Today I was doing an online spiritual coaching session and something came up that I thought would be very useful to many of us. We all strive to keep our energetic vibration high and live in the present moment rather than worry about what the future may hold or keep going back to the past. Or at least, that’s the plan, but sometimes life gets in the way and we feel lost and stuck in a routine of overthinking and creating worst case scenarios rather than enjoying what’s unfolding right here, right now.

So how can we fully live in the moment? By savouring every experience, big or small, as it happens. We all look forward to the big events: holidays, weddings, trips out, birthdays, the occasional red letter days that we anticipate and prepare for, sometimes for months or even years ahead. We tend to take the small stuff for granted, it’s just there, part of life, and we don’t give it the credit it deserves. How often do you really enjoy a cup of coffee that hits the right spot, or a gin and tonic that’s mixed just how you like it? And how often do you acknowledge that enjoyment? Hardly ever probably, because it’s a regular part of your day.

Well, here’s the thing. Everything in your day deserves to be enjoyed and appreciated as it happens. Yes, even the small stuff. There’s no better training for living in the moment than taking the time to appreciate everything as it happens. In short, Expect to Enjoy! You don’t need to say or do anything, just send out that appreciation to the Universe, not when you go to bed and you’re practicing gratitude for your day, but as you enjoy your drink, meal, walk in nature, cuddle with your lover, child or pet.

Have you ever been to a restaurant or show with friends, and then later you’re telling others about it and it’s as if you were in different places, because you say how much you enjoyed it, and someone else is saying how disappointed they were. That’s because the other person wasn’t Expecting to Enjoy. They were looking for something to complain about and they found it, just as you Expected to Enjoy and you did. It’s the Law of Attraction at work. If you anticipate a good time, that’s what will happen, but if you expect things to go wrong, they will. So two people at the same event can have very different experiences.

We have a choice here. We can Expect to Enjoy or we can Cue the Complaints. We can live in the moment and be excited for the experience, or we can create a self-fulfilling prophecy where we assume things will go wrong and so they do. It’s all in our energy, and it’s nothing to do with what’s actually happening around us. It’s how we’re approaching it energetically that drives our experience for good or ill.

Using the restaurant example, maybe we had a bad meal or poor service there last time, even if we’d had good experiences previously. We can’t change the bad time, because it’s over and done with, but we can choose to accept that sometimes things don’t go to plan and we can Expect to Enjoy, and we will. It’s all about acceptance, and moving forward.

If you have trouble getting to grips with this, adopt Expect to Enjoy as your affirmation, mantra or whatever you want to call it. Say it out loud or send it into the Universe as a thought three times on waking, and several times during the day, as a reminder that living in and enjoying the present moment is what makes us happy and raises our energetic vibration. Write the words in your journal, or on a large piece of paper that you can put on the fridge or frame so that you see it often. Be creative, turn the words into art, because that will help imprint them in your consciousness, so that Expecting to Enjoy becomes second nature. It’s all about the energy, every time!

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