Living The Most Epic Life - Part 1: Excitement

In this short and insightful talk, three tools are provided to the listener to assist in creating a new perspective and path. The ideas presented are empowering and encouraging to create the most epic life for themselves.

Transcript

Hello wonderful people and welcome to this mindfulness chat with Ashley Epstein.

I am from an organization called Shift Tribe and we are an organization that are based in Cape Town,

South Africa in the southern hemisphere of this beautiful world.

Shift Tribe is an organization that aims to raise awareness about the benefits of mindfulness on a collective as well as an individual level.

Mindfulness is a great tool that allows us to find that peace that naturally resides within us and take action from that secure comfortable centered space.

So we are an organization that operates in Cape Town,

South Africa and we host a variety of events centered around mindfulness.

We offer practices such as yoga,

Qi gong,

Meditation as well as various other mindful practices that people could resonate with and practices that will allow individuals to find that inner peace that resides within them.

So welcome!

This particular chat is going to be geared at discovering three tools that we can use in our everyday lives to live the most epic life,

The most successful life and the most fulfilling life.

Tool number one that we will be discussing today is the idea of the importance of acting on your passion,

Acting on your excitement.

And by acting I mean to take action on the things that truly make you happy,

The things that you know will bring a degree of fulfillment in your life that was not present before.

These actions are actually taken by us every single day of our lives to a certain extent.

But the other part of the faction whereby we do not take action on our excitement also exists and this is what I would like to address in this first point.

So first of all it's important to recognize that what we call passion,

What we call excitement and creativity are all energies that are integrative.

They are positive energies,

They are energies that make us feel good,

They are energies that make us feel energized and they are energies that allow us to fearlessly take action in the direction that we prefer,

Thereby experiencing a reality that is of our preference.

Let's take an example,

And I'm making this up as I go along,

But Bob here used to work at the café down the road.

Bob however is really passionate about creating wheels for cars,

He loves the idea of wheels,

He's fascinated by the history of wheels and the very idea that wheels in and of themselves were a great accelerator for our species a long time ago.

Anyways Bob is very excited about making wheels for particular cars,

However he feels that he is currently in a position where he needs financial security,

Therefore he is currently working at the café that he has been working at for the last two years.

He loves his job,

He has good co-workers,

He has a decent salary,

However Bob still feels this emptiness inside of him when he arrives at work and when he leaves work.

And Bob has been questioning this emptiness for a while and he's starting to realize that the café is great,

However he does not feel that he will be able to be there for the rest of his life,

And seeing as he's growing up and aging just like all of us,

Then maybe it would be a good idea to actually look at doing something that he loves.

However Bob's mind comes into the play at this stage and says,

Well this is a secure job,

If you try and go anywhere else you will not get as much money or you will not get as nice as co-workers as you have here,

Or you will simply not actually make it in the other job and this is the secure job,

Stay here.

Now this was Bob's mind or Bob's ego as we would call it,

Which is the defender,

The person,

The ego,

Space within ourselves that just want to make sure that we are all right.

The space within us that does not want to venture beyond what it already knows.

So the idea with this particular scenario that I've just described with Bob and his mind and his secure job however,

It not being the job or the play that he prefers to work on every single day,

Most of us find ourselves in these situations quite often in actual fact and the idea is that we know what makes us happy,

We know what would make us happy,

We know what our excitement is,

We are just afraid to move towards it because of what we would not have that we currently have.

So the idea is that obviously our minds cannot foresee the future,

Our minds cannot understand how things are going to work in the future,

But maybe it is not our minds job to do that.

Our mind is designed to understand what is happening here and now,

Not necessarily what will happen in the future.

Now one question I would like to ask you if this is you and you are finding yourself in this particular position at this time whereby you are in a job that you do not enjoy and you know what would make you happy,

You know where you could go but you are just slightly hesitant of moving in the direction because you know that you are secure where you are now,

Ask yourself this question.

You are currently doing something every single day of your life that is not your highest joy,

It is not your highest preference.

However you are still being 100% supported by the universe in doing that.

This means that you are 100% supported in doing what you do not love.

Who is to say that you will not be 150% supported in doing what you do love?

Now this is the question that I would like to ask you if you are finding yourself in this situation and the question that I would like you to ask yourself because it simply starts with a perception shift.

It starts with us changing our attitudes,

It starts with us discovering that there are new angles to view things and it starts with us actually taking action on these angles with absolutely no expectation and no fear of what could happen knowing that we are always secure and supported like we always have.

So the key for this part one of living the most epic life is to always follow your excitement,

Always follow your passion and always follow your joy.

This does not necessarily mean that it needs to be a career thing but simply in every single moment that you have the ability to choose ask yourself what is it that would make me the most happy right now?

What is it that would make me the most curious,

The most excited?

And choose that and do that to the best of your ability until you can no longer do it then choose the next most exciting thing and do that.

Simply put excitement and passion we could say are kind of the pathway that we have created ourselves to be in this lifetime.

It is the energy that leads us to where we know we want to be.

It is our higher selves signal to signal us that this path is the right path so to speak not that they are right or wrong but it simply is that that path will be more expansive for your own self.

So simply put follow your excitement,

Follow your passion and don't give in to the fears and the doubts and this is actually what we will deal with in part number two which is to deal,

To observe and to transmute our definitions.

See you now my friends,

Thank you for tuning in.

Reviews

Well presented fellow safrican

The jumpstart I needed! Excited to continue.

I took that leap recently and I am happy to say that I am experiencing 150% support in all directions. Living with passion and excitement every day! WD 🍯

Very important message here and well worth remembering. Thank you. 🙏