Stop…arrive.

The concept is not new, but it hit me differently today.

During my morning meditation, the prompt was “Inhale ‘I arrive’; exhale ‘I arrive”.

It captured me in the moment of breath.

We all “know” we only the present moment, but how we deal with it, embrace it, choose to use it, absorb it, is another thing.

As someone who was always looking forward, being present has been a challenge for me most of my life. It wasn’t until the car accident that the idea of “time” changed. All I had was right now. And right now. And right now.

Time itself is a human-made concept of measurement and yet we miss so much looking ahead, or dwelling on what is behind.

Be present, stay present has worked. However, today, “I arrive” gave me more to experience.

In our business and industry of creativity and working as an artist, we are always looking ahead: we get that job, and we are looking for the next one; we don’t have a job and we long for the time we did and wonder if we will ever work again. You know the drill.

Being present is a tricky concept and easily dismissed unintentionally.

I find more and more that in the studio, in the moment of exploration, of grounding, of attention to what the voice feels like and how it makes you feel, we find that present moment. We slow everything down around us so the vibration of our being acknowledges itself. Is that a little woo? Perhaps, and I don’t apologize for it.

It’s my job, and my privilege, to hold space for that energy with you and coax you into a place of NOW.

Shifting the language can absolutely change our perspective. Instead of arriving and then stopping, we STOP. We arrive. Not “I have arrived”. Not “I am arriving”. Not “I will arrive”.

I arrive. Breathe it in. Exhale it out.

Arrival needs nothing else but itself. It can be as simple as you allow it to be. It can be multi-layered and multi-dimensional, but the simplicity, as someone who has MANY tabs open in my mind all the time, is best. Nothing else matters but ARRIVAL. And that is NOW. And now. And now.

I encourage you to explore this concept. I certainly am going to. Do it as many times during the day as you want to. You can do it anywhere, anytime, and it takes one inhale and one exhale. I arrive.

Stop. Arrive. Be still and know.

with fondness & fierceness,