Scott Ste Marie is a Mindfulness Practitioner, Coach and Mentor. Through his lived experience with depression and anxiety he has seen what is truly possible in recovery, healing, and living authentically. If you feel at ease and comfortable with the videos on this channel and Scott's approach to emotional and mental well-being, the resources below may be helpful to you.
Scott speaks across North America about emotional wellbeing, mental health and our innate need for connection. His history with mental health challenges have allowed him to develop a strong sense of empathy and compassion with his audiences and those he works with personally. Music is his true obsession as he plays the guitar, drums and sings.
Mindfulness is pretty simple, and I wanted to make this video extremely simple.
So the original idea, though, was, oh, I'll put some zen music in the back,
and I'll do a very fancy voiceover, maybe ASMR style.
But no, this is a simple trick, almost too simple, yet extremely effective.
How to ground yourself, how to submerse yourself in the present moment,
and that is to touch stuff.
Now, it doesn't have to be stuff in nature.
This can be anything, but I want you to think about something.
When was the last time you actually focused?
When was the last time you really paid attention to what something felt like?
When was the last time you brought full attention to that sense?
Because you could argue you don't need your sense of touch.
It's not really a fully relevant sense, and if you had to get rid of one,
I think you would choose sense over sight.
But when we talk about mindfulness, when we're talking about how to really notice
what is happening right now, using this sense can really ground us.
There's a mindfulness quote, and it goes something like this.
The present moment is filled with joy and happiness.
If you are attentive, you will see it.
And I realize that in the theater of our minds, that we can entertain ourselves.
We can think about future scenarios, what we could have said, what we should have said,
what we could have done, what we should have done, and it can be pretty entertaining.
But in my personal experience, when I'm completely submerged in the present moment
and using these senses I don't usually pay attention to,
there is a sense of joy, and there is a sense of peace that comes with that.
And we think about anxiety, right?
And these anxious thoughts, and we may be thinking of the future,
having thoughts that are completely useless to us.
Come back to what is happening right now in the physical world.
Remove yourself from your mind and literally touch something.
Now I know it may be difficult.
I went to this park, and if you're alone just touching stuff, people may give you a weird look.
People literally called me a fairy when I was recording this video.
Two teenagers walked by and yelled out fairy.
And I followed them and kicked their ass afterwards.
But that's not the point here.
The point is, practice mindfulness and submerse yourself
in the present moment through touching stuff.
