Not so long ago I was involved in a big house clean. For context, I live in UniMed Brisbane’s heritage listed stately home (usually called a Queenslander), which basically means it is a 2 story dwelling, made from timber, that has large balconies that surround the majority of the home. It is a large building covering around 1000m2 of living area, including over 10 rooms and is all white, so invariably twice a year requires a clean as part of its upkeep.
The very generous Steve Leca, who owns and runs a cleaning business, comes to assist us to conduct this clean of the outside of the house, along with his team and many from the Brisbane Esoteric Community. It is a really fun morning, with many hands making what would ordinarily feel like a huge job become a seamless and very achievable task.
Once the house had been high-pressure water blasted, and so that the white walls didn’t dry all streaky, we were asked to wipe down all the walls from the very top to the very bottom. This required getting up and down a very tall ladder in order to reach from the 12-foot-high roofline to the verandah.
Lesson in Conscious Presence
From the moment I started to climb the ladder, I could feel how important it was for me to take my time, ascending the ladder, each step with conscious presence. The circumference of the house I was wiping down was about 140 metres, so I was up and down the ladder approximately 70-80 times over a period of a couple of hours, climbing a ladder that was 2 metres tall.
Everything was wet, my shoes, the verandah, the ladder, the house walls, so each time I allowed myself to feel my feet, each time I placed my foot on the ladder rung, I felt my hands, the gentleness in my hands as I held the ladder and supported myself by holding the house wall. This enabled me to go about the process of what I needed to do, but with such an elegance, a joy and being completely present with my body.
In the past I would have jumped straight into the ‘doing’, the task at hand. What did I need to get done? I would have been up and down the ladder a million times without any awareness of my feet, where they were placed, how was I cleaning, what it felt like to be cleaning and more importantly, not even having a clue about whether I was present or not. I would have just been totally focussed on ‘getting it done’.
Blessing the House with my Movements
Setting myself up this way, being consciously present and connected with the cleaning task at hand, I was able to wipe down the walls of this beautiful house with such a grace and tenderness, I deeply felt how the house was then being blessed by the way I was moving and going about wiping it down. I felt the love in my hands and the quality of that each time I moved.
This felt natural because of the quality I live in and how I move each and every day, with grace and tenderness with myself – it didn’t just turn up the moment I stepped onto the ladder. Each day when I wake up, I feel with conscious presence the qualities I hold in who I am; when I am walking, it doesn’t matter where, I feel my feet and when I touch things, opening doors, picking up things during the day, I feel my hands as I go about these everyday tasks.
It is finding and holding conscious presence in these everyday tasks that has helped build a love and consistency within me, which I didn’t ever think I could. I had previously been overly anxious, a totally ‘in my head’ person, who continually had multiple streams of conversations with people going on in my head at any one time. So the exercise of cleaning UniMed Brisbane was an incredible marker for me to say, “wow, what a confirmation of my daily choices.”
I would not have understood and learned what I have without the dedication and inspiring work of Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine.
By Raegan Cairney, B Comm. Adv Dip Counselling, Brisbane, Australia
Related Reading:
Connection to Self through Conscious Presence
Self Acceptance and Appreciation brings True Presence
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The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
When we work in a group or a team, the work becomes much easier and more enjoyable, and we get through it so much quicker.
A powerful bridge that asks us to be more with our body, in our movements and actions.. And that in certain cases we are being obviously (physically) asked for it due for example danger to fall.. But what if we would apply the same conscious presence for every choice, moment , breath we take and all the actions we do? Would our world be in another state? Great to ponder on – and see our expansion possible.
I completely love the way Regan has explained quality and how working with it feels and is different. What I also love is the connection and honour of her home. What is shared here is not just for our homes or cleaning it is about how we hold ourselves and subsequently others in our every day.
” Blessing the house with my movements” how gorgeous is that, thank you Reagan for sharing the qualities you have built into your daily life by bringing in conscious presence lovingly into every movement.
What the process of cleaning can actually bring up – the brotherhood that is there for us to connect to and do and work together on things that serve greater purposes.. That is a love filled place such as the Unimed Clinic Brisbane where people come for a healing session.
And what’s great is that being consciously present in every movement does not mean moving at a snails pace. it simply means being aware of your body and the task and not being on auto pilot disregarding the very thing (your body) is doing for you.
What a gorgeous celebration of you Raegan, and the choices and life you’ve built. Very inspiring. I love how you describe how you connect to you and ‘the qualities I hold in who I am’ … not doing with first being, and knowing that it’s the being, the quality that imbues everything.
I love having company to do jobs. It makes light work of tasks that may seem arduous.
The power of bringing conscious presence into cleaning, it establishes a really lovely quality to the space we are in and leaves it feeling supportive for the next time. And with the appreciation of this it brings much more power to it and actually re-energises us – even after cleaning. Because the ability to appreciate is seeing that there are multi dimensions with us when we do something as simple as putting things away in the kitchen, but the appreciation extraordinary.
Conscious presence to me is a gift from heaven as when I am with my body in all that I do I can feel the delicateness of my body, how gracious it moves and how spacious it is. And in this grace I do feel to be part of a greater whole, the All that moves in this same grace and precision and in accordance with the plan.
You highlight a great point here Raegan about the power of our daily choices and how this supports us to truly evolve even in the most simplest of tasks.
Discovering conscious presence and choosing it is one of the most amazing gifts we can offer ourselves and everyone.
And Unimed Brisbane really does reflect and shine with the love that is poured into on and around it as is written about in this article.
Thank you Raegan, for sharing the quality we can choose to live with whenever we are in connection to our essence within. The more we choose connection, the more this becomes natural, returning us to our true way of being through which our presence is always a blessing.
It is amazing how what once was the worst chore of my life, is now something I look forward to in my day! I love cleaning, and even more, I love the feeling after I have cleaned 🙂
‘This felt natural because of the quality I live in and how I move each and every day, with grace and tenderness with myself – it didn’t just turn up the moment I stepped onto the ladder’. It is our livingness that we bring to all we do, beautiful Raegan.
For a start how many accidents would be prevented if we were all just a bit more consciously present in the tasks we carry out on a daily basis. I also find that even the most boring of tasks are far more enjoyable if I am able to stay present with myself.
Raegan a truly beautiful confirmation of the quality of presence and the power of the bodies true connection in every divine movement made. Thank you.
Conscious presence eliminates the thoughts that we are somehow incapable or unworthy. By definition it tells us who we are, and that we are a soulful being within a human body.
I used to clean in a rush and in a head space where I think I need to get a lot done but now, I am starting to clean with more awareness in my body, paying more attention to not using my body in hardness and a rush. It feels so different, the space feels clearer, things get done properly and I feel energised instead of feeling exhausted.
This is just brilliant. Truly inspired by the stillness and grace of your movements Raegan.
What you describe here is a living from the inside out instead from the outside in. Being in and truly living from the body, feeling oneself and enjoying ones moves. Being one with oneself instead of waiting for the outside stimulation to set you in motion.
I just came back to read my own blog and can feel how much of a blessing (and reminder) I have had for myself, to always come back to the quality of our daily choices. Whether thats make the bed, brushing our teeth or putting away the dishes. Everything reflects everything.
When we are aware of how we are moving whilst doing our clearing out or cleaning there is a marked difference in the quality of the space we have just cleaned – you can’t help to look at it and appreciate what you feel several times. Whereas when we clean with our minds elsewhere the section just cleaned becomes just another finished chore.
It is interesting to hear people share how they do their cleaning on a set cleaning day or vacuum every fortnight leaving this day to get the job done. What you have shared here Reagan is how when we take responsibility with our conscious presence it becomes our natural movement in all that we do so that the cleaning can be done each day, rather than waiting for a given day to show the detail and care of how we can live.
A great reminder Reagan to be in conscious presence in everything we do. I love the way you describe the process involved in this house cleaning and the blessing brought about through your gentle consciousness.
Reagan you remind me of the gentleness we naturally have as children, and how we move with so much tenderness. Your beautiful photo and all of your words all express a return to those natural qualities we are born with. Your blog is also a confirmation of our divinity and multidimensionality – by just being ourselves we bless everyone and everything with every movement.
This is lovely to read, about grace in movement during every day tasks. Because there are no boundaries to having grace in movement, it is available to everyone, all we have to do is choose it by remaining aware of our bodies and how they are moved, and grace will be there.
When we do any task with all of ourselves it transforms it from being a maybe small menial task into a re-imprinting with love. So powerful! Hence it doesn’t matter what we do, but how.
This makes me consider how much we autopilot our day. I can relate to just getting the job done and in that way not really being with what I am actually doing. It’s like at the point you are getting it done you are already partly in whatever the next thing is to do. You run yourself like this and crash at the end of the day or week. I remember people talking to me about lists and how no matter how many things are on your list and how many you do there will always be more. So it makes me wonder then is it all only about quality? We place a lot of pressure on ourselves with time and quantities of things we need to get done but more and more things are there and yet time goes the other way, there is never enough. This places a constant battle within ourselves between the number of things to do with the limited time but what if all this wasn’t true? Not the fact of the things or time but what if our focus on them wasn’t true, what if it was a distraction from where we truly need to be? What if it is all about our quality, as the article presents. I mean think of driving and how many times you have left your garage and driven down the road from your house. You possibly do this without a thought and could do it with your eyes shut but does it make sense to just do something or if we are going to do the same thing over and over wouldn’t it make sense to have the focus on quality? To me things and life have made greater sense when my view is towards quality and not just doing.
Being a cleaner myself, one thing I am so appreciative of is the consistency cleaning has offered me. If I am not present with my movements, my body gets tired the day is long, and the quality I feel when finished is not the same as I know it could be. It offered a micro view of how my life can be in all areas if I was to hold consistency, presence and connection. Knowing that it is all one life, I’m offered a marker to bring everything too. What an incredible blessing.
Part of my weekly work routine is cleaning where I work – I love it, the quiet when the building is empty apart from me, an oppotunity to give back to the space and care for it and in turn every person who walks through.
I love the power of people coming together, working for a common purpose but each responsible for the quality they bring to the task at hand. When we don’t turn up for ourselves, we don’t turn up for the all, denying everyone the importance of who we truly are and what we can offer.
You could very easily clean an entire house checked-out or distracted, thinking about other things, stressing, worrying, getting frustrated etc. and the job would still get done, but what you’ve illustrated Raegan is the difference in QUALITY of the clean, something that affects everyone who steps foot in or lives in the home, when we are consciously present and really get into the flow of cleaning service!
Reagan I love the detail and conscious presence you were in whilst cleaning the house, the house now holds a loving imprint for all to be blessed by when they enter the home.
Choosing to be fully present with ourselves in what we do brings in such a joy and enjoyment in moving with ourselves, and everything that we do, is literally blessed by that natural loving quality that we are moving in and with.
How beautiful described Reagan and like you’ve explained it has been the consistency in your daily choices that made your amazing work on that day possible. Whatever we do, the quality of our movement comes first before anything else.
When we are consciously presence we quite literally feel and appreciate each step in what we are doing and don’t get caught in the wave of, and flurry of activity of, the doing.
A lovely example of what and how we’re living directly affecting our every movement which in turn directly affects the impact we have on our immediate environment and those around us.
How beautiful it is to live in this conscious presence and how harsh the world feels when we lose it and just do for the sake of doing.
Giving our 100% to any given tasks unlocks possibility not consider when doing them in auto pilot.
I have recently been having a lovely time addressing some pockets of clutter still remaining in our home. It has been a joyful experience choosing to remain in conscious presence with my body and how this changes how my hands feel working with the job being actioned. The quality in the house feels more harmonious as I walk in the door.
“I felt the love in my hands and the quality of that each time I moved”.
When we bring all our attention to all that we do, with appreciation and enjoyment for every sensation, how could we want to skip this or check out? This blog and your words Raegan have helped me realise that every moment can be like a jewel in my life, if I just stop and cease my running around.
I spent some time cleaning today and found myself enjoying what I was doing. Simply being fully content with where I was and what I was doing. Is this not amazing, as it is very easy to want to get something like cleaning done and onto something more fun. As you share Reagan, when we are with our body, everything is enjoyable.
Reading about this dedicated and delicate cleaning makes me realise I can bring this level of care to my body too. Just as you step with conscious presence in your tasks Raegan, so too can we apply this to all that we do. I love washing my face with absolute stillness and can feel, just like with Unimed Brisbane and you, this quality truly shines though.
When we are present with ourselves as we do the jobs in the house, we observe the tiny details which changes it from a chore to a joy with the quality we are working in. And the result is great confirmation too.
We settle sometimes for streaky marks on the windows, scuffs on the skirting board and blotches on the couch. Yet when we take the time to clean them out, it is remarkable how good we feel. So your words remind me today Raegan that I needn’t ever settle for bits of life that stick and mark. My body and feeling about the day is transformed when I choose to step forward and clean it all up.
This shows Reagan, how we can bring the quality of our conscious presence through and with what we do everyday, how such a task that can be otherwise be seen as something mundane or boring becomes a joyful expression.
We all have experienced performing an act or task we brought super care and loving attention to. Whether it was tying our son’s shoe lace, preparing our daughter’s lunch or stroking the hair of a loved one, these moments seem to slow down and transcend time. What stays around is the care we feel, but what if this sense is not restricted to one-off events, but can actually be lived and enjoyed with everything? Your words here Raegan remind me there is nothing special or ‘more’ valuable in this world, except the Love we can bring with conscious presence and appreciation in every move.
Conscious presence, an absolute gift and blessing as presented by Serge Benhayon. And after re-learning it and applying it to everything I do, I remembered that it is the most natural thing and is always waiting for us.
Wow that is a big job so to be able to do it without impact on your body is testament to how you look after yourself.
” Blessing the house with my movements”
What a beautiful way to bring love to our homes by moving lovingly and tenderly.
” Blessing the house with my movements”
What a beautiful way to bring love to our homes by moving lovingly and tenderly.
Feeling the joy of conscious presence in our everyday tasks is a gorgeous confirmation of our choices.
Raegan, your blog is such a lovely confirmation of all the choices you had made up to that point when you put your first foot in the ladder. No going into ‘cleaning mode’, simply you bringing all of you lovingly, to your day. Very inspiring.
One of the things I love about our student body is that there is such a willingness to come together to support each other when this is needed, like cleaning the house. This means it is not just left for a few and is loads more fun doing it knowing that there is plenty of help.
it really is an extraordinary feeling when we come out of our heads, back into our bodies, and start to have a congruent connection between our bodies and our hearts our minds and our movement.
It is easy to settle for a certain standard of quality in your life, as we do with cleaning where we say ‘thats clean enough’. But when it comes to conscious presence and the Love we can bring to everything, there is no half-way house, or ‘just enough’. In my experience, anything less than the full package leads to a lot of a mess in your life. Thank you for the gorgeous inspiration Raegan to continually bring this care and quality to my life.
Not only is conscious presence of help to myself, my health and flow of life, it supports – by way of reflection – all around me to connect to their innermost. In the end it is a way of connecting humanity.
Imagine the power and harmony of blessing other aspects of our lives with graceful and fully present movement.
I love when I bring full attention to my typing. It is gorgeous to feel my fingers gently touching the keys, it feels graceful, super feminine and enjoyable …. I’m not tempted to go into ‘drive’ mode when my I’m aware of how my fingers touch the keyboard.
‘From the moment I started to climb the ladder…’ Embracing responsibility and the opportunities on offer in each moment is a really life changing way to approach my day – this article is a beautiful point of inspiration – thank you, Raegan.
Staying so aware of all your movements whilst cleaning clearly dispels all the usual mind chatter and brings a beautiful quality to the activity. Thank you for your lovely conformation of the joy of conscious presence Raegan.
Raegan, what a great change from the racy you focusing on ‘getting it done’ to the one who now does the job with quality and presence. As you say, presence ‘didn’t just turn up’– it is built by consistently practising conscious presence and when we do anything in this quality it does ‘bless the house’.
This example of cleaning a big house over a day in conscious presence is a great example of what happens the more consistently we move and live this way. From the first choice to be present, there is a domino effect that keeps expanding and making it easier and more natural to stay with your body. Without all the distractions of our thoughts and life, that’s when feelings like joy and lightness can be felt.
I find it amazing how conscious presence can turn a rather monotonous job into something enjoyable. Feeling my body as I move, I am always surprised by what I find there – and it’s fascinating to delve deeper into that feeling and let my body run the show instead of my mind!
I love this big old house that has been so well cared for. The ornate high ceilings, the wide halls, the massive detailed windows and just it’s sheer size overall. What is also striking is the colour it’s painted, it’s like the perfect colour for the house, classical and yet modern, soft and yet sharp. I have only visited it once but the memory is like it was yesterday and the feeling has stayed with me. It’s great there are people living there taking such great care of such a piece of history. You don’t see houses built with this detail and quality anymore. This house wasn’t built to a budget or from a kit, it was truly built for people to live in it and so everything was done with that in mind and it’s grandeur is there from the moment you see it from the street.
WOW the photo here of where you live is marked with the care and love that those living there take. How gorgeous to see and feel. And how you are able to explore conscious presence is certainly a gift.
How beautiful to put so much energy and presence into cleaning your home. I know that cleaning is still one of the things that I avoid or delay, but once I am actually cleaning I love it, and everything feels so much clearer and lighter when it’s done, including me! If I focus on the quality with which I am cleaning and also the purpose and focus of the task I feel great in my body while I’m cleaning, so why would I ever try to avoid it?!
I just have to echo some of the gorgeous comments already here – what you describe Raegan is the enormous gift of caring for the smallest detail, tending lovingly to the little things and in doing so, there is nothing mundane, there is only grace in every movement that we make which has a ripple effect on everyone and everything.
I had never really understood why I enjoy particular tasks such as cleaning, hoovering, painting (not the arty type) ironing etc. and yet now can clearly appreciate that when I do these things in presence and bring quality to them I imprint them with this. Amazing to feel that how I iron my shirt the night before can help support me for the next day etc. This all gives a whole new appreciation of the significance of those who sweep our streets.
What is evident from this blog is how when we bring conscious presence to a task the quality and what is left behind and felt changes. As well as our attitude to doing it. Cleaning for me, I have always seen as and felt as the same as doing a massage on a body so it makes sense why ‘how’ I am doing it matters.
With conscious presence the most mundane tasks can become a true blessing for all and oh what a gift for whoever is on the receiving end of the tasks receives.
A great opportunity to practice the dedication of conscious presence and to see first hand the importance of such focus in each step and moment. Nothing like 70+ trips up the ladder for conscious presence training to bring awareness to our movements.
What this shows me today is that we can do something when needed. For example, going up the ladder consciously as it had an element of danger. But what you have explored here, is that we can actually do this all the time if we look at the quality of energy in which we run our lives. If we build up overtime, self-care and self-love, and bring in more tenderness and delicateness (even typing these words brought in more delicateness) then we can bring in more conscious presence into all of our movements and not just the ones where we ‘know we need to’. Because in reality, we need to do it all the time. The world needs to be graced and blessed by us being full present in our actions.
I used to find cleaning the house was such a bore, because it gets dirty again quite quickly, and I was always doing it fast because I wanted to be somewhere else. I checked out of me as I checked out of the cleaning job. What you describe Raegan, blessing your house with your movements, shows me that Everything has a purpose, an importance and gives a reflection. We want everyone to feel the Love we feel in our homes, therefore we can imprint that as we clean, what a great purpose that is.
I use to put really loud music on and dance round when I cleaned, I suppose we all do our own odd things when we clean our house! What was always more challenging though was staying with myself, off my phone and allowing the feeling that may arise while I clear out the house to come up without any distractions.
This photo of the house is spectacular, I love looking at it, for me it says a lot about how it is cared for, it shines bright. Cleaning is not just a matter of the physical act, it is how we do it that matters, the quality we are in.
Being in conscious presence makes chores that would usually be considered by most unimportant, suddenly become a joy to perform.
Recently I have started walking up and down our street as its the only place I feel safe to do so as around the block is not desirable. What this has revealed has been an amazing opportunity to be consciously present as I walk as the scenery is not changing per se so my focus is not on where I am going but rather how I am travelling. I am yet to walk the 1min one way without checking out but am enjoying the experiment and the reflection it is offering me.
This feels like a playful way to commit to developing a relationship with being present in our days. The simplicity of the same morning route and therefore the commitment to attending to the quality of travel.
I can feel Raegan how much you blessed the house with your movements in conscious presence, and I can feel how we bless all other spaces when we are in connection with our bodies and all the wisdom and grace that flows through them.
“wow, what a confirmation of my daily choices.” This resonates very much with me as lately I can feel how much I am being confirmed by my choices to deepen my self-care and self-nurture, and it feels awesome.
I love this blog it confirms the fact that we are never “just” cleaning – because “everything is everything” our movements are always communicating something so much bigger.
Focusing my mind in line to what ever I am doing is a moment to moment discipline that has supported me to not be so checked out. I was heading towards dementia before I put this into practise. It would have either been dementia or the nut house!!
When I hold myself in conscious presence I observe that I am also held supportively by the people around me. No wonder that you get so much support with your task of cleaning the house! And yet, it IS a wonder, a wonder of God.
Every single time I choose to be with my body and ground the quality of movement from that held connection, it brings a new appreciation of who I am and what life is about. Our connection to our bodies the most simple ongoing revelation to enjoy. So natural to us as children and so foreign as adults, it really does expose the complexity we have made life into.
Every single time I choose to be with my body and ground the quality of movement from that held connection, it brings a new appreciation of who I am and what life is about. It is the most simple ongoing revelation to enjoy. So natural to us as children and so foreign as adults, it really does expose the complexity we have made life into.
What an amazingly supportive way to feel and be in our bodies – carrying out this kind of physical task. In the past I had no awareness of the importance of the quality I move in, now though as I live in a way that is much more conscious I feel I am living life much more responsibly.
This blog keeps on coming back to me. Just with the beautiful way that Raegan tends to her home without putting any strain on herself. It is like she is living the responsibility of quality of life in and through the form of life, through objects and tasks, never forgetting that the quality of her presence is what makes all the difference. Beautiful to read and such a pleasure to appreciate.
It is quite amazing how much we can achieve by staying present with ourselves and what we are doing, and at the end be vital and energised… so opposite to the ‘doing’ in nervous energy when we end up exhausted and don’t achieve a great deal! Conscious presence is a whole other way of being in life that is truly inspirational.
Great blog. It reminds me to be consciously present when I am working on the computer as well.
Thank you Raegan. I am amazed by how joyful you are doing such a huge job. Many would find a task like that overwhelming and would avoid doing it at all, letting the dirt stay where it is. I have seen many grand homes deteriorate and become ramshackle as a result.
It is clear that Unimed Brisbane is held with great regard by all that live and work there and it feels like you blessed both the house and your own body with every move you made while cleaning it.
I just love the feel of this amazing house – it emanates clarity, love and true care. It sparkles!
Recently I have noticed how very little I am going into my head and the feelings of anxiousness disappearing. I feel a lot more committed and focused on what I am doing but need to be more present with how my body is feeling and the quality it is in.
Thank you for sharing Caroline. I have come to a point where I have realised that the only way to deal with the busyness and anxiousness I feel is to become more aware of the way I feel rather than less. Up until now I have chosen the short term comfort and numbing offerrred by food and drive. Raegan’s post shows that investing in our awareness every day can lead to profound changes.
I relate to your old pattern of ‘get the job done’ which has very much also been mine. What I have found is that when I drop the ‘doing’ and am more in the ‘being’ of the activity ie being very present with myself as I work and moving in deep appreciation of my body, the workload feels so much lighter – my lightness of being is reflected through my work which becomes a joy to do.
Your insight Raegan offers us a whole new insight into taking responsibility for how we live – and for how we enjoy life. I have spent my life wanting to get the housework ‘done and out of the way’ of me enjoying life, rather than allowing myself the time and space to connect and see how self loving it is to create a space to support me as I live life to the full, appreciating myself and what I bring when I take care of myself and my home.
“Each day when I wake up, I feel with conscious presence the qualities I hold in who I am; when I am walking, it doesn’t matter where, I feel my feet and when I touch things, opening doors, picking up things during the day, I feel my hands as I go about these everyday tasks.” The quality that you talk about here Raegan is almost tangible, and is something that I too have come to know through learning to be consciously present with whatever I am doing.
The house does indeed look blessed. How lovely that a team of you worked together cleaning it. When we work together the whole amounts to more that the sum of the parts.
I really enjoyed reading your blog Raegan as it is such a great confirmation that doing any task in conscious presents makes it far more enjoyable and less of a task. I have many jobs that can be repetitive and a bit tedious but staying present with it is just so much better.
I agree, you often gain rather than lose energy.
Since reading this article, I have marvelled at the significance of, ‘up and down the ladder approximately 70-80 times over a period of a couple of hours’ and been inspired by the reflection of commitment, consistency and presence – this is like exercise, developing fitness in being present and open in every day life.
I have been so inspired by this blog and have been very aware in how I move with my body in the past few days. I am starting to feel a deeper appreciation of who I am rather than focusing on what I do. Thank you for writing such an inspiring blog.
Thanks, Raegan. I love the way you describe the relationship you now have with your body, as I can feel how much joy there is in being present with every little movement and detail.
“It is finding and holding conscious presence in these everyday tasks that has helped build a love and consistency within me, which I didn’t ever think I could.” I love the simplicity which lay in your insight Raegan. That there are not only the big things in our lives we have to change but also the small and simple everyday things that in truth are changing our way living.
Beautiful to read Reagan I loved it and a reminder that every time we move with presence and tenderness it is building into life a consistency that leaves a loving imprint with all that we do.
there is nothing like getting up a very tall ladder for inspiring conscious presence ☺
That clinic photo looks AMAZING, so bright, clean and inspirational! It captures everything you share Reagan when you talk about imprints being left on places.. this imprint full of presence and zing…like it’s speaking to you through its grand communication!
Our lives are full of cycles that are there to help us develop and grow in our relationship with ourselves. Whether it be repeating an action every day or once a year, these repeated or familiar tasks can be great confirmations of how far we have come and also markers of what is still to learn.
Being present with what we do is so important with allowing us to bring the right quality through. When we do something new, or something that requires an extra amount of focus, it is like we are almost forced to pay more attention – just like you Reagan with having to focus more with the wet floor and shoes and wet everything else! It is kind of like when we learn how to ride a bike for the first time or learn to drive the car, every moment has to be focused on how we do it. But then when you get the hang of it, so many of us would begin to ‘check out’ – lose the focus, and go on autopilot. We may laugh about this and shrug it off, but the actual auto-pilot mode can be super detrimental – for this is when many accidents happen, but more importantly so, it is when we switch off to the quality that we bring to what we do. Reagan you talked about being very present in your cleaning, but more so you talked about being very gentle with every move. This is the quality that is then felt by anyone and everyone that walks past the house, that people feel when they step up onto the verandah. We do get to be blessed by someone presence and actions in gentleness, hence the power of being with ourselves and choosing to do things with a quality that supports all around.
Your story is a beautiful sharing Reagan. I have never been to UniMed House in Brisbane, but I have no doubt that the quality in which you and others have cleaned the house, the same quality in which you live every day can be felt by everyone who not only enters UniMed House but those who drive or walk past it. A quality that is lived day in and out emanates out and is a blessing for all to feel and see.
Thank you Reagan, what a difference it makes to bring conscious presence, as you have done, to everything daily. Focussing on the quality of your walk and how you use your hands building the consistency and stability so that anxiety does not play out. It is profound the effect these simple changes can bring. I too had very bad anxiety which focussing as you have on conscious presence reduced this right down so it is now only occasionally rather than all the time.
I read this blog this morning and then spent the day presenting at a conference where I was left to pack up on my own. The level of conscious presence in the process left me feeling steady and not in an exhausted state as I moved chairs and tables at a steady pace. As I left the venue I turned to check that I had left everything as it was and realised that I was leaving an imprint for the next person and people who would be using this space the following day.
Natalliya, this is beautiful, for we do leave a space for someone else to come back to and how beautiful is it when we have taken the care to leave the space not only looking lovely but feeling cared for and respectful on all levels.
There is a huge awareness you are claiming in enjoying being consciously present while doing jobs. Instead of missing the chance to just enjoy the experience by being in haste or resentment, you are allowing your self to feel the flow…. and the blessings are multiplied for you and all those around you as well as the recipient of your consciously present care.
love your sharing Reagan. It would have been a real lesson in conscious presence especially because everything was wet increasing the chance of slipping. It just goes to show that working is about quality and not getting as much done in a small amount of time.
There is so much to appreciate in what you have described here Reagan, living in constant connection to our quality within brings a reflection of the love where we come from for all to feel, thank you.
When you describe building conscious presence here Reagan I can feel that it so much more than just being attentive and mindful. Rather it involves a a flow of movements which we bring all that we are to.
“It is finding and holding conscious presence in these everyday tasks that has helped build a love and consistency within me, which I didn’t ever think I could.” – this is such a great confirmation of the love and consistency you have built in your life Raegen and something to deeply appreciate.
I agree. It gives us the best chance to stay aware throughout and that feels particularly nice. Whenever we wander off in our mind we can simply come back to our physical activity.
This is gorgeous. Doing physical work with conscious presence is very fulfilling and often great fun just feeling the continuous nuances even when the work remains very similar.
Your house looks amazing. And how wonderful that you all come together to clean it. A true community project!
It is those ordinary things in life that we do that either evolve us or keep us stuck. A simple clearning job can, as it has with you Reagan, bring great insight and awareness.
This is a great confirmation that they way we live does matter and can make a huge difference to everything we do – even cleaning.
It is amazing how, just looking at the picture, it is possible to feel the precision and the tenderness with which this building has been cared for, the feeling is exquisite.
Wow, quite a task at hand to clean and wipe down this large, intricate, beautiful building. The togetherness and connectedness in which you all worked shows what can become simple (with ease) when there’s a common purpose and a willingness to connect and work together.
Conscious presence and feeling the quality of every movement offers a new way of being, instead of being driven by the mind and its ideals and beliefs which do not even consider the body and often abuse it.
Mastering the art of conscious presence with the body takes work – we are so used to living ‘from our heads’, with little or no connection to the body. As the awareness deepens, everything changes – the way we move, walk, stand and sit, the body is treated with more care and the re-building of inner confidence and a solid inner foundation becomes a reality.
The light and splendour of this magnificent building is shared by so many through the presence and love of its care and dedication to cleaning it by you all so lovingly coming from connection and true purpose . A sparkling reflection for all and very beautiful to read.
Raegan, it is very beautiful to read this article, yesterday I cleaned my house but I could feel that there was a drive and raciness of ‘trying to get it done’, the quality that you cleaned the Unimed Brisbane house in is beautiful, this is very different to just ‘getting it done’ and leaves a loving imprint, next time I am cleaning I will be more aware to feel my feet and hands and be consciously present and so grace my house as I am cleaning.
What you have shared with us Raegan is awesome, from being so anxious and mind driven to re-claiming your innate grace and tenderness through the quality of your movements and choice to stay present in the moment. This is the hallmark of Universal Medicine, a quality that is felt in so many who study and apply the ancient teachings as presented by Serge Benhayon, a Master of Living Grace.
The joy you write with Raegan comes shining through as you share the quality of how you worked in full presence whilst cleaning and that this was a reflection of the quality you live every day.
When we are present with ourselves, and enjoying making our homes clean, it feels nurturing on the inside and the outside. This then changes from being a chore needing to be done into being a daily rhythm of flow of life.
This is a great reminder for me – I may feel fantastic after a session or a workshop, but it actually is my everyday choices that builds, confirms and develops how much true light and love I can reflect to the world. It is all about my commitment in taking responsibility.
I love how clocking in when we are doing a physical task confirms the choices we have been making recently. When we are connected and still, simply enjoying the process and space with no time pressure and so on it suggests that leading up to that point there has been a natural flow in rhythm – however if unsettled and not so present there is a confirmation that there needs to be a deepening of loving choices or that something is coming up to be looked at and dealt with.
Reading your inspirational blog was so timely as yesterday I decided to wash down the front of my house, a wee bit smaller than yours Raegan; thank goodness! But even so I approached the task ahead committed to remaining in conscious presence as much as possible so I would not place any undue strain on any part of my body. What I found was that even though I loved the feeling of being totally with me as I hosed and washed, quite often I would find myself thinking about something and that lovely connection to me would be lost and I would end up cleaning on automatic pilot. Instead of giving myself a hard time when I did I just made the choice to return to being present and as a result the task that often leaves me tired and sore had no ill effects on my body, and my house, even though I only washed the front, already feels so light and fresh.
When we are conscious and present it brings a whole new meaning to everything we do. I have to say cleaning and especially washing up did not used to be something I liked doing, now I am learning to be more present and not just check out wanting it over I am starting to enjoy it. Some days I love cleaning and washing up and this all depends on my choices in how I approach it.
A necessary ingredient to the true art of cleaning is love.
Conscious presences is definitely one to keep coming back to, the way we can build it into our every day as you say the way we feel our feet on the ground, the way we close the door or how we brush our teeth… With so much going on in the world and things that we need to get done being able to keep your presences in the moment and feeling the quality in how we feel and move is something that I know can deepen and deepen.
You highlight how important it is to be consistent with our conscious presence, not just for this job or that job but every step we take in between, so that by the time we get to our next task, we are already present and ready to go with tenderness and care.
The house in the photograph looks like new, it is literally shining with the love, blessing and joy it was given.
That is awesome Raegan thank you for sharing. Something I have learnt from Universal Medicine is that it is not what I am doing but how I am doing it. And so any job or task no matter how small or meaningless can have purpose and because of the purpose is enjoyable. Without something having a point or meaning then yes it can be dull but as soon as you appreciate and look at the knock on effects what you are doing is having – it makes sense and suddenly a ‘dull’ task becomes fun!
Very inspiring to read this Raegan – a beautiful confirmation of how important it is to bring conscious presence to all our movements and then every move we make will be a blessing – playing in the fields of the Lord.
The photo of the UniMed Brisbane clinic is so so gorgeous. The feel is so deeply stilling and holding. A clear (!!) testimony of the conscious presence and dedication to love. Thank you dearly.
This is awesome Raegan. I too have been someone who has always been ‘in my head’, and whilst I still very much operate in that way, slowly but surely I become more and more aware of my movements all the time. Thank you for being more proof that it is possible to develop conscious presence with everything.
A gorgeous blessing for the house, and awesome confirmation for you Raegan… your grace and loving care will be felt by all who stay and visit UniMed house.
I’m so impressed with how many people are willing to help clean such a huge house, and not only that, twice a year! I love the very fact that many hands make light work. Whilst perhaps not intended, one of the things I’m taking away from this blog post is that it’s ok to ask for help, and that those seemingly huge tasks are absolutely achievable when a band of people come together, and effortlessly at that!
This is beautiful Reagan and so true that our daily choices is what builds the foundation that we then meet every moment with. I can relate to often being driven by mind to ‘get the job done’ regardless of how body was feeling, actually with no awareness of how my body was feeling or if I was aware, disregarding how my body was feeling. Whereas now I have discovered that being present with me and my body, there is another far greater intelligence to be guided by. Through choosing to develop a loving and honoring relationship with myself and my body I now have a marker of what is loving and what is not, and as such am guided more and more by my body to move in a way that honors this love within.
I read your blog yesterday and throughout my day I often thought of what you’ve shared Raegan. I have known about the benefits of moving and working in conscious presence for a while now but often I forget and don’t choose to connect to my body in this way. So, yesterday, I noticed every time I chose to be aware and chose to be in conscious presence, I felt this warmth inside and it felt lovely. I realised by choosing to be in connection to my body in my movements, I let go of any distractions, doubts and overwhelm. Being in conscious presence brings much more focus and joy in what I do and my day. I am able to be more aware of my body and connect to how I feel. Also by allowing myself to feel my movements makes choosing to be in gentleness and tenderness with my body much easier.
Very inspiring Raegan. We have the opportunity at every moment to be completely present with what we are doing and be joyful in our every activity.
“it didn’t just turn up the moment I stepped onto the ladder” A great reflection that the quality we live, is what we bring to everything we do.
I have moved many times and a few years ago I was cleaning a unit that I had lived in for 9 years to move into a house. It was the first exit-clean that I had done since coming across Serge Benhayon and after discovering the whole world of energetic quality. When I have done an exit clean before, it was definitely in the energy of ‘just get it done and do it good enough to get the bond back’. This time was different, I could feel the call to clean the house in such a loving way that I was saying thank you to the house for the service that it provided me and to prepare the house for the next person. To leave a loving imprint for them. And as I was doing that, I thought what if everyone cleaned like this, to lovingly prepare the house for its next inhabitants. It was an incredible marker as you say Raegan.
“I would have just been totally focussed on ‘getting it done’.”
Before i met Serge Benhayon every task had a beginning and an end – it felt functional and dutiful – today my focus is brought equally to all parts in the middle, my life is less compartmentalised more steady and in this infinitely more harmonious.
I remember spending many years of my life in my head with little or no true openness to what my body was truly saying to me. I now know myself and my body so much more and realise the greatest joys in life is simply living from what it is sharing in a way that is truly loving and honouring for all. It makes even the simplest and mundane of tasks such as cleaning the house so much more fun!
I love how the cleaning was shared within the community and that in working together in presence and in support of each other, there was a natural flow, rhythm and magic beyond the physical actions of cleaning.
I can feel how the house must have been absolutely gleaming and smiling inside and out after you had all finished this wonderful spring clean. Anything we do in this loving manner fully with ourselves feeds us and everyone else back a thousand-fold – great investment and way to live and would solve the world issue of exhaustion.
I love what you highlight here that you didn’t just suddenly switch on being very consistent and with yourself when you were on the ladder, it was something you had built up over time in your daily living choices. It shows how each little choice matters and how it builds on top of what has gone before. Thank Raegan.
We go for an job interview today to see if we will be care taking a small neighborhood. I feel this article is a timely confirmation for me, that I too can bring blessings with the conscious presence I’ve been developing, into all that I do.
This world is so crying out to be touched with loving presence and with true care; it is high time I start being the love I feel and know is missing in our lives, in our communities and in the world.
The more I live it the more I know that developing presence and self love is for everyone and it is the power-full healing we all need.
It is true Raegan that being present with your body can feel Amazing and the simplest of tasks can be very playful and invigorating.
What you describe feels like being in ceremony with the task of cleaning this beautiful house – a celebration of it and of you and your movements all at once.
Exquisite that you enjoyed cleaning the house, there is no burden in your cleaning for sure, only blessings.
What I love about this sharing is that you come together as a community to help each other and naturally then enjoy the time spent together. To come together as a community without any dire need due to disease or disaster is something very rare in our (western) society and yet it is something so very supportive and makes life joyful. We are not alone, there are so many helping hands always willing to help. We all have that naturally within us.
Great point Esther too often we wait for a disaster or disease before coming together as a community or even coming together with ourselves as in conscious presence. No need to wait we can always live that true and joyful way.
Cleaning I once really demised even though I was really good at it and organizing and ordering. Now, it’s part of my weekly rhythm. It’s a part of my commitment to life and myself. As Raegan expresses it is so very confirming and provides a solid support in the way I live. Cleaning is so great for your health and wellbeing.
This is so beautiful Raegan – “Each day when I wake up, I feel with conscious presence the qualities I hold in who I am”. How wonderfully joyful life can be when we connect to the body and qualities that then emanate out to be shared with the world, just by simply being ourselves.
Wow for a start what an amazingly beautiful building and what a pleasure it must have been to be able to clean such a building with such love and presence. I’m not great at staying present with myself as my mind still has a tendency to wander but when I am consciously present my day is so much more enjoyable and I often wonder why I choose otherwise.
It is great to bring focus to our whole day and our every movement – bringing conscious presence to all that we do.
It’s amazing how even the simplest things, that we could ordinarily think of as tedious, can turn into something that is extraordinary. You can come and clean my house any day Raegan!
There is nothing like being present in all that we do whilst allowing a surrendering quality. There is an exquisite openness and settlement in the body that releases anxiety and held tension. Feeling this change from tension to openness is heaven in my view!
I found, when I am focusing on the end result, on the outcome of my actions – like in your case, have it clean – instead of the moment I am in, like feeling my feet while I am claiming a ladder, I have accidents and the missing presence brings in a emptiness which is at the end also reflected. But when I bring me, my focus into the moment I am in right now – the outcome is guaranteed as in how much love I am living. Because we are love and if we live it, then we bring this love into our movements and so into the action we do. This is felt afterwards. There is a fullness, a light that does radiate and inspire others. So, no matter what we do – how we do it is the key.
Gorgeous blog Raegan. Cleaning with conscious presence re-imprints the whole house. “It is finding and holding conscious presence in these everyday tasks that has helped build a love and consistency within me,”
Conscious Presence – when this was first presented to me, living from my head, the two words didn’t compute. As if the concept of what conscious presence is completely alien. The only way I have an understanding of it comes from my feelings and living from the quality of these feelings and taking my movements into account. Being in my head, moving to mental pictures and ideals I am rough, bump into things and tire easily. Being consciously present is being with my feelings, how my hands feel as I type, how my body feels walking slow or fast etc. I feel more calm, steady and able to handle what life brings even if it is opposite or ignoring of the mental ideals I have held onto.
It makes such a difference choosing to stay with the body instead of purely focusing on the task at hand. By staying with the body we can focus on the quality with which we are choosing to move, and therefore the quality in which things will be done. It makes a difference to our own body and a difference to everyone else.
I had a similar experience recently when we were closing down a business premises and I had to spend 10 hours cleaning and redecorating it to prepare it for the next tenants moving in. I did feel a pressure of time to get it finished, and if I allowed my mind to wander or went into this, then I felt my whole body tense up, especially my right arm and my body started to ache and become sore. When I let go of this and just came back to my body (which I had to do many times) my body felt completely difference and the soreness and tension was not there. As a result my body managed to complete this large task with much less soreness than it would otherwise have had.
Raegan as someone that spends a lot of time in front of a computer screen it can be easy to phase out and not be present, I am working on it but what i also love is when I get the opportunity to do things like cleaning, real practical stuff that feeling very fulfilling and nurturing of my body. What I can really see though is that its the conscious presence that I love most and to bring this to each moment will further change everything for me again.
It’s quite easy to go into all the jobs we have to do in our busy lives and do them all superficially, only to have to repeat them again properly. I used to constantly flick the dust away in my house, but brought that superficial quality with that action. I am learning the quality of all we do brings a reflection so when we focus our attention on something like cleaning, we can apply that focus of importance to everything we do and it is felt by everyone who comes into contact with us.
Having conscious presence when we’re cleaning or doing things around the home allows us to appreciate the space we’ve designed for ourselves to live in and how this area can support us.
If I am out, conscious presence is only one breath away – I am back in my body within a fraction of a second – that’s a sort of medicine that is there on offer for free for everyone. How much less would we burden our health care system if each of us claimed this medicine.
It is a daily practice, I love that we are supported with moments that confirm us along the way and how we are steadily returning to a way of being that is present with the All.
“Everything was wet, my shoes, the verandah, the ladder, the house walls,” This alone is an accident waiting to happen, all it needs is for our attention to wander and one slip. What is really awesome here is that you weren’t taking this level of care in order to avoid an accident, there is no anxiety present. It is very evident that you were taking this care in honour of a quality you have been re-establishing within your self and within in your life that imbues the environment with a precious graceful love, that special ingredient that leaves a lasting shine where ever you go.
I have found that conscious presence is like Scalextric slot cars. Most of my life was about motion, and the challenge was to push the forces of nature to go as fast as I could till I would come off the rails and crash. Every day started a new race that had become just part of the normal rat race most of us have experienced. I now have a conscious presence in everything I do, which will always be a work in progress. Life is no longer a race for me. It is a journey with myself.
Beautiful, Reagan. What a confirmation, indeed. Our daily moment by moment choice does count and conscious presence is a fantastic way to build a foundation which very often reminds me that not consciously making choice is already a choice.
Tasks that appear huge and daunting “become a seamless and very achievable task” when many people join together to tackle it. What a joy it will be when humanity works together for humanity rather than at war with each other.
Beautifully expressed how we can bring stillness into our everyday movements and duties and how this changes the energy of everything around us. Stillness is what transforms and leaves us joyful and not exhausted.
We tend to give certain jobs more importance than others but this is a lovely example of how being present in every moment supports and benefits us. From a practical point of view, I can imagine the potential for many accidents with everything being wet and slippery.
Reagan, a powerful life metaphor of how to make the seemingly mundane and a routine into something much more just by how we are. You imprinted the building with love, beauty, grace and light and this choice is open to us in every activity and each time we meet another.
Raegan, I love the symbolism of you climbing the ladder in conscious presence with wet feet in order to get the job done. We are here on Earth to ‘get our feet wet’ so to speak in order to arise (as symbolised by the ladder) back to a way of living (as symbolised by the house) we departed from long ago but that still lives within us all. In order to re-turn to what once was lived, we need to prepare the surface (clean, purify, remove the mud) and tend to our physical form (our ‘house’) so that we can live in-full, the truth of who we truly are.
I agree, Otto… the switched on moments give me a sense of alertness and space in my body that then inform the next moments… the switched off moments seem to shrink me and time.
So simple and so practical, Raegan, you have made our being present and responsible for the quality we live in every moment a totally every day thing. You have also addressed the fact that no task is more important than another; they all deserve and require our equal attention and care.
It is so beautiful to read and to feel the delicateness that comes with being conscious present as you described being cleaning the house. There is such a grace in being conscious present that to me I can say it is divine and is a way of bing that is so urgently needed being seen and experienced in our everyday life, to share this way of being and inspire other people to connect to it as well is a way to return heaven on earth.
This was really lovely to read Raegan. Appreciation of yourself and of how far you have come is so important in confirming the power of the choices you have made. You are indeed the end result of your choices and the quality you then blessed the house with.
Very inspiring Raegan especially as I am about to move house. I am celebrating you too and the glory of Unimed Brisbane having so much love poured onto it!
Building conscious presence is something I am aware I need to be aware of every moment as I still find myself slipping away with the fairies and need to check in with myself and bring myself back regularly throughout my days.
This is a valuable reminder of how easily we can bring a living quality to all that we do through every movement we make. I also found this a little exposing as I know that I do not have this commitment all of the time and can slip back into the ‘doing’ fairly easily in certain situations.
Michael it’s so great to read about the “living quality” you speak about, because it keeps things simple. Being present with what we are doing, taking care of our movements is something we all have the power to do. Yet I am with you in the fact I don’t use that power all the time and the question is why.
The space you created by being consciously present with the cleaning and your body would have been so much more enjoyable and alive, compared to running yourself ragged, being unfocussed and in your head and racing against time.
Yesterday I was supporting friends to move house. Such a big day and I was tired at the end of it, however the quality of movements and the way in which everything flowed was without a doubt due to the love and care with which we held ourselves in each moment throughout the day. A great reflection Raegan!
I like how you describe that you didn’t have to try to be graceful or tender as such because these were natural qualities that came out when present with your body in what you were doing…
Wah feels amazing Raegan, washing down the house, feeling the rinse effect and joy of how that all feels – just reading it makes me feel fresh, clean and not just the water blasting but through movement too. Wonderful.
I can feel the blessing for the house, for all those who visit, the local community, the city, the country, the planet, the Universe we know and all those we don’t. “Nothing is nothing and everything is everything” as a very wise man had said on more than one occasion.
I love when there are many people involved in big projects, how much more seamless it feels to work with others to get things done.
I loved reading what you have shared here Raegan. Yes I was very good at getting the job done, but to feel the quality shift when you are connected to your body and every move you make, well there really is nothing better.
Great point Rachael. I have been in my head so long it sometimes feels impossible to be free of the constant chatter and distraction I create in there. Raegan’s sharing reminds me that living from my head is a choice that I make when I refuse to check in to my body and I can just as easily choose to connect and be consciously present in my movements.
When I look at photographs of Unimed Brisbane I can feel the amount of love and dedication in every wall as a result of the way people live and work there. I felt this the very first time I visited this place around 6 years ago too. Thank you for providing this profound insight into Unimed Brisbane and conscious presence Raegan.
Absolutely inspirational Raegan, beautiful name by the way, and what a different learning for us all, to come from presence, our own connection, and not just our minds (that we know so well). Thank you Raegan for being who you are and showing how to move from being present with yourself (in connection).
I love how being connected to ourselves can change everything we come into contact with. Things just feel so much more alive when I’m present with all of me!
Absolutely awesome – the house and yourself are blessed to be with each other.
Thank you Reagan for sharing your experiences. To me you’re sharing that building conscious presence is not something we do in one day or in a short period of time. It’s a daily commitment – moment to moment – that slowly builds the movement of conscious presence. You’re a shining example of the light and love we are and can choose to be with.
I can really relate to what you are saying about conscious presence Reagan. I have struggled with rampant thoughts and inconsistency in my life. With the help of Serge Benhayon I have become aware what conscious presence means, how to develop it and how it helps build self-love within me and consistency in my life. It is of course a work in progress but a path so worth going down.
I chuckled when I read how you explain about the gorgeous way you were while working that “This felt natural because of the quality I live in and how I move each and every day, with grace and tenderness with myself – it didn’t just turn up the moment I stepped onto the ladder.” My pattern in the past has been to want to focus on the things I put more value on and ignore the other areas of life, and hope that I can deliver something very special in those areas. However you are do right, it doesn’t work that way. I can see that all the careless and neglectful behaviour in other areas start to creep into the ones I want to be amazing and if I am being amazing then I will take that quality everywhere and into everything I engage in.
There is a current trend for ‘mindfulness’. But what is really required is ‘bodyfullness’ – wherein the activity of the mind is totally in sync with the body and its movements; where the mind is not doing one thing, and the body another as is so commonly the way. Thanks to Serge Benhayon too for this pearl of utter wisdom.
‘This felt natural because of the quality I live in and how I move each and every day, with grace and tenderness with myself – it didn’t just turn up the moment I stepped onto the ladder.’ – everything offers a reflection and this activity offered confirmation of the love you bring everyday to your livingness and to others. It is gorgeous how something so ordinary and possibly a task that could have been viewed as burdensome was transformed into a loving confirmation of who you truly are.
I had a similar experience in the garden with a mountain of mulch to be spread over garden beds, it also involved a steep driveway. I was present to the movements I made with each load and 80 or so trips left no sore or stiff muscles, but a deep appreciation for the energy chosen and the movements that supported the body deeply, definitely a marker of the support we are offered through a body in connection.
Conscious presence changes everything. We can either go about our days in grace and flow as described here, or in tightness and driven-ness. What quality would you want for yourself – and everyone and everything you touch?
Its in these actions that we feel the quality of how we live, and when we don’t we got to ask the question why. Life is about constantly learning and reflecting about how we are in our everyday activity.
Beautiful to read your celebration of the choices you have made to be in conscious presence – very inspiring! Conscious Presence seems so simple on paper, yet it’s quite a challenge to master, especially with the drive we have to “do” and the endless thinking that distracts us away from the body.
I can feel in reading your wonderful sharing Raegan how conscious presences blesses us all in the everyday movements that are essential in our lives.
It is a pattern to be consciously present in the body – as it is a pattern not to be consciously present in the body. One pattern needs to be learned and repeated thousands of times to get it right, the other pattern is innate. Which is which? It is easily seen in babies. They are absolutely in conscious presence, innately so.
It is so easy to launch myself into a task, especially if there is a lot that needs to be done and I agree Reagan, to come back to conscious presence and be with myself in each movement takes the rush and the pressure out and makes the work so much more enjoyable and such a blessing. It is something we do not get taught but we really should talk about this more as in fact this way of moving decreases anxiousness, sleeplessness, exhaustion and so much more.
Hello Raegan and it’s great to see the power in the simple tasks. Often we see mundane or every day things as not important or because we’ve done them before we don’t take much notice of what we do when we do then. It’s only when we get to the ‘more important’ things or something we haven’t done before we choose to step back in and regain a focus. What if as you are saying Raegan that everything is everything and so how we are in walking up a ladder will have an impact on how we are everywhere else. There is no on and off switch, behind closed doors, in front of a camera, in the car or in the bedroom it’s all apart of everything else. It is only us that think we can divide the world up when in fact we know it’s not true. Go figure that one out, we act in a way that allows us to see that Monday is Monday and doesn’t effect Tuesday and yet even at school we are taught and shown that this isn’t true. More and more we are all talking about these facts and more and more people are opening back up to the facts. No matter what you are doing the important thing is to have you in it, in other words be conscious of what you are doing even if it’s only walking to the car it’s all important.
I have found the Esoteric Yoga Modality truly supports a deeper connection with my body and gives an opportunity to feel what it is like to move in ‘conscious presence’ with our body. http://www.esotericyoga.com
Doing any task with conscious presence, being aware of our body and the quality of movements we make brings back the joy in simplicity. It is lovely to feel and appreciate all you are sharing from your experience Raegan.
Inspiring Joshua, I am learning to clean with gentleness, joy and conscious presence. I notice recently how easily I go into hardness and a push to get the job done when it comes to cleaning. This blog and your comment is really inspiring me to bring connection to myself first in all my movements and tasks. Understanding and knowing the imprints my movements leave behind reminds me to continuously check in with myself, the quality of my movements and my thoughts.
Thank you Raegan for sharing your joyful experience with us. Cleaning will never be the same again, by taking the conscious presence way that you have shown us, we can all experience a connection to our bodies that in turn is reflected in our homes.
Brilliant blog Raegan, it shows how we move can be healing or harming, ‘Blessing the House with my Movements’, so, when we move with conscious presence be it in cleaning, cooking, working, communicating or getting from A to B we have an effect on the space, objects and people around us with our every movement. This inspires me to be so much more aware of what I contribute energetically, my choices and my responsibility to move in a way that is a blessing.
A joy to read Reagan, it is about bringing ourselves to all that we do, this is what makes life simple, from moment to moment. and when we lose ourselves we can start again going forth, it is called the Way of the Livingness.