It’s where your feet are

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You spend an extraordinary amount of time everywhere except exactly where you are.

Your mind replays conversations from years ago, rehearses arguments that may never happen, and sprints ahead to a future that doesn’t yet exist. You re-live fears from your past and project your fears in the future.

Meanwhile, life, the real, tangible, breathing experience of it, is happening quietly beneath your feet.

“It is where your feet are.”

Stephen Lesavich, PhD

That’s why the phrase “it’s where your feet are” carries so much wisdom.

Elsewhere is an Illusion

Modern life encourages distraction. Notifications pull your attention outward. Expectations push you forward. Regret tug you backward. You live suspended between deadlines and memories, believing peace exists somewhere later, after the next achievement, the next purchase, the next version of yourself.

Peace doesn’t live in elsewhere. It lives right here.

Peace lives right where your feet are touching the ground right now.

Why Your Feet in the Present Moment Is Always Enough

Living in the now doesn’t mean ignoring the future or denying the past. It means recognizing that the only place you can do anything about either is here in the present moment where your feet are.

You heal the past by meeting it with compassion, where your feet are right now.
You shape the future through choices made, where your feet are right now.

When you stop trying to live in the past or the future, something unexpected happens, you become more effective, more peaceful, more yourself and more true to yourself.

The present moment is where your feet are and where clarity lives.

It’s where your intuition lives.
It’s where your appreciation lives.
It’s where your love lives.

The Grounding Power of Now With Your Own Feet

Anytime you are feeling, anxious, nervous, overwhelmed, look at your feet.

That will ground you into the present moment.

Your feet don’t exist in the past or the future. They are always here. Always in the now.

When you bring your awareness to where your feet are, whether that’s planted on a living room floor at home, resting on cool grass outside, in the ocean, walking along a familiar sidewalk, at work, use your feet to anchor yourself in the present moment.

There is strength in staying in the present moment where your feet are.

There is strength in not rushing away from this moment just because it’s imperfect or uncomfortable.

Growth doesn’t happen by escaping your life; it happens by experiencing it, exactly where your feet are.

How can you keep yourself where your feet are and live in the present moment?

Consider these practice tips.

Practice Tips for staying in the now where your feet are:

1. Technique One – Ask yourself questions such as:

• Where are my feet?
• Is all of the rest of me actually here with my feet in the now?
• Am I thinking about the past?
• Am I thinking about the future?

2. Technique Two – Use your Breath:

• Pause all your activities.
• Take three slow breaths exactly where you inhale slowly and exhale slowly.
• Feel your feet and wiggle your toes.
• Name three things you can see right now in front of you?

3. Technique Three – Use Your Senses and Emotions:

• Make yourself aware of your feet, feel and wiggle your toes.
• Ask yourself, what is my first sense, my intuition telling me, right now?
• Ask yourself, what are my other five senses telling me; what am I seeing, hearing, touching, smell and tasting, right now?
• Ask yourself, what am I feeling right now?

Life isn’t happening in the memory of yesterday or the promise of tomorrow.

It’s happening right now, in the present moment, where your feet are.

Showing up fully in the present moment, where your feet are, allows you to create many positive impact in your own life because it is where your influence is.

Out There on the Edge of Everything®…

Stephen Lesavich, PhD

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Certified solution-focused life coach and experienced business coach.

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