Could you make one interaction today or tomorrow more personal? This can be someone you don’t know very well, but it can also be someone you live with and know “inside and out”. We have a list of responses we tend to pull from with general interactions and we also tend to apply this in deeply practiced routines with our close family and friends. Is it possible that you are using the same responses for a number of situations? Is it also possible that you could tailor what you say for the person in front of you in a particular moment?
If you’d like to make an interaction more personal, you’ll first need to bring your attention to the present moment and a good starting place for that is your breath. Match yourself to the rhythm of your breath, slow the breath down and let that stem into slowing your mind and steadying your attention on the person of your choice. Notice the way your breath feels in your body and how it feels to be living. There is energy inhabiting you and it’s up to you how you will spend that energy. Try sending that energy out to embrace someone. That would mean that both you and whoever you decide to share your energy with could feel nurtured in this visualization by your attention to being fully present and making yourself available to a conversation with your entire being – your eyes, your ears, and the energy of your whole body available to connect. No one but you needs to know about the imagery if you choose to try it. The person across from or next to you will know, however, that you are absolutely present with them and that you aren’t just handing out hollow responses and advice that you may also share with a hoard of people.
Think about what would happen if everyone took time to whole heartedly connect with another person and the flood of good feelings that would bring about. You can lift one person at a time and that can do a world of good!
Presence and Positivity 