The 8 F's to Stay Present and Enhance Your Life

In our fast-paced world, it's easy to get caught up in the chaos of daily life and lose touch with the present moment. However, staying present is essential for finding happiness, connecting with our inner selves, accessing our intuition, and aligning with our soul's purpose. 

By cultivating presence, we can enhance our lives and experience greater clarity, joy, and fulfillment. Happiness can only be found in the present moment. If you can’t be present you can't find happiness and I want happiness for you! So today I want to share eight powerful practices to help you stay present and harness the transformative power of the present moment.

1. Focus:

The first step in staying present is cultivating focus. With countless distractions vying for our attention, it's crucial to develop the ability to direct our attention intentionally. Practice mindful focus by setting clear intentions for your day, week, or even specific activities. 

When engaged in a task, be fully present and immerse yourself in the experience. If your mind starts to wander, gently guide it back to the present moment. By focusing your attention on the task at hand, you bring a sense of clarity, purpose, and presence to your actions.

Sometimes we can get too caught up in our heads but presence requires our physical body since we are in a physical world. So when you feel too much in your head, ground yourself by feeling your feet on the floor. Feel your legs and each part of your body and notice where you are physically in that moment. 

This is especially important for those of us that are spiritual. We tend to be out of our bodies a lot. Being grounded in our bodies can actually be more spiritual than traveling to other astrals. We are full beings so don't leave out your physical self!

2. Flow:

Flow refers to the state of being fully absorbed in an activity, where time seems to fade away, and you experience a deep sense of engagement. When you find yourself in a state of flow, you are inherently present. Identify the activities or pursuits that allow you to enter this state. It could be playing an instrument, painting, writing, or engaging in sports. By intentionally incorporating more flow-inducing activities into your life, you create opportunities to cultivate presence and align with your authentic self.

3. Feel:

To stay present, it's essential to connect with your emotions and be in touch with your inner world. Often, we get caught up in the busyness of life and neglect our emotional well-being. Take time each day to check in with yourself and honor your feelings. Practice self-reflection, journaling, or meditation to explore your emotions and thoughts without judgment. By acknowledging and processing your emotions, you create space for greater presence, self-awareness, and emotional well-being.

Not paying attention to and processing your emotions properly causes you to store them in your body. Then this causes you to over eat, try not to feel, or use substances to get unconscious so you don't have to feel the pain of those feelings. But that unconsciousness itself blocks out happiness. Feeling them and releasing them is the path to happiness. Most of the time it's much less painful than you think. And 100% of the time feeling them now is less painful then keeping them in to ruin and hurt your future self.  

It's way less painful to feel them as they come and release them instead of storing them, constantly feeling them and running from them, and inevitably causing them to come back with a vengeance much worse and usually at the worst possible time.  

So next time a feeling or emotion comes instead of numbing it or trying to hide from it fully feel it and let it out. Cry, scream, punch a pillow or do whatever you need to do to let it out. Sometimes just acknowledging it is all it needs to go away. When you don't acknowledge it, it needs to get louder and worse to get your attention so you do acknowledge it. 

So acknowledge it, feel it deeply, and then let it go so it can't get in your way any longer. When you deeply give into fully feeling it, it gets less powerful like using trigger points on a muscle. 

4. Faith:

Faith plays a significant role in staying present. It involves trusting in the journey of life, surrendering to the present moment, and having faith in yourself and the universe. Cultivate faith by letting go of the need to control every aspect of your life. 

Embrace uncertainty and surrender to the flow of life, knowing that everything unfolds in divine timing. Trust in your intuition and the guidance it provides. By having faith, you release anxiety and resistance, allowing presence and serenity to permeate your life.

5. Five Senses:

Our senses are doorways to the present moment. Engaging with them consciously can help you ground yourself and awaken to the richness of your experience. Take a moment to notice the sensations of touch, taste, smell, sight, and sound around you. Pause and appreciate the texture of an object, savor the flavors in your food, or simply gaze at the beauty of nature. 

By immersing yourself fully in the sensory experience, you can shift your awareness away from the past or future and embrace the present more fully. See everything like it's the first time you can see. See all the colors and all the little details around you. 

Tune in and hear all the sounds around you, not just the most noticeable ones. Smell any smells around you and dive into them fully. 

Feel everything you feel when you touch something or just the cold or heat or sensation of air in your skin. Feel how your clothes feel on your body. Taste everything and notice every different taste and sensation. 

6. Food:

We all have to eat but most people eat unconsciously and aren't present at all. Eating unconsciously enables us to eat more than our body should have, push down and ignore emotions (which as I said earlier will always come back later to bite us) and makes it easier to live unconsciously which of course blocks out true happiness. 

Eating consciously can also help with digestion and nutrient absorption. When you eat, really make that the sole thing you are doing at that moment. Take your time. Breathe in deeply and smell it. feel any warmth or cold coming off of it. Really see all the colors. 

Take small bites and cherish them like it's the only thing you will ever have to eat. Really appreciate it. Feel the textures. Be sure to chew thoroughly before you swallow. A lot of digestion problems are caused solely by not fully chewing your food so your digestive system has to do more work and slows down.

Make food an experience not just something you hurry up to get through. Focus on staying present and not tuning it out. 

7. Feel Gratitude:

Gratitude is a powerful practice that brings your attention to the blessings and beauty in your life. By focusing on what you appreciate in the present moment, you shift your energy from lack to abundance. Take time each day to reflect on what you're grateful for. It could be as simple as a warm cup of tea, having food to eat, a loving relationship, air to breathe, a roof over your head, having legs and arms to use, or the opportunity to pursue your passions. As you cultivate gratitude, you become more attuned to the present moment, recognizing the gifts it holds.

8. Fulfillment:

Living a fulfilling life is intricately connected to staying present. When you engage in activities that align with your values, passions, and purpose, you naturally experience a deep sense of fulfillment. 

Take time to explore what brings you joy and ignites your soul. Identify your passions and purpose, and make conscious choices that support their expression. By aligning your actions with your soul's calling, you infuse every moment with purpose and fulfillment.

If you need help connecting with your soul and knowing and living your purpose I can help you in a Soul Realignment Reading And Clearing. That info is here:

https://www.psychicmediumreadingsbykristine.com/shop/soul-realignment-reading

In conclusion, the 8 F's—Focus, Flow, Feel, Faith, Five Senses, Food, Feel Gratitude and Fulfillment—are powerful tools to cultivate presence and enhance your life. By harnessing these aspects, you can align with your true self, connect with your intuition, and live in alignment with your soul's purpose. 

Embrace each F in your daily practice, whether it's setting clear intentions, immersing yourself in flow-inducing activities, honoring your emotions, surrendering to the present moment, experiencing your senses and food, feeling gratitude, or pursuing a fulfilling life. Remember, staying present is a continuous journey, and by integrating the 8 F's, you empower yourself to live authentically. 

7 Tips To Help With Anxiety 

Anxiety can be so frustrating but it doesn't have to be a permanent battle. Here are some tips to help with anxiety:

  1. Stay Present


Anxiety can only live in the future or the past but not in the present moment. It comes when worrying about something in the future or because you haven't fully processed something that happened in the past. But it cannot live right here in the present moment.

So really be mindful to focus on this present moment and stay grounded. When you start to feel it, focus on your feet and see roots growing from them into the ground. Focus on your senses and on right now. Focus on what you see, feel, hear, smell, and taste right now. 

If you are having trouble grounding in the present moment, say out loud or in your head what you see: a blue couch, brown floor etc. And do that for all your senses for instance: I hear the dishwasher, I smell garlic from dinner etc. Really get yourself into this present moment and know you are okay in this present moment. You are safe. 

2. Fully process everything

Anxiety is a signal telling you about a possible danger. The thing is it's a little outdated from times when we needed that adrenaline and warning to help fight off danger like a tiger. But now it mostly warns us of our worrying thoughts and can make them feel like we have to fight a tiger. 

It also sends the signal to warn us when we haven't fully processed something from the past and that it's causing us trouble. If we don't fully feel or process something from the past it stays in us and just builds up and gets worse until we do. 

So it's so important to fully process and release things and not hold them in so they fester. Feel them fully and cry or scream or do whatever you need to do to get it out. Keeping it in and not facing it is what causes the worst anxiety and pain. 

Even though it may seem scary to fully feel and process whatever it is, in the long run it's so much easier and is less painful. Get it out of you, don't let it continue to build into a bomb inside you. You have the power to release it now, you are stronger than it, know that! 


3. Feel the anxiety fully


At first this may seem counterproductive because understandably all you want to do is numb it and get away from the anxiety feeling, but fully feeling it can actually help. It's like a trigger point on a muscle at first when you press it it hurts worse but after a bit it releases and feels better. 

Allow yourself to feel the anxiety feeling fully. Face it and feel it and again scream or punch a pillow or whatever you need to but feel it so you can release it and release its power over you. 

As I said before it's a warning signal from your body so if you just keep numbing it and ignoring it the signal will get worse and stronger in an effort to warn you. 

So feel that feeling deeply until it starts to release. Acknowledge to your body that you received the warning and it can stop warning you now. Feeling it and releasing it also takes away the power it holds over you and gives you that power back. 

4. Keep in perspective


Sometimes just reminding yourself of the bigger picture can help. Remind yourself that no matter what, you are living someone else's dream right now. Someone else could be dreaming to have food or clean water or to be able to see or walk etc. Focusing on gratitude for what you do have right now no matter how small is helpful.  

5. Let go of trying to control the outcome

Anxiety can creep its head when you are too focused on controlling an outcome. Take the steps needed towards what you want but focusing on trying to control every detail just causes anxiety and can block you from manifesting. 

Set your goals, take the needed steps, then trust that if it is in the highest and best for you it will work out. Plus the universe usually has a much better outcome than you can conceive of so trying to control it only limits you. So really focus on letting go a bit and trusting. 

Do what you can towards your goal and then let go and let the best outcome in. Stressing and trying to control it just pushes it away and creates so much anxiety. Let your spirit guides help you. They can't help if you are so focused on one particular outcome. 

So again take the steps needed then let go. Ask your guides for help and let the highest and best outcome in. Too much control blocks even better from coming through. 

This also goes along with perfectionism and or placing too high expectations on yourself that are impossible to meet, so be mindful of that. Be kind to yourself. We can be the hardest and most critical of ourselves so let go and give yourself some grace! You wouldn't be so critical of everyone else, give yourself that same grace. 

6. Change the feeling to excitement 

Oddly enough anxiety can have the same physical feeling as excitement just with a different underlying thought. So when you are in it, think of something exciting and try to feel that it is an excitement adrenaline spike  you are feeling instead of an anxiety/fear one. 

7. Be who you are at soul level

Living in a way that goes against your purpose and who you are at soul level will send up that anxiety alert as well. This is obviously different for everyone but could start off as staying in a relationship that goes against your purpose and who you are at soul level so your body is trying to help you see it's not right for you. 

Over lifetimes our choices have brought so many of us far from our true soul core. The anxiety is our body's way of telling us something is off and we need to make a change. So look deep and see if it is an alert that you need to align more to your true self. 

With every choice you make, ask yourself if it aligns with your purpose gift. Really get rooted in your true soul and live your purpose. Work on eliminating things that go against your purpose and who you truly are. 

That anxiety alert could just be telling you to get back to your true self so you can be happier and is trying to help you. If you don't know your purpose gift and who you are at a soul level yet I can help you in a Soul Realignment Reading And Clearing. That info is here: 


https://www.psychicmediumreadingsbykristine.com/shop/soul-realignment-reading

So overall stay in the present moment, be sure to fully process things so you can get them out of your way, feel into the anxiety to acknowledge it and release it, let go of trying to control every detail and be perfect, change the overriding thought to excitement instead, always keep the bigger picture in perspective, and always take steps to live aligned with your purpose and who you are at soul level in all you do. 

If you would like some more energetic help here is the link to my Anxiety And Stress Relief Energy Clearing Audio: 

https://www.psychicmediumreadingsbykristine.com/energy-clearing-audios/anxiety-stress-relief-energy-clearing-audio