Every Moment Is A Choice

Take A Pause

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Every Moment Is A Choice

Take A Pause Ep 48: Making space for options

Erin Lee

Aug 24, 2025

Transcript

Take A Pause: Every Moment Is A Choice | Nian Life | Mindful Moments | Erin Lee

A mindfulness practitioner knows that every moment is a choice.

When we pause and breathe, we create precious space. A space between the experience and our response to it.

Here, we have options.

We can raise our voice, or take a deep breath and speak with calm.

We can deny our exhaustion and soldier on, or we can rest and offer kindness to our body and mind.

We can spiral into negativity and judgement, or soften into compassion and gratitude.

Mindfulness is remembering we always have a choice, and this remembering comes with practice.

Each time we intentionally bring awareness into the day, we sharpen the skill of discerning our options and choosing wisely.

We learn to recognise what brings us closer to wellbeing, and what carries us further away.

Even in meditation, every moment of the practice is a choice.

Do we drift away, or return to the present? Do we fight and struggle, or do we dwell in ease and equanimity?

We can choose balance. We can choose presence. We can choose kindness.

This is our agency—a quiet power of knowing that right now, in this moment, in this breath, we are always choosing.

In this Take A Pause session recorded on 4 May 2025, the TAP community chose to turn inward and meet each moment of their meditation with intention and presence. First, we engaged in gentle stretching movements, and then we observed the body in stillness, one moment at a time.

We closed our practice with a poem, Happy, by Donna Ashworth.

Meditation begins: 07:21

Reading begins: 29:34

Meditation duration: 22 minutes