When your kid needs picking up or your phone buzzes, staying present feels impossible. One practice that works: gratitude. It yanks your attention back to now faster than anything else, even when life keeps throwing things at you.
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here, my daughter wants to go there, I feel sick. How do I stay present in all of that? Like, oh, it's like you just— like, life is happening. And it feels like I always— like, I've always played with this. And it's so nice if you can be present in a yoga class or on a nice walk on the beach or something. But how do we be present in the day-to-day ugliness of real 3D life? And I think that's the dance we're going to take together. The ins, the outs, the triggers, the how do you pull yourself back. So I did a video the other day, and because I've been playing with this, how do you, um— see, look, a notification just came up from my daughter saying, can you pick me up? Um, so yes, I'll get to her later, but because I want to be present with this right now, and the pickup time is in the future, so that actually doesn't exist right now. Only me and you right now exists. So I've been playing with using gratitude as a shortcut