Sentences with phrase «being present in the moment rather»

«Mindfulness can be a helpful tool that assists mothers during an incredibly stressful time for them, and for their family by allowing them to pause and be present in the moment rather than wishing something different was happening or worrying about tomorrow.»

«Forest bathing calls for using all of your senses so you are practicing being present in the moment rather than focused on the future or worrying about what might happen or regretting what took place in the past,» says psychologist Elizabeth Lombardo.

Not exact matches

Unless we observe a rather swift improvement in market internals and a further, material easing in credit spreads — neither which would relieve the present overvaluation of the market, but both which would defer our immediate concerns about downside risk — the present moment likely represents the best opportunity to reduce exposure to stock market risk that investors are likely to encounter in the coming 8 years.

Rather, it is a proclamation that, in the happening of Jesus the Christ, God discloses himself as the ever - present giver of our lives, and, therefore, we are free to live our lives as they are given moment by moment.

It is rather the «impact» of the relation in the present moment between the human I and that non-human existing being which has become real for him as «Thou».

This, of course, is in accordance with our earlier comments about direction or routing; and any accurate portrayal of human existence is to be found, not in some static cross-section at this or that moment, but rather in the movement which that existence is taking from the past, through the present, towards the future.

Part of the answer is that these ancient events are moments in a living process which includes also the existence of the church at the present day; and another part is that, as Christians believe, in these events of ancient time God was at work among men, and it is from his action in history rather than from abstract arguments that we learn what God is like, and what are the principles on which he deals with men, now as always.

The sense in which this is true must be explored; it will suffice at the moment if we repeat once again that «memorial» here does not indicate mental reverie but rather a genuine and vital re-call of the past into the immediacy of present experience.

Reading that thing is NOT easy... thats why it stays in the closet and collects dust... i'd rather meditate and be present in the moment... its all we have anyway... The problem is we are taking SOO much time to discus what is going to happen when we die, that we don't take time to focus on how to live in THIS VERY MOMmoment... its all we have anyway... The problem is we are taking SOO much time to discus what is going to happen when we die, that we don't take time to focus on how to live in THIS VERY MOMENTMOMENT...

For the past exists in God's remembering it, and the future in His anticipating it; and what is remembered and anticipated in the life of God is not reduced to a present moment but rather spans and enables all moments.

The preaching model that is faithful to the social worlds inherent in the sermon moment, rather than establishing itself on a line that carries message, preacher, and people in sequence, actually presents itself in a loop of three interlocking circles within an encompassing circle.

Hartshorne seems to hold that we shall engage in no personal actions at all after death; and, as for rewards and punishments, he declares his rather unconventional conviction that they are all received in the now of the present moment of action and at no other time or place.46

Since for Whitehead the present is momentary rather than instantaneous, possessing a temporal thickness, that moment is capable of formal subdivision in terms of what comes before another, so that it makes perfect sense to argue that incomplete phases of unification take place before the final unity.

That's not what consciousness is, consciousness is the ability to become more aware of when we have fallen off track, when we need to shift back into the deepest state of groundedness, when we are being triggered by our past, rather than responding to the present, when we are responding to our own unmet needs rather than responding to a child's need in the moment.

And when it comes down to it, if given the choice, my kids would rather have a (relatively) rested, calm, relaxed and PRESENT mom to come home to after school and to tuck them in at night than one who is their class mom and girl scout troop leader and baseball team mom and who runs the school store organizes the school fundraiser and is on every board there is to be on in town (I don't do all that stuff, but you get the point) and who is also a complete and total stressed out and spread thin raging lunatic from the moment they get home until the moment they are in bed.

When we practice mindfulness and approach our experiences with gentleness, our thoughts tune into what we're sensing in the present moment rather than rehashing the past or imagining the future.

A little friend there to remind you to be present in your day, alive in the moment, happy and content with what you have rather than what you don't.

The sights, scents and tactile stimuli encountered when working with plants provide a sensory experience that enables people to be in the present moment rather than dwelling on problems.

Affirmative that strings are more present than ever, the songs are more reliant on the overall texture, rather than on single - worthy moments and there are songs in the album, who date back to pre-Big Bang.

I guess that's one of the things that makes them different from photographs, in that a photograph might be a record, a snap, one moment — a painting I think is about creating a small world around that photo... I really like that idea of something that you can enter like a box or an exhibition space, and enter these little rooms which for me are memories, but it's not about nostalgia — it's more about setting up something that's still living — so it's almost they're all in the present, rather than in the past.»

In this appropriation of a flagrantly racist caricature from America's vaudevillian past, Thomas highlights the entertainment value of a vaudeville performer; however, Biggers» minstrel is not presented in the act of performing, rather he is captured in a moment of reflectioIn this appropriation of a flagrantly racist caricature from America's vaudevillian past, Thomas highlights the entertainment value of a vaudeville performer; however, Biggers» minstrel is not presented in the act of performing, rather he is captured in a moment of reflectioin the act of performing, rather he is captured in a moment of reflectioin a moment of reflection.

The difficulty an art critic has addressing the full complexity of his or her present moment is manifested in part by the fact that, historically at least, the best art criticism has most often had to do with the art of a critic's recent past, rather than of his or her immediate present.

Gioni elaborates that, «The construction of the show itself is not traditional, in the sense of chronological presentation, and in fact, within each thematic we have created to present Pettibon's work, we present the works from different moments in his career and history, so you have this strange confrontation [where] the more graphic work is next to the more painterly work, going through his work, in a sense, vertically rather than horizontally.»

It is based on the concept of mindfulness, or being fully engaged in the present moment rather than worrying about past or future events, an ancient concept in Buddhist psychology.

«I respectfully focus on the uniqueness of each individual and how they are experiencing themselves in the present moment, rather than what they have been told in the past.

Practice staying present, not going on «autopilot,» and responding to child needs rather than reacting to what is happening in the moment