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VIDEO: Being present expands time!

Jan Normanton • Jun 15, 2022

Never feel you have enough time? Constantly chasing your tale, clock watching and trying even to beat the clock?

 

Living this way creates fear and stress in the body. Fear of not having enough (time). This is scarcity mentality that leaves us in lack over and over.


If we feel we don’t have enough time now, we will never have enough time. It is a mental perception that might benefit from a reframe.


When we scatter our energy trying to achieve everything at once including attempting to multitask, we exhaust ourselves in the process. The stress created is exhausting in and of itself, never mind trying to spin many plates at once.


I attended a speed awareness course recently (yes the irony doesn’t escape me!), and discovered how driving over the speed limit gains us mere moments and yet the price to pay in terms of stress and exhaustion is monumental and really not worth the limited gain of a few minutes.


Peace of mind is everything. We are surrounded by stress and cannot avoid it. We can however choose how we respond to stress, including reviewing our ‘relationship’ with time. The ‘to do’ list will always be there. Sure we have deadlines and most probably always meet them.


How about coming fully into the present tense by focusing on exactly what we have to do in the here and now and just that. How about we choose to decide that we do in fact have enough time. The more present we can be, the less stressed we can be and therefore the more ease we have in our body.


As we breathe deeply and settle into the present moment and expand both our awareness of the here and now as well as the space within our body, we can literally expand the moment.



We can get to enjoy the moment too – I hope you can find the time to enjoy this little video!

VIDEO: We get to choose - either a vicious cycle of stress or a virtuous circle of peace

By Jan Normanton • 16 Nov, 2023
Can you cultivate a rest state within by staying present, focusing on what is, noticing the difference between the stressful internal chatter and the actual state of your present peaceful reality. Come into presence and get anchored in the here and now, within the body. The mind takes us away from our body and truth – that all we have really is the here and now.  We get to choose - either a vicious cycle of stress or a virtuous circle of peace.

VIDEO: Imagine Life without Procrastination, Rumination and Catastrophisation!

By Jan Normanton • 16 Nov, 2023
For me, the only true way to leave that monkey mind, to leave the procrastination, the rumination, the catastrophization of our mind is to come into the body. This is my truth, when I come home to myself and drop into my body; this is the fact of the matter - right now I am ensconced in nature, I can hear the babbling brook, I can feel the beautiful warm air on my skin, I feel expansive, free, liberated; I’m moving my body and I feel well. I’m breathing deeply, oxygenating my whole body with freshly oxygenated, nutrient-rich blood and getting out of breath. I feel fantastic. That is my truth in the here and now.  If I choose to stay in my mind, I can get very stressed and generate an entire stress state in my body. When I choose to drop into the body and stay present with what it is, my truth at this very moment, I get to experience something wonderful.

VIDEO: How do you remain embodied and cease the self abandonment?

By Jan Normanton • 12 Nov, 2023
There are so many ways we self abandon. And one way to stop ourselves from doing this is to commit to self care with our time, intention, attunement, focus. In this way we replenish ourselves, fill our boots in whatever way moves us, inspires us, enables us to feel alive! Embodiment is to be at home in the body, to stay true to ourselves versus self abandonment.  In remaining embodied, we are present to what is, to life in that very moment, rather than drifting off into the future or past. It is here that we can fully and completely experience life, tuning into all our senses and feeling every sensation. I find myself in nature, immersed in nature. Over and over again. I come home to myself. How do you remain embodied and cease the self abandonment?

VIDEO: Is this serving me?

By Jan Normanton • 07 Nov, 2023
This season I’m letting go; letting go of thoughts, mindsets, beliefs that no longer serve me. I’m decluttering, clearing out – physically, mentally, emotionally, energetically and spiritually. Creating space, for expansion, for allowing new beliefs, mindsets, thoughts and new feelings come in.  I’m clearing the decks and every day I ask the question “is this serving me?” - is this thought, this mindset serving me, and if the answer is no, I let it go - with grace, with love, with compassion and I create expansion in my body, space in my mind; I create and grow and nurture resilience to support me to go forth.

VIDEO: There is enough time!

By Jan Normanton • 02 Nov, 2023
There is enough time! Try this as a mantra to yourself to soothe your nervous system and return to steady state.  This together with belly breathing and extending the exhalation is a quick, easy way to get out of the stress state and into the rest state.

VIDEO: Our mind can be our best friend or our worst enemy!

By Jan Normanton • 31 Oct, 2023
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VIDEO: Anchor into your body - to find your refuge, safety and wellbeing

By Jan Normanton • 26 Oct, 2023
How safe and soothed do you feel in your mind right now? Ask the question about your body. How safe and soothed do you feel in your body right now? You might notice a vast difference. Notice how the mind takes us away from the present tense and your place of safety, with its constant chatter and disappearing into the past or future, into the dramas of daily life. Drop into that safe space of your body in the here and now instead.  Anchor into your body - to find your refuge, safety, wellbeing.

VIDEO: our thoughts drive our physiology and our physiology drives our thoughts

By Jan Normanton • 24 Oct, 2023
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VIDEO: Mindful Moments - the Elixir of Life!

By Jan Normanton • 19 Oct, 2023
MINDFUL MOMENTS….How many of these do you allow yourself in your day? A chance to come into presence. To notice your surroundings. To notice yourself. How do you feel. Can you come into presence and connect through your senses to the here and now and to yourself. Can you take some slow deep inhalations and longer exhalations. Then notice how you might feel differently now. I so hope you feel better for and coming into your present reality and for returning to your true self. 

VIDEO: Stay close to yourself and the present for greater agency

By Jan Normanton • 17 Oct, 2023
By choosing to come into my body and the present moment, I get to nourish and nurture myself and replenish my spirit. In doing so my resilience increases so that, as and when challenges arise, I am better placed to deal with them. I generate a better foundation for my future self in choosing to stay close to myself and be present.
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