Rob Dial

Does it sound familiar?

Have you done this before?

The crazy part about all of this is that none of the things that my mind was projecting into the future and thinking were possibly going to happen, none of them were actually happening in that moment.

My mind was creating a false future.

And my body was...

taking what my mind was coming up with and imagining the fake scenarios that didn't exist and feeling those feelings.

Like my body was reacting to those imaginary futures in real time.

My body was suffering over things that weren't actually truly happening.

I was still sitting outside in the sun with my coffee in a beautiful day, just looking to view my son and I just hanging out.

But because I've been doing this work now for 20 years, I noticed my body was shifting.

I noticed my mind was doing something.

And I noticed my brain leaving the present moment.

And so I noticed it's starting to drag me into fear, into uncertainty, into catastrophic thinking.

And I had this moment where I said, okay, hold on.

So I did what I typically do whenever I notice myself getting dysregulated or leaving the present moment.

I breathe in and then I hummed out.

And I did it for a few minutes and I closed my eyes and I tried to pull myself out of my head and bring myself back into my body, back into the present moment.

I could feel the sun on my skin.

I could smell the coffee.

I could taste the coffee.