showing up

English translation: being there, attending

15:43 May 7, 2019

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English term or phrase: showing up

Hi,
I’m not sure about the meaning of “showing up” in the passages below, taken from a book on a meditation practice called The Wheel of Awareness.
In the first instance, it might mean “becoming aware”, and in the second instance, it might perhaps mean “living life fully”, but I’m not sure at all...
Thank you in advance for your help and your patience, as well!

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1 The first occurence is here:

A general term, presence , is sometimes also used for the notion of ** showing up ** in awareness and being receptive to what is happening. Presence embraces the sensibility that we can vary in our state of mind even if our physical body is there in an experience. We can have receptive awareness of what is happening as it is happening, and then we would say we are “being mindful.” Or we can be distracted as our mind wanders to other concerns no matter what we had been trying to focus on or what activity we are physically involved in. When our minds wander unintentionally , we are not present, we are not receptively aware, we are not mindful, and, studies suggest, we inhibit being happy—even if we are daydreaming about exciting things. Mental presence is a state of being wide awake and receptive to what is happening, as it is happening in the moment, within us and between the world and us. Presence cultivates happiness.

2 (in an another chapter, near the end of the passage)

When our filters are free and flexible, we are efficient and live in harmony with the world, having a fluid sense of self arising from a dynamic set of plateaus adjusting to the ever-changing needs of the world around us and within us. This is what it means to live with presence. When a particular filter is frozen and rigid, or chaotic and without a coherent core of its structure, these characteristics can make us prone to the rigidity and chaos that an unrealized and unintegrating self-defining set of plateaus can create. In these situations, being present and ** showing up ** fully for life are compromised.

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Selected answer:being there, attending

Explanation:
It's a synonym for present/presence, which appears in both the sentences you cite.
The language of this whole text is a bit strange and not always easy to follow, so you have my sympathy!

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philgoddard
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Thank you so much, Phil, for your help! Many thanks also to all other participants!
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being there, attending

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mindfulness

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to endure

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón

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being there, attending

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 119

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Thank you so much, Phil, for your help! Many thanks also to all other participants!

Notes to answerer

Asker: Hi, Phil! you're so kind! I do appreciate your sympathy! I must say that the contents of the text is interesting, really, but it's true: it's not always easy to follow. Thank you very much!

31 mins confidence:

mindfulness

Explanation:
Professor Siegel says studies demonstrate the physical impact of not being mindful and entering 'auto-pilot' mode — "not showing up for an experience" — rather than being fully aware of what we're doing.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-17/dan-siegel-on-distrac...

Mark Robertson
Local time: 00:42
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English
PRO pts in category: 12

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you, Mark, for your contribution! Actually, the author uses the term "mindfulness" in the book, but he says that this term doesn't have a singular, fixed definition shared by all researchers and practitioners...

5 hrs confidence:

to endure

Explanation:
... to the end, to stand out every situation, to continue in existence.

Juan Arturo Blackmore Zerón
Mexico
Local time: 18:42
Native speaker of: Spanish

Notes to answerer

Asker: Thank you, Juan Arturo, for your interpretation!

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