Participant: I’d just like to get your feedback on resistance.  I firmly believe that everything you’re saying would be true for me if I practiced being able to have moments in my day where I would be still. 

But I cannot understand why I’m having such resistance to being able to step outside my momentum, basically, and take that time.

Marlise: We have grown up in a world of human doings; we are doing machines.  I know, I was one of them:  I can make it happen.  Just give me the project.  What I discovered is that there is efforting in that, which doesn’t give you a lot of joy.

As I moved into greater connection, I discovered so many miraculous events occurring in my life that I realized, it was actually a waste of my time to move straight into action if I was in a doing mode. I would have to make lots of phone calls to make something happen - whereas if I began from a place of connection, I would be inspired which were the best calls to make;  I usually only needed to make a few - and all of them would be in the flow of what I was creating.   People would call me, even before I could pickup the phone to call them.

So the first awareness is to notice is when you’re feeling agitated - when you’re [in] doing, there’s this pumped-up, high energy, 20-espresso thing going on, and at the same time, there’s a part of you—getting very stressed.   You can feel it.

When you’re in the middle of things moving too fast—like the phones just won’t stop ringing — just go shut the door.  Five minutes.  That’s all you need.  Watch what happens.  Within seconds of doing the Three Breathe Awareness, things begin slowing down, and inspiration comes in - you feel your connection to that state of presence growing.  You will love these short breaks more and more.  pretty soon, you’ll only need to breathe deep a few times and you will be surrounded by the miraculous, where all your actions happen from inspiration; synchronicity is all around you, the stress you used to feel has become a memory in your past.  You will end up taking time for this more and more – it makes life so much more fun. and it works.