Life Question of the Week: 1.23.26
Take Back Your Mind
Michael B. Beckwith
5.0 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 23 January 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Today, our first letter comes from Emanuela in the Netherlands: Emanuela experiences deep presence and awareness in meditation—but once back in daily life, presence can feel forced, dull, overwhelming, or emotionally intense. She asks how to understand these different states of awareness and integrate true presence into everyday life in a grounded, functional way.
Our next letter comes from a "Mom in need of advice to inspire": Watching her son lose confidence in a harsh, ego-driven sports environment, this mom asks how to protect his mental and spiritual well-being without extinguishing his dreams. She wants guidance on helping him stay inspired, resilient, and rooted in his worth despite unhealthy coaching.
Finally, Michael leads a meditation on coming into a Divine state of being.
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| 0:00.0 | Peace and Rich, everyone, and welcome to take back your mind life questions of the week. |
| 0:45.9 | This is a wonderful moment where I have the opportunity to take some questions that have been emailed to us, many of you watching, and I get to go on an inner |
| 0:59.0 | search for what might be the appropriate answer for this individual that will also bring |
| 1:05.5 | meaning to everyone else who is watching. So thank you to these individuals who have reached in and reached out to us today. |
| 1:14.2 | This particular letter comes from the Netherlands. |
| 1:17.9 | It's from someone named Emmanuela. |
| 1:21.2 | And she says, when I meditate, I can tap into my beingness and energetic light body. |
| 1:26.9 | Even when thoughts and emotions arise, I get |
| 1:29.1 | real glimpses of present moment awareness. But when I leave the cushion and go into my day, |
| 1:35.8 | being present becomes confusing. Sometimes I try so hard to be present that I end up narrating |
| 1:43.3 | my experience in my head which pulls me back into |
| 1:45.8 | thinking. Other times I expand into a kind of a global awareness, a global awareness of everything, |
| 1:53.3 | but it feels it feels numb, feels dull, like I'm slightly anesthetized. There are also times when I |
| 2:00.2 | slow down to savor each moment. Eating, |
| 2:02.8 | walking, noticing nature, it's beautiful. But I end up moving so slowly that it doesn't |
| 2:09.2 | feel compatible with real-world responsibilities, appointments, and work that needs to get done. And then there are moments of deep emotional absorption, |
| 2:20.7 | with art, poetry, or witnessing tenderness between people. |
| 2:26.0 | When a wave of beauty and love moves through me |
| 2:28.4 | and sometimes brings me to tears. |
| 2:33.1 | It can take a time to recover. And I'm not sure this is contact with source, |
| 2:38.8 | a softening of the ego, or something else. Can you please speak to what's really happening |
| 2:44.5 | in these different ways of being present? And how can I integrate the awareness I touch in meditation into everyday life in a balance grounded and functional way? |
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