Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Now, I recommend the following practice because you're standing there or waiting there.

You might as well practice. Ask yourself, how would I experience this situation if I did not add any interpretation or any thought to it?

How would I experience this moment?

If I didn't add any thought to it, if I did not interpret it in any way, if I just allowed this to be as it is without

burdening it with this baggage of thought, it's okay, let's say you're standing in this

liner and it's very irritated. So how would I experience this if I did not, in other words, if I did not in my mind say this is bad?

And all the other thoughts that come after that.

Because when you say this is bad, then the next thought comes, my life is bad.

And then you get a whole string of associated thoughts that are negative.

How would I experience this moment without adding any thought to it?

Okay, so there you stand.

And this would bring your attention into the present moment.

And so your attention moves into the present moment,

and in this present moment, you're standing the end shield.

You're breathing, you're looking around, people moving, the whatever the rule is you find yourself in.

You're breathing, you're perceiving things, people, and suddenly you may find that this moment is actually free of suffering.

The suffering did not arise, was not caused by the external circumstance.

It was caused by the narrative in your mind about this circumstance. That's a huge

distinction. And this is, we begin to live consciously when you realize this. Until you realize that,

you live unconsciously, which means in spiritual terms, to live unconsciously is to be totally identified

with whatever your mind is saying. I call it the voice in the head, the narrative in your

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