for a long time. I. I would volunteer at these big events with hundreds of people and a lot of that old anxiety would come up, you know, that, you know, it. This, this was years and years ago. And while I was still sort of on this path of practicing and I learned that if I walked into that ballroom where I was serving and I kept my attention on be love, like as a verb, you know, be love in action, that what it did was it not only took off that awkward self consciousness that I had going on for me, but that just like your question just asked, that I was really able to support other people. I could. Suddenly when I was sort of like in that place of like, I'm going to like, action, verb, be love. I felt like I had some superpower to be able to like see people. Like honest to goodness, it sounds woo woo, but even just how I'm looking at you now, it's like there's just a light around you. Like I can see, I just see the, the goodness in, in people. And it's not me doing that. I really just think it's presence. I think this is what life. It's really my belief that life, life is good and life sees the goodness in everybody. And I feel like that when I was present and out of my own head, ego right then I was able to really be there with people and I could hear what they were saying. Right. I wasn't, it wasn't all like clouded by my own insecurities or thoughts. And I. To me, I think that's one of the most important things that has come from this work is really being able to truly be present with people.