How to Enjoy Right Now

Girlfriends (A Podcast for Catholic Women)

Danielle Bean

Kids & Family, Parenting, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 810 Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

This week we are talking about the joy and peace to be found in being fully present in the HERE AND NOW. Mindfulness is kind of a buzzword these days, but what does it really mean? How can we practice being focused on the present moment when there is so much about the past that haunts us and so much about the future that causes us to worry? Well, Jesus reminded us, "Do not worry about tomorrow; tomorrow will take care of itself. Sufficient for a day is its own evil." (Matthew 6:34) How can we do that, though? It's so hard sometimes. We share these three thoughts that can help: 1) STOP. Build breaks into your day and give yourself moments where you can just BE and know that it is enough. 2) Pay attention to your thoughts. Get in the habit of noticing when your thoughts leave the present moment and train yourself to keep reining them back in. 3) Pay attention to noise. What kind of "noise" do you allow in your life on a regular basis? TV, radio, social media, stress from news? Look for ways to insert more quiet and limit those kinds of "noise" that you can control. 4) Redirect your thoughts. Get in the habit of noticing when you think too much about the past or the future, and practice focusing on the present, even inside of your spiritual life and what you pray for. 5) Look for examples. Do you know someone who is good at living in the moment? A friend or a child or a pet? Watch and learn!

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0:00.0	There are parts, and then there are B-Pro Auto Parts.
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0:11.0	Parts that are refining how we drive and redefining the category.
0:15.0	Because every vehicle is a sum of its parts.
0:18.0	So do yourself a favor and put B-Pro Auto Parts on the vehicles you service.
0:23.3	Parts now, parts into the future.
0:26.2	Welcome to the new aftermarket.
0:32.0	Girlfriends, episode number 100.
0:34.7	How to enjoy right now.
0:48.9	Yeah. number 100. How to enjoy right now. Hello and welcome to girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom,
0:53.5	and I'm on a mission to help you know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance,
0:55.0	and joy in family living.
0:59.7	This week, we're talking about how to live peacefully in the present moment, even if it kills us. And I can't wait to get started on this important topic. Let's get going.
1:09.0	Hey, girlfriends, how are you? Hope your Advent is going great. I hope you're busy in a pleasant way and not too stressed out. As we've been talking about in recent episodes, ways to blissfully glide through Advent. I would love to report that I am blissfully gliding through Advent, but I'm doing all right.
1:29.1	I'm doing okay.
1:30.4	Still haven't done a whole lot of shopping.
1:33.5	That's, I've been distracted by a lot of things going on.
1:36.8	I've got stuff going on with my work life right now that big changes, big things happening.
1:42.1	And I'm looking forward to sharing those with you as soon as I'm
1:44.6	able to, probably in the new year. But I've got stuff on the back burners and it feels like it's
1:49.5	hard to switch my thoughts to preparing for Christmas and also at the same time maintaining that
1:55.6	blissful, peaceful, advent mentality that we're supposed to be joyfully waiting for our Savior, right? Well,
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