Since a couple of months now, my inner voice has been saying a phrase to me when I get overwhelmed, or when I feel like the moment is going too fast and I want it to last.
“Ground down into the moment.”
I think I picture my legs and feet rooting into the ground. Or some sort of energy from my body turning into a pillar or a tube, and then grounding, like electricity. I don’t know what I picture exactly, only just how it feels, to hear those words.
Ground. Down.
This moment, this place I am in, these things around me (tables? chairs? food?), these other people sharing this moment (my son? my boyfriend? my family? my co-workers?)... what are they? Pay attention to them. Pay. Attention.