The Presence of Dog

Hello, my friend. Welcome back to the Dogs and Men Podcast. I am glad you're here. This is the show where you learn to let your dog lead. Lead you back to love

Oh, hey, you guys, I cracked myself up. I do it all the time. Sometimes I mean to sometimes I don't hope you're doing awesome. Awesome. Awesome. What do you think about right now? And right now? In right now. So what I'm trying to get to is are you present? Right now? And right now? And right now? What the hell am I talking about? We get so stuck in wherever we're at. Whether it's replaying stories of the past, right, so and so doesn't like me, so and so said this, so and so did that, you know, I'm not diminishing our emotions or our feelings, just the fact that we get stuck in them. We also do the same thing with the future or future cast all the time. You know, when, when I do this thing, or have this thing or accomplish this thing. I'll be okay, or I'll be happy. And it's so crazy to me that most of us get stuck. They're not calling you crazy, just just the idea. We're I mean, we're we're raised that way we're trained that way society and culture tells us that we do certain things to be certain way. And a lot of it unfortunately, is based around, you know, material goods or wealth, trying to look good to other people or for other people. And we project all this stuff out there. And we spend so much time energy, love emotion, to try to do this other thing so that we'll get someone else's approval. We'll get love from somebody if we can behave a certain way or, or show up a certain way. You know, I've got nice shoes. I've got a fast car. Hopefully my buddies will think I'm cool. I mean, it's insane.

So I wanted to talk about being present. It's hard. We aren't trained to do this. But you know, who is that freakin furry, four legged Zen master next to you. And if your dog isn't right next to you, go get your dog and have them listen to this as well. You'll see them just nodding, smiling, wagging when you look at him like Aha, I've been trying to tell you. So. So what is this? What is this presence being present? It means just being right here. Right now, no matter what's going on, who you know, we're still gonna have thoughts that come in and out. And I'm not saying turn this into, you know, deep meditation, sit on a pillow and stare at a candle. But think about it for just one second. How can you be present for just one second, we need to train ourselves this way. Our dogs do it all the time. So here's an example. Your dogs in the backyard laying in the grass, eyes closed face turned into the sun. Just being there not worried about making the rent or impressing someone else with their awesome laying in the sun skills, or the fact that they can just stop anywhere and take a crap on the lawn or sidewalk. I mean, that's unfiltered. I freaking love that. I've never tried it myself. But you never know. So, back to your zen master. What else what other things do they do? Where they're just being? You know, maybe you're just sitting on the couch and they're just being there with you. Just being they do it all the time. They're trying to teach us that we can do that. We can be that as well. We can be present. And sometimes we are we don't realize it. But we can be there. What other times your dog is starting to show you. Oh, here's one of my favorites dog hanging out the side of the car, ears flapping gums flap and sniff and like crazy and nothing else exists. Right? If they're not stressed about, you know, Oh, I gotta get out of the car to pee or I wonder what time I'm going to be fed today. There's nothing else but that moment. Again, we can get to these places.

Sometimes we're present in a way that doesn't benefit us. But we're in, we can still be in that moment where nothing else exists. Let's say, a situation at work. A co worker, really riles you up. Now, you're present in your emotion. But you're not able to maybe see it for what it is, you know, there's anger rushes up, right? Oh, you feel the doing and you just want to owe the frickin guy I want to. So what can you do with that? Well, I'm glad I asked. So be in it. Right? You don't have to go off on the guy. You don't have to spend the rest of your day perseverating about it, but be in it and just spend that moment. Maybe go outside for a few minutes at God. Why do I get so riled up? Right? Why do I let that guy get to me. And here's the thing, guys, it's all about you, you were making this all about you, but you want to blame the other person for doing something that gets you fired up? Well, that's all our crap in there, they just happen to provide us with an opportunity to look at it again. So be in that feel that stuff, man, gotta get that shit out. But you can't get it out if you don't allow it to come. So that's just Yeah, that's so powerful. And it's so amazing. When you get that gold, you dig down, unfortunately, someone may help you dig down to and let something come up. That's gold. This is the stuff we were never taught to deal with. Right? We just get pissy and angry and blah, blah, that freaking guy and I want it these days, I'm going to Well, let's shift that a little bit. Look at that a different way. What can you do with that, that's being present. That's allowing whatever it is to come and be with it. So sometimes we need to practice with something else though.

So let's go back to sitting in the sun. I love to go by the river. Right? There's, I live in Fort Collins, Colorado. And there's a pooter river here Plu. Dre. And that's awesome. And it's amazing. And it's beautiful. And there's cool spots where you can walk right to it. And I can just sit and be right into go and I go, we'll go and hang out and just be right. She's cruising around sniff and having a good time. I'm staring looking for the Eagles nests up on the cliff above. That's just amazing. And in that curious moment of just being nothing else is going on. I'm not worried that my partner is upset with me. I'm not worried about my relationship with my dad, I'm not worried about all these things. I can just be present. It takes practice, is once we get a little quiet, those thoughts start to come creep back in. So sometimes I'll tell myself, no, not I'll talk to you guys later not dealing with you right now. And I'll allow myself to continue to be and it's fantastic. But it's a practice guys. It's like building a muscle, you got to do it again and again and again. And you get better at it as like any skill. You have to build that skill. So what does it mean for you? How can you be present? Maybe you're listening to this and you're you're busy doing other things more, stop whatever the frick else you're doing and sit down and just just listen. You know, these are short, guys, this is easy to consume. Just sit, close your eyes. And maybe you start this over and listen to it again, with a different perspective. Open yourself a tiny bit more. Because this is not just information. These are things and ideas and practices that can help transform your life. Right. I try and make things fun. I want people to be entertained somewhat, but this is important stuff, right? And if you don't like it, that's okay. You know, I wish you well. But if you want to learn a different way of being of showing up in the world, and realizing how amazing you actually are and that you are lovable, you are enough and you can create a life of freaking massive awesomeness then yeah Try and be present. Play this one again. Close your eyes. Just think of something beautiful. Oh, wait your dog. This is simple stuff, guys, but it's not easy. Let's create that. Let's create some simple, beautiful, loving moments. All right. If you like, share, subscribe, leave a review or not. I'll get back with you soon. Love you