From Performance to Presence

I’ve been sitting with the idea of presence.

Not just as a spiritual concept, but as a way of showing up in the world.

Presence to me means responding to the need of the moment. Being here and now. It means being unscripted. Unprepared and vulnerable.

That may even mean being offensive to someone - not out of intention, but out of authenticity.

Presence is raw. It’s demands awareness, focus and being centred. It doesn’t adjust to perform. It lands where it lands.

And when we couple presence with our power rooted in self-trust and nervous system regulation, something magical happens:

We create space for something real to emerge.

Something we couldn’t plan and something that would never come out if we were too busy performing.

Performance is built for delivery, an achievement of a goal, for a pre-desgined outcome.

And it is not bad.

It’s often how we learned to survive. It is also how we get what we believe needs to be done, done.

But it’s not where our brilliance resides.

I’ve spent years operating under this unspoken belief:

“I need to deliver to be worthy.”

To show up in a pre-designed way. To be enough. To be praised.

The truth is, we don’t need to just deliver.

We need to allow something deeper to come through.

Performance is adjustment.

Presence is alignment.

How do we know the difference?

Our body knows. It exhales, relaxes, softens.

This is what we explore inside Awaken the Queen Within, not as theory, but as lived practice.

Saturday 20 September 2025 | Central London