Find Peace in the Moment

by Lorree | Jan 23, 2023 | 0 comments

You CAN find peace in the moment… with practice.

We hear it all the time, ‘Be in the moment’, ‘Be present in the now’. But how does one do this when their brain is constantly flitting around, worrying about the past, and the future?

This has been a sticking point for me for a long time and I can finally say I have cracked the code and want to share how I got here. But first let me back up to why I am even talking about this.

I just had a beautiful in-the-moment experience with nature and it was quite simple and unplanned.

From my office window I was being beckoned by the big snowflakes falling off the trees and then not long after, the sun came out! So being that this is not as common during a Canada winter I decided to take a break and go outside.

As I was wandering around my backyard, looking up at the trees, feeling the bright sunlight on my face, I started to notice the giant flakes of snow falling again, the wind was making it snow again!

I followed them down to the ground and noticed the blanket of snow looked like it had moon craters of various sized holes on the surface.

Being in the noticing of what is around us leads to a communication beyond words.

Maybe you had to be there but it was pretty cool to just be outside, on a Monday morning, having so much gratitude for the moment I was experiencing!

I felt called to sing and soon a giant grin cross my face. Maybe to an outsider looking at me I might have looked a little crazy, because standing in your backyard singing to the trees isn’t a ‘normal thing’ to do right?

Well if I haven’t lost you yet, because maybe you like weirdos like me who have deep thoughts and a quirky nature, I’d like to share a few foundational practices I use to be in the moment and BE REAL, because life is way easier and more fun when we are.

Trust me, I used to live inside my head not being me most of the time and I rarely would allow myself to be in the moment. There was just too much to do for that nonsense and getting my hopes up that I could feel happy for no reason was absurd to me.

With practice I found it’s way more simple than you probably think, the challenge is choosing to be in the moment over and over again.

My BE REAL method is foundational to being in the moment and it will shift your physiology and change your being when you practice every single day.

Here it is:

Breath and Be ~ take conscious, mindful breathing moments during the day. Focus your awareness on yourself and your environment. Be in the moment as often as you can with this practice.

Expand your Energy ~ we tend to contract inward and breath shallowly. Practice energetic expansion with mindful breathing several times a day. Fill up your belly and lungs with air and intend to expand your energy field around you.

Release the Resistance ~ our egos resist change and judgments are the clues to our truth. Who’s talking’s ego or soul? If it’s ego, acknowledge it and feel it so you can release it in a safe way. Your soul doesn’t judge, it wants you to experience life fully.

Evaluate & Elevate ~ We pick up on various energies everywhere. Tune inward often and give yourself what you need as often as you can. Do many small things to raise your vibration. What lights you up? Do it at least for a short time consistently, if it’s weekly or daily.

Ask Questions ~ Ask expansive questions of possibility to attract more of what you want. Question old ways of thinking that are not working for you. Regularly ask questions of yourself with honesty and love.

Lead with Love ~ the energy of love behind any action is an energy of flow and abundance. Practice leading with your heart, remember you have everything you need when you look within first. Practice trusting yourself and the divine plan and sprinkle gratitude on everything!

I know these things are easier said than done and as I mentioned, it’s taken me years to reprogram myself to feel safe to be me, in the moment. When I am I feel connected to the energies of love and abundance available to all of us.

The thing is we can’t get there if we are not facing the dense, polarizing parts of our life and doing our inner healing work.

I’m a Be Real Mentor and a Soul Adventure™ Guide who’s mission is to help seeking souls let go of the old ways of being and guide them towards a new, empowered life of meaning and purpose, where putting ourself first is how we help others to do the same.

If this calls to you I invite you to join me in my Patreon membership group for exclusive content.

There’s two tiers, one with monthly healings, meditations and more to support you on your purposeful journey, and there’s a Be Real meditation in there waiting for you!

The next tier is all of that plus for those who want to work with me in a small group setting once a month. We do the inner work of peeling back the layers to uncover the realness of who we are!

Regardless of how you get support, just do it, because this isn’t a journey to take alone, and in whatever way you are able to be in the moment, I applaud you for it. Every step is progress.

The digital world we live in is teaching us how vitally important it is to unplug and tune inward and to Mother Nature for guidance, healing and love.

It’s a failsafe strategy to becoming an awakened human BEing.

Here’s to being real in an often fake and artificial world.

Besides impacting the lives of others to ‘be real and love life’ the most powerful thing about the work I get to do is the reflections of the teachings that come back to me. I always receive some type of wisdom, healing or blessing from the experience, whether it’s a private, group session or a speaking event.

Whatever the message is that I’ve conveyed I am somehow reminded of how it applies to me as well and it guides me towards the next stage of my growth.

Being aware of the subtle messages that are being sent to guide us forward is very empowering.

Last weekend at the Soul Full Day conference, I guided a group of 70 women through a visualization meditation to identify and let go of a fear story holding them back from what they truly wanted for their life, freedom to live their love story.

It was remarkable to witness them releasing the fear and claiming their love stories, seeing and feeling themselves living in the higher potential of their dreams.

This week I’ve been deeply reminded of the fear story that I’ve been carrying, ‘not being well enough to live a fulfilling life because my digestive health is failing’.

This is the same story my grandmother carried, and she died in fear with this story in her which was unconsciously passed on to me, and I accepted it.

For 8 years now I’ve been having various challenges with my digestive health. I’ve seen many different professionals and tried many different remedies and lifestyle changes. Some have worked and some haven’t. Over time things seemed to have mostly settled, then just a month ago the issues flared up again in a bigger way.

This brought up the old fear story for me as I prepare for a trip of a lifetime. I’m going to Egypt on a sacred pilgrimage to the visit the lands and ancient sites with 13 other women. This will be my first trip overseas and I’ve always been fascinated with Egyptian history, never thinking I would get the opportunity to visit until it showed up to me. I was very drawn to go, and decided I was going, even though it felt way outside my ability to be able to take such a trip.

Worries and a wide range of emotions have been coming up for me since these flare ups have been happening. My mind races and makes up stories based in old fears.

What if I am not well enough to fully experience this trip? What if I am stuck in my room and miss the tours, or what if I am not able to digest the food there? All that disappointment and money spent if I might not be able to full experience it.

These stories are very similar to what my grandmother used to tell herself. She was afraid to go far from home, let alone on a plane to another country. Everything centred around her digestive limitations and she was petrified of having an ‘accident’ while out in public. These fear stories debilitated her and she became a hermit and was very lonely in her later years.

I will never forget seeing her in the final days of her life living in fear. I visited her almost every day and seeing her like that was very sad because there wasn’t much I could do other than comfort and reassure her that she would be ok.

What it did do was motivate me to face my own fears and not go down the same path as she did. In this regard, she was a great teacher to me and not long after she transitioned I was divinely guided to take the Radical Forgiveness Master Coach 10 day training in Atlanta.

It was a huge step for me, and again way outside my comfort zone, but in the end it was one of the best things I could have done for myself because it set me on the trajectory of facing my fears, and the journey of living my love story.

I am eternally grateful to be on this path of self-forgiveness and self-acceptance just as I am, and in time I have learned to love myself. I’m still on this healing journey however this year I’ve had some major shifts in this area of my life and feel truly worthy and deserving of this love for myself because I have freedom from the fears.

This is where the synchronicity comes in again.

It just so happens that this Friday, the day I fly to Egypt, is the 9 year anniversary of my grandmother’s passing, and it’s a full moon! You just can’t make these things up. I didn’t realize the mysterious alignment of these dates until just a few weeks ago.

In numerology the number 9 represents endings and completions and I have a strong intuitive feeling that this trip is going to be transformational for me as a new beginning.

The other day when I was dancing my grandmother came to my mind, she was dancing with me, and I know she is leaving me these breadcrumb signs to follow to complete this stage of my journey. I made a promise to her that I was going to end the cycle of fear she carried and commit myself to healing into wholeness.

I have no doubt that this is all happening for me, rather than to me. And unlike my grandmother, I will face my fears and take this trip and I will trust in the divine unfoldment of it all.

I am reminded that everything is always working out for me, even if it doesn’t seem that way and she is cheering me on all along the way.

These are the same phrases I spoke to the women when I was on stage just a few days ago and they echo loudly in my mind as the beautiful blessings of having the freedom to live my love story.

If you would like to experience the guided visualization for yourself listen to the audio recording so you too can be free from your fear story and claim your love story.

In my next blog I will share about my travel adventures so stay tuned, and if you would like to be notified when I share it you can join my email Love Letter list at the bottom of this page.

Until next time… thank you for being here.

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