This week, on The Conscious Consultant Hour, we have another show with just you and Sam as he shares about how surrendering can serve us.
Surrendering is hard. It feels like we’re giving up. And sometime we are! But surrendering is so much more. It is a skill we can learn to use at the appropriate time.
Giving up gets a bad rap. So often it feels like we’re a failure if we give up. But is that really true? Is giving up, or giving in, really the worst thing we can do?
Perhaps it is exactly the right thing to do. Perhaps what we need to learn is how to determine when it is the exact right thing to do. Maybe we can learn how to judge when to surrender and when not to. Most of us do not live in a war one or are not engaged in warfare. Perhaps we should stop acting like we are.
Tune in and share your own thoughts about how surrendering and when have you had to give up on our YouTube livestream or on Facebook.
http://www.theconsciousconsultant.com/
Tune in for this enlightening conversation at TalkRadio.nyc
00:00:37.150 --> 00:00:42.500 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: good afternoon, my conscious co-creators!
00:00:42.790 --> 00:00:56.469 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Good morning. Good evening. Wherever you're tuning in from. Welcome to that conscious. Consult now, or awakening humanity. I am very, very pleased that you are all here with me today.
00:00:56.780 --> 00:01:00.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's one of those special shows where it's just you and me
00:01:01.160 --> 00:01:05.489 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: discussing our topic of the day. So please
00:01:05.550 --> 00:01:29.589 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: comment on our Facebook live. Comment on the Youtube, video. Let us know what you're thinking, ask your questions. This is your opportunity. You have me for the hour. Ask your questions, and I will answer them. In the order they are received. So today's topic that we're going to get to in a moment
00:01:29.730 --> 00:01:33.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is about surrendering how and when to surrender.
00:01:34.540 --> 00:01:46.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I think I might just change it up a little bit. So those of you who are here live will get to see what I'm actually gonna talk about.
00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:55.739 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But first, of course we have our little section from our book every day, awakening, getting close to the end of
00:01:55.770 --> 00:02:17.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of the book. I don't know. Not too many more left. I'm I'm I'm asking you to vote. Tell me, how would you like me to start off my show once I finish and gone through all the sections of my book do I start over again? Do I find something else to kind of set the theme for the day? You let me know, and
00:02:17.650 --> 00:02:19.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the winner will.
00:02:19.300 --> 00:02:22.159 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we'll get to help guide the show. So
00:02:22.990 --> 00:02:35.789 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: today's section of the book is entitled. The Moments Lived. being truly present are the most precious of all.
00:02:38.450 --> 00:02:41.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What do we measure a life by?
00:02:42.390 --> 00:02:49.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Do we measure it by the number of dollars earned? Do we measure it by the number of lives touched?
00:02:51.220 --> 00:02:58.899 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Or do we stop measuring everything and just acknowledge that each life is precious?
00:03:00.340 --> 00:03:02.889 We all contribute in our own way.
00:03:03.220 --> 00:03:07.530 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We add to the fullness that is life in this world.
00:03:08.160 --> 00:03:22.750 We all add to the richness that makes up the tapestry of creation. regardless of how much money we have earned. regardless of how many accomplishments we are credited with.
00:03:23.080 --> 00:03:26.530 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: regardless of the races won.
00:03:26.740 --> 00:03:36.440 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The moments we live, being truly present with another being. are the most precious of all.
00:03:38.430 --> 00:03:46.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: In the end a life lived with joy and compassion is the richest life of all.
00:03:47.900 --> 00:03:53.369 Our value as an individual is not about who is the most productive.
00:03:54.280 --> 00:04:03.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It is not about who makes the most deals. It is not about who has the largest or smallest family.
00:04:04.530 --> 00:04:05.930 our energy.
00:04:06.320 --> 00:04:15.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: our presence creates a unique impact on this planet. Everyone adds something to the mix.
00:04:20.200 --> 00:04:24.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: If we were not here. things would be different.
00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:32.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: If we never existed, life would be unimaginably altered
00:04:32.590 --> 00:04:36.990 from the poorest of the poor to the richest and the most famous.
00:04:38.040 --> 00:04:42.849 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We all have a place in this world.
00:04:45.970 --> 00:04:48.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Our roles are different.
00:04:49.590 --> 00:04:52.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: our purposes diverse.
00:04:53.360 --> 00:05:00.709 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: As we learn to revel in our differences and stop comparing ourselves to others.
00:05:01.170 --> 00:05:05.889 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we start to live more fully, live life more fully
00:05:06.440 --> 00:05:12.009 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we focus on each moment as the precious gift it is
00:05:12.310 --> 00:05:15.559 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we become rich in experience.
00:05:17.270 --> 00:05:20.450 So how are you measuring your life?
00:05:23.290 --> 00:05:24.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So
00:05:25.290 --> 00:05:30.600 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it's actually quite interesting that this happens to be the the section of the book today.
00:05:33.650 --> 00:05:34.580 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and
00:05:35.790 --> 00:05:42.009 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I guess III had written this back when I was a bit reflective in the past.
00:05:42.540 --> 00:05:44.010 And
00:05:46.460 --> 00:05:48.589 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: yeah, I was thinking about
00:05:49.480 --> 00:05:51.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know how we measure life.
00:05:53.890 --> 00:05:55.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know. How do we.
00:05:57.140 --> 00:06:03.989 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when we're at the end of our days. and we're looking back over our life. What are the things we remember?
00:06:05.060 --> 00:06:07.690 What are the the moments that
00:06:08.420 --> 00:06:11.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: are nearest and dearest to us?
00:06:17.720 --> 00:06:19.039 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And
00:06:20.280 --> 00:06:23.769 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know. I guess I've I've been on this kick for a while that.
00:06:25.750 --> 00:06:28.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: having the most productive life.
00:06:29.550 --> 00:06:32.130 not necessarily having the richest life.
00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:36.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and having a life filled
00:06:37.130 --> 00:06:38.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: with
00:06:39.000 --> 00:06:51.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: hours spent at work and making deals and making money, and trying to become famous and getting millions of followers and doing. You know, whatever it is that we do
00:06:52.620 --> 00:06:56.180 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to gain recognition and awareness.
00:06:59.520 --> 00:07:04.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But that's not what really makes us rich in our hearts
00:07:07.510 --> 00:07:12.319 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that actually, those moments when we're really present.
00:07:13.450 --> 00:07:16.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: really present to
00:07:18.340 --> 00:07:19.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the sunset.
00:07:22.220 --> 00:07:25.290 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the cool breeze blowing on our skin.
00:07:27.320 --> 00:07:32.439 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the smell of pine trees in the winter, or the flowers in the summer.
00:07:34.940 --> 00:07:39.689 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the feeling of the ocean water washing against our skin
00:07:42.530 --> 00:07:52.979 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the the view of a beautiful vista when we've hiked to the top of a mountain, or or gone to some amazing place, like the Grand Canyon.
00:07:54.140 --> 00:08:04.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or beholding some of the ancient sites, like the pyramids in Giza. or or the ones in Mexico.
00:08:06.710 --> 00:08:09.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the ruins in Rome or
00:08:09.570 --> 00:08:14.420 so some of the ancient sites throughout Europe and Africa and Asia.
00:08:17.260 --> 00:08:22.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There's so much wonder there's so much beauty in this world.
00:08:24.650 --> 00:08:26.800 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: There's so much to take in
00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:36.249 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: those moments are what make life worth living
00:08:41.549 --> 00:08:45.810 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: today in society. There's this pandemic
00:08:46.860 --> 00:08:48.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of distractedness.
00:08:49.850 --> 00:08:51.839 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of being so
00:08:53.060 --> 00:08:55.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: out of the present moment
00:08:57.310 --> 00:09:02.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because of our phones, our computers, our Tvs, and
00:09:07.400 --> 00:09:09.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know, we've never lived at a time
00:09:10.300 --> 00:09:18.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: where we have instant access to to happenings and and events around the planet instantaneously.
00:09:19.320 --> 00:09:22.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it's created this sort of
00:09:23.300 --> 00:09:31.309 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: pole to not be present to where we are right here right now, what's going on right in front of us.
00:09:33.030 --> 00:09:36.809 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: sharing these precious moments with the people we're with.
00:09:39.980 --> 00:09:52.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Even if we don't like the person, a whole lot doesn't matter. This present moment is the richest place we can be.
00:09:57.670 --> 00:09:59.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I guess II
00:10:00.910 --> 00:10:11.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know I've had these experiences, and I'm not saying, I have these experiences all the time. but every now and then there are these moments
00:10:13.520 --> 00:10:15.480 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when I'm truly present
00:10:16.540 --> 00:10:23.350 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: where I'm truly with another person, truly, with nature, truly, with my surroundings.
00:10:26.200 --> 00:10:36.609 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We're not wondering. you know, who just texted me, who just messaged me. What did someone just post on social media? But I'm not distracted
00:10:37.970 --> 00:10:42.649 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: by then information that actually doesn't really make a huge difference in my life.
00:10:45.200 --> 00:10:46.819 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Those moments
00:10:48.800 --> 00:11:02.200 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when I'm sharing a meal with my wife, or are gathering with some amazing friends, or or travelling to a new neighborhood in the city, or going to a different city.
00:11:03.720 --> 00:11:12.780 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: soaking in the the texture, the feeling of of what it means to be alive.
00:11:15.890 --> 00:11:17.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Those moments
00:11:19.430 --> 00:11:20.530 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I would make
00:11:20.560 --> 00:11:22.899 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: my life rich
00:11:24.440 --> 00:11:27.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: would make life worth living.
00:11:28.680 --> 00:11:35.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And yes, sometimes those moments are painful. Sometimes those moments hurt.
00:11:36.900 --> 00:11:40.770 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Sometimes there's disappointment and pain
00:11:41.820 --> 00:11:45.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: could be physical. Pain could be emotional pain.
00:11:48.880 --> 00:11:53.980 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But even in the pain. that's how we know we're alive.
00:11:55.430 --> 00:12:00.799 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's how we know that we're here in a physical body, experiencing life.
00:12:02.610 --> 00:12:05.239 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because when we numb ourselves out.
00:12:05.260 --> 00:12:07.990 when we distract ourselves
00:12:09.830 --> 00:12:16.190 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: from where we are in this moment we lose such a precious gift
00:12:20.000 --> 00:12:33.739 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: nobody has ever said on their death bed. Oh, I wish I worked more hours on my business or at my job. Oh, I wish I spent more time on the computer on my phone. No
00:12:36.350 --> 00:12:46.740 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: people say things like. I wish I told more people how I really felt about them. I wish I had expressed my love more.
00:12:48.050 --> 00:12:49.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I wish
00:12:50.080 --> 00:13:00.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'd been more present to my life and those around me. I wish I had been there for a friend who was in pain that I didn't even know it.
00:13:03.680 --> 00:13:07.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Those are the kinds of regrets we have at the end of our life.
00:13:10.820 --> 00:13:11.950 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so.
00:13:13.180 --> 00:13:16.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: if those are the regrets, what can we do about them? Now?
00:13:19.410 --> 00:13:22.760 To me the answer always comes back to one thing.
00:13:24.950 --> 00:13:33.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's about living life in this amazing, beautiful present moment.
00:13:38.220 --> 00:13:39.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Now look!
00:13:40.710 --> 00:13:44.429 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Do we experience every moment as beautiful? Of course not.
00:13:46.290 --> 00:14:05.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: If we just got into an accident. If you're in a war zone, if you're in the middle of an abusive relationship, if you've just lost someone that's near and dear to you, those moments are painful, they're excruciating. We would rather be anywhere else than to be
00:14:06.630 --> 00:14:10.450 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: here in that moment of agony.
00:14:16.020 --> 00:14:19.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yet even in our agony there's an aliveness.
00:14:24.890 --> 00:14:29.259 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the most challenging part about being in agony when we're present to it.
00:14:29.550 --> 00:14:31.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is not knowing when it's going to end.
00:14:34.890 --> 00:14:42.850 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But if we can remember but this, too, shall pass that nothing is permanent.
00:14:44.680 --> 00:14:47.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that her pain is not permanent either.
00:14:49.000 --> 00:14:54.849 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Then maybe just maybe you can be a little bit more present to what's going on.
00:14:59.280 --> 00:15:11.819 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And if each of us. if everyone hearing this message, whether live or the recording or playing it back years from now. everyone hearing this.
00:15:14.090 --> 00:15:26.589 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: can just focus on being a little bit more present in this moment. After you finish, wish listening to the show to truly be present to those around you.
00:15:28.720 --> 00:15:30.690 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What a world we would have. Huh!
00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:39.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That maybe we'd be a little more concerned with the things that truly affect us, a little less concerned with the things that, don't
00:15:42.070 --> 00:15:47.329 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that maybe then we can find meaning in our lives.
00:15:49.060 --> 00:15:53.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe then, we can find our true life's purpose at the moment.
00:15:55.040 --> 00:15:59.179 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because maybe our purpose is nothing more
00:15:59.250 --> 00:16:02.780 then, learning to be truly present
00:16:04.470 --> 00:16:14.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to who we're with. to what we're with. to what we're experiencing. to squeeze the juice out of life
00:16:17.650 --> 00:16:20.849 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: by getting everything we can
00:16:22.020 --> 00:16:28.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: out of this moment in time. because in the end
00:16:28.090 --> 00:16:33.680 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that is all we have is this present moment.
00:16:33.830 --> 00:16:38.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The past is gone, the future has not happened yet.
00:16:39.960 --> 00:16:44.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We are only in this eternal
00:16:44.400 --> 00:16:49.679 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: present moment. It's all that exists for us.
00:16:53.580 --> 00:17:02.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I love this topic of presence. and although my schedule topic for this week is about surrender.
00:17:04.140 --> 00:17:14.560 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Well, what are we surrendering to? Ultimately, it's surrendering to this present moment. So I think we're gonna talk a little bit more about presence, especially because
00:17:15.089 --> 00:17:18.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: of some events that happened recently which I will share with you.
00:17:20.770 --> 00:17:42.479 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So I appreciate you all tuning in today. That was the section of my book the section was entitled, The Moments Lived, being truly present are the most precious of all, and that, of course, is from my book every day awakening, which you all know by now. You can find it every day awakening book.com.
00:17:42.610 --> 00:17:44.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or at your local bookstore.
00:17:45.860 --> 00:17:49.570 So we're gonna go out for a first break, and when we come back
00:17:50.440 --> 00:17:59.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: let's dive in. I'll be looking to see if my loyal listeners out there have any comments. and then we'll get into
00:18:01.000 --> 00:18:03.549 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: surrender and presence.
00:18:05.290 --> 00:18:25.630 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How they're related and why they're both so so important in our lives. So you're listening to the conscious consultant hour awakening humanity. I do this every Thursday, 12 noon to one pm, eastern time, right here on talk radio data, Nyc, and all over Facebook
00:18:25.780 --> 00:18:29.519 and Youtube and Twitter and Linkedin and Twitch.
00:18:30.090 --> 00:18:33.390 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and we'll be right back in just a moment.
00:20:13.910 --> 00:20:14.960 A
00:20:20.280 --> 00:20:23.770 and you
00:20:27.950 --> 00:20:30.170 all
00:20:42.530 --> 00:20:50.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and welcome back to the conscious consult now are awakening humanity. I'm truly grateful that
00:20:50.050 --> 00:21:00.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you're all listening. And here with me today. Good to see my my my dear friend Jay, liking the stream on Facebook. Thank you, Jay.
00:21:01.210 --> 00:21:02.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Still.
00:21:03.610 --> 00:21:09.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: my original topic for today. And and and we're still gonna talk about it is is about surrendering.
00:21:11.580 --> 00:21:14.479 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Because that was kind of in the
00:21:14.720 --> 00:21:18.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: conversation last week. Kind of present
00:21:18.590 --> 00:21:22.209 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: about what it means to surrender what it's like to surrender.
00:21:25.430 --> 00:21:28.410 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But then something happened
00:21:28.430 --> 00:21:30.110 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: over the last week
00:21:31.460 --> 00:21:34.180 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that really
00:21:34.290 --> 00:21:36.509 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: took me to a new place.
00:21:37.800 --> 00:21:39.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and
00:21:45.030 --> 00:21:46.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I really
00:21:47.750 --> 00:21:50.809 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: II have to give this gentleman a lot of credit.
00:21:51.040 --> 00:22:03.479 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: II had a a a a session with this gentleman who I met by the name of Mark Mathes, who does this wonderful thing called reset it.
00:22:04.070 --> 00:22:05.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and he's up in Canada.
00:22:07.110 --> 00:22:08.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And
00:22:09.590 --> 00:22:19.659 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it was really fascinating to to to see the magic that he does, which is really all about bringing us back to presence
00:22:20.750 --> 00:22:27.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and looking at anything that triggers us. Anything that's from our programming and our conditioning
00:22:29.170 --> 00:22:35.919 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and looking at it through the eyes of presence. and how it completely changes and lifts
00:22:38.310 --> 00:22:41.539 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: are are triggers, our responses.
00:22:49.360 --> 00:22:54.410 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And after I experienced his work, and it was very, very simple.
00:22:56.000 --> 00:22:58.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and he would ask this question
00:23:02.430 --> 00:23:11.449 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in in when when he got me in the state of presence. So from this state of presence is there.
00:23:11.820 --> 00:23:15.609 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know XY, or z, or is there just you?
00:23:16.940 --> 00:23:21.560 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And every time it was like just
00:23:21.710 --> 00:23:23.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: just me, just you.
00:23:25.390 --> 00:23:36.670 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it really showed me the power of presence. and it also really showed to me like how much we truly are programmed from the time where kids
00:23:37.220 --> 00:23:47.299 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: by our parents, by our school system, by society at large, like so much of what we experience
00:23:49.900 --> 00:23:51.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is based on
00:23:51.950 --> 00:23:56.350 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: this conditioning that we get from the time we're children.
00:24:05.380 --> 00:24:08.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And so that kind of
00:24:09.130 --> 00:24:20.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: experience. It really moved me and caused me to wanna sort of shift exactly what my focus was gonna be for the show this week.
00:24:24.470 --> 00:24:30.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because surrendering is a very powerful tool, and and I do want to talk about surrendering.
00:24:32.720 --> 00:24:34.409 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And here in the West.
00:24:35.750 --> 00:24:44.359 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and just, I would say. kind of in patriarchal societies in general, the idea of surrendering is like
00:24:44.660 --> 00:24:55.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and awful fun. It's like, no, you can't surrender. You've gotta keep fighting. You've gotta keep going, you know, no matter what, never give up, never give in that kind of nonsense.
00:24:56.110 --> 00:24:58.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Yes, I said, nonsense!
00:24:58.330 --> 00:24:59.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Hmm!
00:25:05.410 --> 00:25:13.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And sometimes the exact right thing to do is surrender
00:25:14.460 --> 00:25:15.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: is to give up
00:25:16.790 --> 00:25:18.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to stop holding on.
00:25:21.750 --> 00:25:27.749 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because what happens when we surrender. and what are we really surrendering to?
00:25:31.060 --> 00:25:34.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Ultimately. ultimately
00:25:35.080 --> 00:25:37.340 we're surrendering to
00:25:37.590 --> 00:25:44.729 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: presence? We're surrendering to what it means to be just present in the moment.
00:25:49.630 --> 00:25:56.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and surrendering is not about giving up. It's not about failing at something.
00:26:01.030 --> 00:26:02.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's about
00:26:04.470 --> 00:26:09.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: surrendering to what life has put in front of us in this moment.
00:26:11.530 --> 00:26:14.260 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's about surrendering
00:26:18.060 --> 00:26:21.509 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to whatever we're experiencing.
00:26:22.690 --> 00:26:29.099 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: whether it's pain, whether it's joy, whether it's gratitude whether it's anger
00:26:30.430 --> 00:26:35.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: really being present to those feelings and to ourselves.
00:26:37.520 --> 00:26:41.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And if we can just take a moment
00:26:42.270 --> 00:26:45.999 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to stop paying attention to our phones to stop
00:26:47.260 --> 00:26:48.830 doom scrolling
00:26:49.560 --> 00:26:55.600 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and stop focusing so much on the doing and doing and doing of life
00:26:57.910 --> 00:27:03.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and focus and surrendering to just being in life.
00:27:05.570 --> 00:27:10.010 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Suddenly we have a totally different experience in life.
00:27:11.120 --> 00:27:12.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Suddenly
00:27:15.120 --> 00:27:18.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we hear with ourselves in the present moment.
00:27:21.580 --> 00:27:24.309 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and sometimes that's unpleasant.
00:27:25.670 --> 00:27:36.179 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We've all experienced trauma. We've all had challenges in our life that we carry with us. even though they're long gone.
00:27:37.600 --> 00:27:40.359 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But they're still present in our minds.
00:27:44.510 --> 00:27:50.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And because of that pain, because of those unresolved issues.
00:27:51.680 --> 00:27:59.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we constantly take ourselves out of the present moment, we constantly look towards something else.
00:28:03.890 --> 00:28:07.860 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's why this phenomenon of cell phones
00:28:09.040 --> 00:28:11.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so easily
00:28:12.340 --> 00:28:14.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: pervaded society
00:28:16.450 --> 00:28:27.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and got so popular because it would pull us out of the uncomfortableness that we experience in our own lives
00:28:27.290 --> 00:28:39.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and gives us something else to focus on. gives us something else to distract us with. Instead of just sitting right where we are, and taking a breath
00:28:40.960 --> 00:28:45.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in allowing our bodies and our and our beings.
00:28:46.410 --> 00:28:50.229 Take in all of what we're experiencing.
00:28:56.030 --> 00:29:01.310 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And yes, it's it's not easy. it it's it's not
00:29:01.430 --> 00:29:02.430 fun
00:29:02.820 --> 00:29:06.820 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to sit here and be present. If you have a migraine
00:29:06.840 --> 00:29:10.719 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or a stomach ache, or you have a broken leg.
00:29:13.830 --> 00:29:16.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or there's just something going on that
00:29:17.570 --> 00:29:22.879 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it's it's so painful it almost brings us to tears.
00:29:24.710 --> 00:29:27.810 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe the love of your life left you.
00:29:28.970 --> 00:29:43.959 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and maybe not only did they leave you. They cheated on you with your best friend, and and they. They bashed you and talked bad about you and gasolit you so you can't even talk to any of your friends, and you just feel awful.
00:29:47.100 --> 00:29:55.220 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I am what I want you to here for me today is it's okay to feel awful.
00:29:57.080 --> 00:30:00.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it's not always going to be that way.
00:30:01.560 --> 00:30:04.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because the real trick
00:30:04.510 --> 00:30:10.930 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to getting through these challenging experiences is by being present to them.
00:30:12.080 --> 00:30:22.819 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because when we're truly present to them, we don't hold on to them. we experience them, and then when they're gone, they're gone. And then we're having a new experience.
00:30:27.220 --> 00:30:32.119 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And I'm gonna talk a little bit more about that. When we come back from
00:30:32.180 --> 00:30:52.709 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: from this next break. And I do see our loyal listener, Sinai, on on the Facebook live and and thank you. I'm glad you love these, these one on one shows. And yeah, she says, you gain clarity through painful moments. And that's absolutely true.
00:30:54.340 --> 00:31:02.440 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And in some ways we learn a lot more, both about ourselves and about the world around us.
00:31:03.430 --> 00:31:16.059 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: through the painful moments, than we do through the joyful moments. Not that the joyful in the moments are not wonderful and ecstatic and beautiful, and we should not all experience them as much as possible. Absolutely.
00:31:18.800 --> 00:31:25.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But yeah. if we stop judging those uncomfortable moments.
00:31:26.610 --> 00:31:28.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Wow! Then there's
00:31:28.590 --> 00:31:31.410 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: a treasure trove of information there.
00:31:32.650 --> 00:31:35.679 So we're gonna take this quick break. And then when we come back.
00:31:36.810 --> 00:31:39.089 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we're gonna talk a little bit more
00:31:41.190 --> 00:31:45.249 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: about what we can learn from nature and presence
00:31:46.090 --> 00:31:48.029 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: so that it can serve us.
00:31:49.890 --> 00:32:06.280 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So you're listening to the conscious consult now, or awakening humanity. We do this every Thursday 12 noon to one Pm. Eastern time and all across social media and all across all the podcasting platforms. You can catch the recording, and we'll be right back
00:32:06.790 --> 00:32:08.300 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in just a moment.
00:33:07.450 --> 00:33:08.690 a
00:33:58.130 --> 00:34:00.830 All
00:34:16.130 --> 00:34:20.719 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So what can we learn from nature about presence?
00:34:22.690 --> 00:34:26.439 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What can nature teach us? What can we observe
00:34:27.530 --> 00:34:31.329 that can really help us with presence, particularly
00:34:32.300 --> 00:34:35.109 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: being present in those challenging moments.
00:34:38.360 --> 00:34:40.429 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So I like to think of
00:34:41.520 --> 00:34:45.080 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the story of the Gizelle and the lion.
00:34:48.030 --> 00:34:54.700 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You see, if you observe, animals, animals are very, very present to their environment.
00:34:56.120 --> 00:35:02.829 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: That's why you can be playing with a dog. And then all of a sudden, squirrel. And it runs. And it's oh, something else.
00:35:03.800 --> 00:35:10.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because it's presence. It's just there being, with whatever it notices.
00:35:11.460 --> 00:35:14.820 but with the gazelle and the lion. It's quite interesting.
00:35:16.040 --> 00:35:19.600 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The gazelle can be outgrazing in the savannah.
00:35:20.600 --> 00:35:29.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Then all of a sudden the lion jumps out of nowhere and starts chasing it, and the gazelle runs. and during that time.
00:35:29.860 --> 00:35:36.249 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when the line is chasing it. The adrenaline is flowing, the the the
00:35:36.330 --> 00:35:44.709 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: the animals working extra hard. It's it's running for its life. It's literally running for its life.
00:35:48.960 --> 00:36:00.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and maybe the lion. It gets scratches it. Maybe it catches it even maybe bites it, but then the gazelle gets away. Sometimes it doesn't but the giselle gets away.
00:36:01.890 --> 00:36:05.530 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then it runs off, and eventually there's no lying around.
00:36:06.970 --> 00:36:09.189 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And then what does the gazelle do?
00:36:11.410 --> 00:36:14.350 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Really pay attention to? Those? Nature shows
00:36:15.210 --> 00:36:19.870 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: all animals that have just escaped a predator.
00:36:20.100 --> 00:36:23.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: They all do the same thing. They shake.
00:36:25.740 --> 00:36:26.899 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: they shake.
00:36:27.900 --> 00:36:31.340 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: they shake off the experience.
00:36:33.480 --> 00:36:36.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then they go right back to grazing again.
00:36:40.790 --> 00:36:46.019 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because whatever trauma they've experienced, they don't hold on to it.
00:36:47.450 --> 00:36:49.920 They surrender to the moment
00:36:50.020 --> 00:36:52.079 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: they're fully present
00:36:52.100 --> 00:36:57.029 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: when they're in the middle of the the the life or death situation.
00:36:59.820 --> 00:37:09.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then, once they're out of that life for death situation, they shake it off. And now they're present to what the current situation is which is not life for death anymore.
00:37:12.990 --> 00:37:18.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it's so fascinating cause so many of us still think
00:37:19.210 --> 00:37:32.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we're living in the plains of Africa, running around. Well, there are some people still living there. But most of us in modern society are not living in the jungles, not living in the savannas in the plains.
00:37:32.630 --> 00:37:44.060 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Most of us are not in constant life or death situations. yet somehow our nervous system reacts all the time as if they are
00:37:44.960 --> 00:37:46.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: your boss yells at you.
00:37:48.370 --> 00:38:01.240 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You immediately go into a panic. Oh, my God, he's gonna fire me! And then I'm not gonna be able to pay my bills. And then I'm gonna and the mind goes on and we act as if we're in an immediate life or death situation. And we're not.
00:38:02.960 --> 00:38:05.609 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And it's so interesting
00:38:06.260 --> 00:38:08.809 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that when we stop.
00:38:09.930 --> 00:38:19.420 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: give ourselves a moment, and come into presence. We can ask ourselves, Is this a life or death situation I'm experiencing?
00:38:20.500 --> 00:38:27.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And the answer is almost always, no, it's not life or death. and then we can calm down.
00:38:28.510 --> 00:38:36.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and then we can be truly present to what's going on and receive the gift that we're experiencing in that moment.
00:38:37.510 --> 00:38:49.320 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But as long as we're activated, as long as we're acting as if, oh, my God, I gotta run. Someone's gonna kill me. Oh, no, I'm gonna die. Then we can't be truly present.
00:38:52.360 --> 00:38:56.430 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because the idea of annihilation of death is so
00:38:56.620 --> 00:38:58.550 challenging for us
00:38:58.560 --> 00:39:06.610 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to deal with. to be present to it is. is really takes a lifetime of practice.
00:39:11.930 --> 00:39:15.670 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So this is why surrendering is so important
00:39:19.920 --> 00:39:23.250 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and and surrendering in a way that
00:39:25.710 --> 00:39:27.290 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we give up
00:39:28.090 --> 00:39:39.109 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: on our judgements of the situation we give up on making something right or wrong, we give up on trying to figure out like, what do I do?
00:39:40.770 --> 00:39:54.459 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: You know when, when when I feel like II I'm not doing my best job, and or or my wife yells at me or my kids hate me. Say they hate me. What do I do
00:39:58.870 --> 00:40:00.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: in my experience?
00:40:03.330 --> 00:40:06.579 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: If we can hold the position
00:40:07.860 --> 00:40:09.700 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that life is perfect.
00:40:10.720 --> 00:40:15.770 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: it's not easy to do, cause there's a lot of things about life that sure don't seem perfect.
00:40:17.980 --> 00:40:22.730 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But if we can hold that in our consciousness that life is perfect.
00:40:24.050 --> 00:40:29.040 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Then we don't have to fix anything. We don't have to change anything.
00:40:29.660 --> 00:40:37.329 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: We don't have to go against the present moment, and we can surrender to what's right in front of us.
00:40:41.300 --> 00:40:44.779 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Sinai asks a good question on the live stream.
00:40:44.940 --> 00:40:52.449 she said. Can you ever detach and separate physical surrendering from spiritual surrendering.
00:40:54.430 --> 00:40:55.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Well, it
00:40:55.730 --> 00:41:00.380 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you see, it's not about physical surrendering versus spiritual surrendering.
00:41:00.610 --> 00:41:03.299 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's just about physical versus spiritual.
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:08.050 and in my
00:41:08.490 --> 00:41:23.369 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: hallucination, in my imagination. In my view of the way life works. we're spiritual beings. having a physical experience, not physical beings, having a spiritual experience.
00:41:24.460 --> 00:41:31.190 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: which means we came into this physical life to experience life and the juiciness of it.
00:41:34.000 --> 00:41:35.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Now.
00:41:38.110 --> 00:41:44.349 why would a spiritual being, why would this blob of energy want to come into this
00:41:44.720 --> 00:41:49.429 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: seemingly restrictive physical experience.
00:41:51.880 --> 00:41:54.590 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Well, I can't say, for sure.
00:41:55.640 --> 00:42:03.570 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: But over the years, over the 13 plus years that I've been doing my show, I've had on many psychics, many
00:42:04.070 --> 00:42:16.069 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: spiritual communicators. and they almost all say the same thing that, like in the spirit world. they can't wait to get into physical form.
00:42:16.860 --> 00:42:26.899 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because there's so much about life that we can experience through a physical body that if we were just a blob of energy that we could not experience.
00:42:27.290 --> 00:42:33.369 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: we wouldn't have the senses of of smell and taste and touch and sight.
00:42:38.710 --> 00:42:46.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So th the question is not really about detaching physically or detaching spiritually.
00:42:49.500 --> 00:42:52.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It's about surrendering and being present
00:42:54.800 --> 00:42:58.210 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because detaching is only taking us out of presence.
00:43:00.220 --> 00:43:12.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Now look II do not like experiencing pain as much as the next person. When when I go to the dentist they need to drill on a tooth I'm like, shoot me up with all the novocaine you can. I don't want to feel it.
00:43:12.800 --> 00:43:19.960 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and afterwards, even though I didn't feel it when they were doing it. And it wears off, and I'm all sore. I don't enjoy that.
00:43:22.740 --> 00:43:30.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I also know that that's my body telling me and giving me information.
00:43:32.760 --> 00:43:39.989 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and so I'll be present to it. If it gets to be too much. I might take some aspirin. I might take some kind of a
00:43:40.020 --> 00:43:42.960 painkiller, but really I don't want to.
00:43:45.290 --> 00:43:53.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: II want to surrender to the feeling miserable. because that's what am I experiencing in this moment?
00:43:55.190 --> 00:44:00.170 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And you know what? When I surrender to feeling miserable.
00:44:01.720 --> 00:44:04.460 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm usually not quite as miserable.
00:44:06.440 --> 00:44:12.209 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And then, when the pain goes away, and I'm no longer miserable. I feel so much better
00:44:13.200 --> 00:44:19.779 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because presence is a practice. Surrendering to presence is a practice.
00:44:22.300 --> 00:44:28.309 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So how do we surrender right? My title for the show is how and when to surrender.
00:44:28.550 --> 00:44:31.759 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Well, the when is basically all the time.
00:44:33.190 --> 00:44:37.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and the how is by just being present.
00:44:39.680 --> 00:44:43.660 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So how do we come into presence? Now look
00:44:44.370 --> 00:44:46.370 what I'm about to share
00:44:46.810 --> 00:44:54.190 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and actually, we we got a break coming up. So I'm gonna share it after the break. But but what I'm gonna share after break about
00:44:54.260 --> 00:44:56.480 how to surrender to presence.
00:44:57.840 --> 00:44:59.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm not saying it's easy.
00:44:59.780 --> 00:45:04.219 and I'm not saying you're gonna get it on the first try. And I'm not saying that
00:45:04.520 --> 00:45:09.819 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know, people who have complex trauma are gonna be able to do this.
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:18.959 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I'm just talking to my loyal listeners like Sonia, like Sarah, like like Jay, like
00:45:19.460 --> 00:45:21.910 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: like Patti like William.
00:45:25.510 --> 00:45:27.420 that we're capable
00:45:28.060 --> 00:45:35.470 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because we're not. We don't have such extreme trauma that we are very capable of surrendering to presence.
00:45:38.960 --> 00:45:43.830 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I'll talk about that when we come back and wrap up the show.
00:45:45.100 --> 00:46:04.710 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So please type your questions in the Facebook, live in the Youtube, live stream, or Twitter or Linkedin? Let me know what questions you have, and I'll try and get to them before the end of the show. We just got one segment left, so please don't go anywhere. Stay with us, and we will be right back
00:46:05.610 --> 00:46:11.130 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: finished talking about surrendering and presence in just a moment
00:48:03.270 --> 00:48:05.900 All
00:48:11.860 --> 00:48:15.530 the
00:48:18.190 --> 00:48:29.979 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: okay. Here we go with our last segment of the show, and And seniors made a beautiful comment. She said, right!
00:48:30.370 --> 00:48:41.509 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The presence is what excites the spirit to be one with our environment. It seems complex, but it's quite simplistic. We overthink the process.
00:48:41.800 --> 00:48:49.529 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Just go with it. You will find your flow absolutely scenario exactly. Now again.
00:48:49.640 --> 00:48:55.070 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: How do we surrender to the present moment?
00:48:58.560 --> 00:49:11.379 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Sometimes it can be as simple as just taking a breath. just giving ourselves some space to experience what's currently happening.
00:49:13.950 --> 00:49:25.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So if you would like to try this with me, just take a moment and close your eyes. If you're watching the video, just listen, but close your eyes. Don't. Don't do this. If you're driving or operating heavy equipment. Thank you.
00:49:26.930 --> 00:49:28.490 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Close your eyes
00:49:29.520 --> 00:49:33.560 and just bring your awareness to your heart space
00:49:34.170 --> 00:49:36.090 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to the center of your chest.
00:49:38.640 --> 00:49:42.919 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and just give a moment to feel
00:49:43.420 --> 00:49:47.889 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what it feels like to be there in your heart space.
00:49:50.590 --> 00:49:59.029 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and you might be having some thoughts and just let them go. Don't have to pay attention to them. I'm not saying you have to stop them.
00:50:00.860 --> 00:50:07.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: but if you just go internal for that moment and take a breath.
00:50:09.210 --> 00:50:16.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and with your eyes closed, just notice. Can you feel the temperature of the air on your skin.
00:50:19.170 --> 00:50:23.459 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Can you hear the sound of my voice in your ears?
00:50:24.840 --> 00:50:27.909 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe there's some background noise you're feeling.
00:50:29.370 --> 00:50:37.660 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Can you feel what it's like to sit in the chair. or if you're standing up, what it's like to have your feet on the ground.
00:50:41.820 --> 00:50:46.030 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and when you open your eyes, what is the first thing you notice
00:50:48.480 --> 00:50:51.149 bright, is it? Or how dim is it?
00:50:52.760 --> 00:50:57.400 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Is there a color that pops out to you more than another?
00:50:57.830 --> 00:51:01.079 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe white, maybe green, maybe black.
00:51:04.060 --> 00:51:08.360 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Just pay attention to your senses
00:51:14.020 --> 00:51:15.560 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: without judgment.
00:51:15.910 --> 00:51:19.109 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: without making anything of it.
00:51:20.160 --> 00:51:25.020 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: without even considering whether something is pretty or beautiful or not.
00:51:27.110 --> 00:51:32.329 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Just be present to your surroundings for a moment.
00:51:35.880 --> 00:51:40.109 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and by doing that we're surrendering
00:51:42.480 --> 00:51:46.579 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to our senses, and we're surrendering to presence.
00:51:48.730 --> 00:51:54.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Usually it's a lot easier to do it with her eyes closed. But you can do it with your eyes open.
00:51:59.170 --> 00:52:02.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because presence is not about.
00:52:03.850 --> 00:52:16.550 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What are you looking at? What are you seeing? Presence is about surrendering the judgment. the desire to change things that desired him
00:52:17.010 --> 00:52:20.369 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: be in a different place, or want a different thing.
00:52:27.710 --> 00:52:32.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So that's how we surrender. And there were many other techniques.
00:52:34.320 --> 00:52:38.119 I'm just trying to give you the simplest one
00:52:38.260 --> 00:52:41.370 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that you can use anytime anywhere.
00:52:43.380 --> 00:52:49.100 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: because if you want to be more present to your life.
00:52:51.140 --> 00:52:56.929 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: The most important thing you can do is to give space to it.
00:52:58.820 --> 00:53:02.189 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: to take a moment, to breathe it in.
00:53:03.280 --> 00:53:06.679 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Maybe you're having a conversation with someone.
00:53:09.280 --> 00:53:14.850 or you respond before you say a word. After they've just asked you a question.
00:53:15.640 --> 00:53:23.510 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: just take a moment to give some space. or you respond.
00:53:27.510 --> 00:53:38.619 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: And if you're being, if you're in the middle of being triggered. if you're in a heightened state. all the more reason to give some space.
00:53:43.140 --> 00:53:54.640 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know what what Tina said is so true. It seems complex, but it's actually so simple. But our minds love to over complicate things.
00:54:00.600 --> 00:54:04.350 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So if you want to surrender to the present moment.
00:54:06.280 --> 00:54:21.880 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Just focus on your physical senses. What is it like to be here right here right now. and just notice things around you in your environment
00:54:22.870 --> 00:54:25.520 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: that you don't normally notice.
00:54:28.650 --> 00:54:35.150 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Sometimes it's just decide on a color like red and say, Okay, let me look for everything that's red.
00:54:37.170 --> 00:54:41.479 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or sometimes it's about as a scent or a smell.
00:54:42.680 --> 00:54:59.900 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you know. Just breathe in. And what do you smell. you know? Maybe maybe you recently cleaned, and so there's a clean smell or a household cleaning product smell, or or maybe you have a house, plants or flowers, and you just warded them so you can smell the soil a bit more.
00:55:06.560 --> 00:55:18.079 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: or maybe it's about hearing and listening. You know, I live in an apartment building in New York City, down the block from a fire station and a police station.
00:55:18.150 --> 00:55:21.620 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I hear sirens all the time.
00:55:23.000 --> 00:55:27.469 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and sometimes it can be very unpleasant to hear those sirens.
00:55:32.970 --> 00:55:39.540 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and sometimes I may just wanna block them out. And if I block out the sounds of my environment.
00:55:42.590 --> 00:55:44.990 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: then I'm not truly being present.
00:55:48.500 --> 00:55:50.059 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So you tell me.
00:55:51.320 --> 00:55:56.760 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what do you notice in your environment that you don't normally notice?
00:55:57.930 --> 00:56:03.449 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: What do you see? What do you smell? What do you feel? What do you taste
00:56:06.310 --> 00:56:11.419 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: sometimes just surrendering to what your body is feeling in the moment.
00:56:14.480 --> 00:56:24.050 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: Do you feel hungry? Do you feel thirsty? Do you feel full? Maybe ate too much, and you don't need to eat anymore.
00:56:27.100 --> 00:56:29.120 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: just surrendered
00:56:31.440 --> 00:56:40.609 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and feel your body. And for a lot of us, that's a big challenge. We don't want to be in our bodies because of some trauma we've had in the past.
00:56:44.200 --> 00:56:50.699 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: It may not be that simple. or may not be that easy. but it is that simple
00:56:52.440 --> 00:57:02.679 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and yes, it's a practice. And what does that mean? It's a practice. It means the more we practice it the better we get at it.
00:57:04.200 --> 00:57:05.180 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So
00:57:06.500 --> 00:57:10.970 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: my invitation to you for the week is
00:57:11.980 --> 00:57:14.709 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: practice being present
00:57:14.750 --> 00:57:21.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: even in the unpleasant moments in life. and let me know
00:57:23.090 --> 00:57:39.069 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: what happens for you. What is it like for you when you're being more present to your life. and he'll come back next week. and you'd share on the on the live stream or email me and let me know.
00:57:39.180 --> 00:57:43.069 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and I'll talk about it before I introduce my guest. Okay.
00:57:43.180 --> 00:57:46.920 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you can always reach me at Sam, at the
00:57:46.940 --> 00:57:51.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: conscious consultant dot com.
00:57:51.760 --> 00:57:55.969 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So I really wanna thank you all for tuning in today.
00:57:56.100 --> 00:58:03.160 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: I hope something in this episode resonated with you. I hope you got something out of it. I hope
00:58:03.260 --> 00:58:06.370 there was some practice or some insight that
00:58:06.670 --> 00:58:10.750 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: you can use that can support you in your day-to-day life.
00:58:11.390 --> 00:58:20.149 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and of course, as always, if you missed any part of today's show, you can always catch the replay on talk, radio, Nyc.
00:58:20.330 --> 00:58:34.330 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: and or on any of the podcasting platforms. Apple, Amazon, Google, spotify Pandora Iheartradio. Wherever you love to listen to Podcasts, you can find the conscious consultant hour.
00:58:34.920 --> 00:58:41.159 Sam Liebowitz | The Conscious Consultant: So thank you all so much. Take care. We will talk to you all next week.
Talking Alternative Broadcasting
392 Central Park West Suite 17R - New York, NY 10025
Privacy Policy · Terms & Conditions
Thank You for Visiting TALKRADIO.NYC © 2022.
