How to be present with life's challenging experiences

Presence is a powerful term, but what we don't often understand is how much we are asked when it comes to the path that is becoming ever-more present to reality. In this way, I see presence less as a state and more as a process: an art and skill that is cultivated over time as we become more and more able to sense/feel/perceive and otherwise hold our consciousness with that which is arising in each moment.Today we continue to speak to presence by looking at those challenging times that life asks us to stay here, sensing/perceiving/feeling/knowing that which is challenging in the moment.Again, recognizing that this is a path/process as we move out of the modern way of things (a way of being that has us ever-reaching towards distraction, numbing, etc.) as we learn to feel into self. Knowing that it is in feeling into self that we become fully attuned to this world we are all part of.Listen to the related episode mentioned in today's podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2047846/episodes/16079777Listen to last season's episode on being present with those dark/painful/unpleasant aspects of reality: https://www.buzzsprout.com/2047846/episodes/14082246Join this winter's meditation program:Visit stillness.forestbody.com to learn moreSupport the showJoin me in Earth Embodiment Circle! The newest addition to the many ways you can join me in practice and in community. Learn more here.Deepen into practice in Membership - The Forest: A Library of Guided Meditations and Embodiment Practice. Learn more here.Read my Earth Embodiment Ebook! We Are The Forest: Walking an Embodied Path of Collective Healing: Read it hereDeepen your grounding: Practice Earth Embodiment with my free Deep Roots MeditationFind writings and deepen into guided practice on Substack or on The Mountain Mystic BlogFollow my trailrunning and mountain adventures: @katiethemountainmysticMusic: "The Beat of Nature" from Pixabay