First, I want to remind you of something and then we'll take it from there.

Sounds like something someone would say after someone makes a move on a date and gets rejected.

And then the person says, okay, never mind.

By the way, I love taking it from there.

It's actually thematic to the theme today, which is all about to hear now.

I love getting, if you haven't noticed, if you listen to my podcast, I always take it from there,

meaning try to start with what is present.

When you truly arrive in the here and now, your nervous system exhales.

Your brain slows its frantic loop.

Default mode network quiets, cortisol dips, the fog lifts.

Suddenly, life stops being a rerun of the past or a rehearsal of the future and starts becoming what it is the unfolding. The state rewires your brain,

literally new neural pathways from around, form around awareness instead of anxiety, around gratitude, instead of grasping.

You begin responding instead of reacting.

Your choices become conscious.

You start to choose your life instead of chasing it.

So this sentence really resonates with me.

Spent most of my life chasing instead of choosing.

Spent most of my life chasing instead of attracting.

And I'd never put effort in the here and now.

I never practiced presence. It was always about the plan, right? Never about the presence. And in this stillness, which is actually, I think at the very top of my list as far as what I'm working on, stillness, the universe has something to work with.

Now, this is really interesting.

I love this idea that when you're still, you are then channeling.

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