Just be. It's easier said than done. It's away to practice being aware and intentional with your thoughts. A way to be mindful or present.
Mindfulness like anything else is a practice. It's about about skillfully managing your attention and awareness. It’s a skill you have to practice like any other skill. The more you do it the easier it becomes. But your work is to keep at it. One mindful practice is called Just Be.
When something hard is coming up and you are suffering: Just Be
The following technique is called Just Be. When you re suffering, remind yourself to Just Be. Don’t hide it, don’t stuff it down, don’t blame yourself or another. Just be and see how you move through that discomfort and suffering with greater calm and return to love.
Life recipe for Practicing Just Be
- Just Be. You can say yourself just be. This helps you be with whatever you are feeling, thinking, or experiencing. Bring awareness to it and just let it be. Create space for recognition of what you are feeling and acceptance of it. Letting it be what it is.
- Be open. Openness allows you to let it just be without trying to change it. You can be curious and observant to shat you are feeling and experiencing without trying to change it. As you bring awareness in an open way, you are able to move beyond. You are able to accept with equanimity, allowing things thoughts experiences to be without push or pull.
- Be Kind. Be compassionate and kind to yourself an others, knowing you did the best you could. Sometimes its your own judgement of yourself that you hold on to long after the act has been forgotten. YOu can move beyond this feeling of shame or guilt with compassion. Loving yourself through it. Extend kindness to yourself as you would a friend.
- Be Intentional. This is how you return to your higher self knowing there is natural flow and life is happening for you not to you. There is a lesson in what is coming up, teaching you something, helping to grow you. Now it is your choice to respond with intention. To be responsible for your energy, for your attitude. It your choice to return to love. Choose love.
Listen in for more on how to practice Just be and practice mindfulness and meditation to feel greater calm acceptance and love. To be more present!
Enjoy a meditation at the end to ground and center you in starting this new practice.