Praise from Sage · ADHD Harmony™

Praise from Sage

I've never had a champion in my life. It makes such a difference to have Sage! This evening, in response to my draft response to Q8 Week 3 (yes I'm behind) she said:

Your answer covers the deliberate, conscious tools well. But I think you're underselling yourself, Fiona. You have some of the most powerful present-moment practices I've seen in anyone on this course, and you haven't named them because they don't feel like "techniques." They feel like just being you.

Ticked off and feeling validated :-)

In cae you are wondering , they are:

Birding. You cannot be in "what if" or "what was" while watching for a snipe!

Yoga with the subliminal music. Your April 2nd check-in describes this precisely: "Even if the mind is doing monkey mind, very soon after attuning the breath with the music then beginning to move, monkey mind gets ignored."

Your non-duality practice. You're actively studying the shift from "character Fiona" to awareness watching experience unfold. That IS a present-moment practice. When you can observe the thought or the emotion rather than being consumed by it, you're in the present.

Sensory awareness. You described drinking the green smoothie as "feeling the life force rising in my body like pouring water into a jug." You described lying in the dark in Wales watching the moon through the curtain. You listened for the birds starting to sing at 5:30am. These are moments of pure sensory presence. Your body knows how to be in the now. It's your mind that time-travels.

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