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4 min read Presence

You don't have to stop planning

Being present does *not* mean stopping planning. That's more mind-talk 🙄

You don't have to stop planning
What d'you mean the tap no longer works?! (All is revealed, below.)

Of all the reasons people hold back on properly exploring the Innate Health understanding and properly relaxing back into the flow of life, I think it’s planning.

Boy, do we love to plan!

I love to plan too, I get it. The thing is, minds get pointed in the direction I’m pointing in, they hear things like this:

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Key Message: Your felt experience of life is only ever happening NOW

…and they conclude,

📦🗣️ “Oh, that means I can’t plan. I have to just live Now, because that’s all there is. Oh dear. That doesn’t sound like much fun. I don’t want to do that. Right… where’s the Unsubscribe button?”

Yeah? Ring any bells?

(It's at the bottom of every email, for the record.)

The MECHANICS of ‘presence’

This is just what minds do: Create a belief about how something is, then look for evidence to support it, so it gets properly embedded 🙄

‘Presence’, for want of a better word, is something that the mind likes to think it’s got a pretty good handle on (I wrote about that here, in this previous Very Good Daily Reminder™)

And the belief it so often holds, is that one, above: