LIVING IN THE NOW: IS IT POSSIBLE? WHAT’S THE POINT?
My mind is like a slippery eel. When I try to stay focused right now, where I am experiencing what I am experiencing, my mind likes to slip off and cause me to chase down alleyways, byways, and other ways ending in a dead end street that takes me nowhere but to vicious cycles and I completely miss out on what is going on right this minute.
The dinner I was eating disappears without my tasting a thing because I was off in thoughts. The treasured moment with a loved one is lost to me forever because I missed being present. Or the beauty of a moment is crushed under the feet of galloping concerns and worries and the "what ifs" of tomorrow or the dust of yesterdays.
Have I built a life so far based on yesterdays? Probably I have for I brought with me my meanings of all of that. But are they not gone? As I build new meanings cannot I not be more aware of and choose to let go of past meanings? This is now and not yesterday. That is a fact hard to argue with but argue I do most times.
My tomorrows, are any promised to me for sure? How many will I have? Who really knows how many they will have? Yesterday I learned that a man 59 died suddenly and unexpectedly with a heart attack and two weeks ago a child of 15 died in a car wreck along with the grandparents in their 50s. Everything passes even the "bad" stuff.
One thing I can do is to show up for life. I can be present as much as possible. I can practice more meditating training my mind to focus and to be brought swiftly back to the moment when I stray. I can learn to give wings to plans knowing full well they are dependent upon so many things and that even I could change enough to desire something different than I first set my sights upon. I can watch my thoughts and beliefs and learn to shift them when I know they are leading me to places I don't want to go. And all the while I can embrace the moment with full awareness so that I can go with the flow of goodness, mercy, love, peace, joy and understanding freeing myself and others to be exactly what we are and who we are at that moment in the "now".
You would think that just showing up for life would be relatively simple and easy. Simple it is; easy it is not because we are not used to being so aware and so disciplined. Monkey mind, the committee, call it what you will, will vie for our attention and then try to absorb us so that we cannot be present. It very cleverly disguises itself as practicality and reality. For example it cause you to judge the moment based upon some experience you had years ago which does not now apply or it will tell you if you don't worry about what could happen, it will.
The truth is the past should no longer tell you how to choose now or how to act now or think now or believe now IF you don't think it serves you. The truth is that the more you worry about something happening, the more likely it will probably do just that for the more energy you give it, the more you attract the possibility of that experience to you. I didn't say you shouldn't think about what you would like to see in the future. You can do that and increase the possibility that you will draw that experience to yourself but you have to know that as you change, your circumstances change, and opposing thoughts horn in on your dream, that negation of that original idea may happen even without your being aware.
Trust that there is a Power greater than you are that is forever with you that creates everything. Your responsibility is to show up, be present, watch what you are thinking, focus on what you want rather than what you don't want, then release it to that Power knowing and believing the highest good is being carried out at all times so that you can be present in the "now" and enjoy and really live the life you have been given.
The dinner I was eating disappears without my tasting a thing because I was off in thoughts. The treasured moment with a loved one is lost to me forever because I missed being present. Or the beauty of a moment is crushed under the feet of galloping concerns and worries and the "what ifs" of tomorrow or the dust of yesterdays.
Have I built a life so far based on yesterdays? Probably I have for I brought with me my meanings of all of that. But are they not gone? As I build new meanings cannot I not be more aware of and choose to let go of past meanings? This is now and not yesterday. That is a fact hard to argue with but argue I do most times.
My tomorrows, are any promised to me for sure? How many will I have? Who really knows how many they will have? Yesterday I learned that a man 59 died suddenly and unexpectedly with a heart attack and two weeks ago a child of 15 died in a car wreck along with the grandparents in their 50s. Everything passes even the "bad" stuff.
One thing I can do is to show up for life. I can be present as much as possible. I can practice more meditating training my mind to focus and to be brought swiftly back to the moment when I stray. I can learn to give wings to plans knowing full well they are dependent upon so many things and that even I could change enough to desire something different than I first set my sights upon. I can watch my thoughts and beliefs and learn to shift them when I know they are leading me to places I don't want to go. And all the while I can embrace the moment with full awareness so that I can go with the flow of goodness, mercy, love, peace, joy and understanding freeing myself and others to be exactly what we are and who we are at that moment in the "now".
You would think that just showing up for life would be relatively simple and easy. Simple it is; easy it is not because we are not used to being so aware and so disciplined. Monkey mind, the committee, call it what you will, will vie for our attention and then try to absorb us so that we cannot be present. It very cleverly disguises itself as practicality and reality. For example it cause you to judge the moment based upon some experience you had years ago which does not now apply or it will tell you if you don't worry about what could happen, it will.
The truth is the past should no longer tell you how to choose now or how to act now or think now or believe now IF you don't think it serves you. The truth is that the more you worry about something happening, the more likely it will probably do just that for the more energy you give it, the more you attract the possibility of that experience to you. I didn't say you shouldn't think about what you would like to see in the future. You can do that and increase the possibility that you will draw that experience to yourself but you have to know that as you change, your circumstances change, and opposing thoughts horn in on your dream, that negation of that original idea may happen even without your being aware.
Trust that there is a Power greater than you are that is forever with you that creates everything. Your responsibility is to show up, be present, watch what you are thinking, focus on what you want rather than what you don't want, then release it to that Power knowing and believing the highest good is being carried out at all times so that you can be present in the "now" and enjoy and really live the life you have been given.
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