I'm de-Bak-Shopper. This is a encounter.

I'm Dibach-Chopra. This is Daily Breath.

When you are present, there's an encounter of what is called presence.

What exactly does that mean? presence means,

presence means showing up in your own life, becoming much more aware.

In fact, just being present.

It requires the mind to show up as well as the spirit to show up.

Presence simply means to be fully aware in the present moment of what is happening both outside you and inside you, both in the physical world of perceptions and the mental world of sensations and the mental world of sensations, images, feelings and thoughts.

Normally we drift in and out of awareness and as we do this creates the unpredictability of what we call being present, or the unpredictability

of what we call presence.

We are typically in a state of dissociation or disconnect and sometimes it takes a severe jolt to make this apparent.

There's a tradition of placing the body under intense stress which can cause a sudden snap into full awareness.

This happens to soldiers on the battlefield in times of war in times of crossfire. A state of fear and

apprehension is transformed into sensations of total awareness of being present fully and totally in what we call

the now. A feeling of physical lightness or even weightlessness occurs. There is a sensation of

heightened colors and sounds. There is intense awareness of breathing or maybe

even your heartbeat. There is sometimes

stingling energy in the body. Frequently total relaxation, even a sense of

euphoria. This heightened awareness isn't tense, excited and physically

exhausting in the aftermath. These are all hallmarks of an adrenaline rush.

The after effects of an episode of higher consciousness are, in contrast, totally relaxed and blissful. The When there is presence or when presence appears it happens naturally and without effort.

You can't force it. You can prepare the way however, which is what we do

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