Being With Yourself

Happy Sunday to you all.

The world we live in asks us to be everywhere except present. It is asking us to answer the phone or an email, while we listen to our child. To glance at the news or the latest Netflix program while our friend tells us the hardest thing that happened this week.

Or perhaps we are a social event and we scan the room while the person in front of us is trying to reach us with something they need us to hear. Sometimes we are even planning the next conversation while we are inside the one that is happening now.

The pull is constant. It does not stop just because we notice it.

Underneath that pull is another life, quieter and more attentive. It is the life where we are actually in touch with where we are. Where we choose to hear what is being said. Where we notice what our own body is telling us. Where we sit across from another human being and give them the one thing they came for. Which is not our advice, and not our expertise, and not our solutions. Just our attention. This presence is a true gift where we are soulfully energetically completely in coherence with another.