The Most Important Thing
What is the Most Important thing for you right now?
Take a moment and really think about it.
What Is the most important thing for YOU right now?
When I ask this to my clients and students, common responses are—my family, finding a partner, getting a better job, healing this disease, solving such-and-such problem, etc.
Yes, these are all very important! However, none of them is the most important thing in your life.
I’ll give a hint: Right here, right now, in THIS very moment, what is the most important thing for you?
The answers usually change—my kids, my health, my family. Maybe now in April 2020, people would respond with—not catching and/or spreading the coronavirus, keeping my family safe and afloat, finding/keeping a job, making sure my kids are still being educated, etc.
Again, these are all very important to be sure, but they are not the Most Important thing in the present moment.
Another hint: The answer to this question is the SAME for every single one of us.
Does that help?
Answer: Your. Next. Breath.
Because without your next breath, you’ve got nada, nothin’, zip. Nothing else matters more than Your. Next. Breath.
So take one. Not a shallow upper chest breath. Take a deep, abdomen-expanding, filling and fulfilling breath. It will help if you focus on the exhale first:
Breath out all the air in your lungs and then squeeze out several more breaths
Hold your breath with your lungs empty for several seconds
Take in a slow, deep inhale filling up your lungs
Notice how good you feel from this one, single, satisfying, oh so satiating breath! How long did that take? Surely, less than 20 seconds. You have this feeling available to you always, 24/7, for the rest of your life—until…Your. Last. Breath.
But it’s up to you. Can you create this content feeling? Can you be present enough to your own life to remember to take one of these physiological state-changing breaths? Can you give yourself the luxury of taking two of them? If things are exceptionally stressful, can you take 3 or 4?
Will being present at your breath level solve your problems? Nope. But it’s the first step to actualizing the magic of mindfulness. More on that later. This was just a simple reminder that the MOST IMPORTANT thing in your life at any given moment, albeit, the ONLY THING that matters, is Your. Next. Breath.
Such a gift! It’s free, immediate, powerful and abundant! So enjoy it:)!
Just. Breathe.
Susan Moe of Ascended Presence provides clairvoyant reading and intuitive life coaching programs to help you discover the deeper truth of your soul, and unlock your heart's greatest potential. She offers grounding and energy management courses to help you achieve greater balance in your life.
This experience was literally one of the most stressful of my life! And that is saying a LOT given I’d already overcome years of infertility trying to get these amazing kids, survived cancer while completing grad school, and moved internationally three times in two years.