Finding Contentment and Peace...

Begin now to fully accept the present moment... here now is the path to Peace... within yourself and in the world...

No matter what the question... what the issue... what the circumstance... now is where we begin... now is where we are...

You might say, "I don't want to be where I am or doing what I am doing."  That is part of your Now...a state of fighting...at war with what is... There are choices we can make as beings of pure awareness and decision-making...

Some form of acceptance of the present is the key to peace and being ease within...

If the life situation you find yourself in is dissatisfying, why are you in it? What choices do you have? Knowing what is... that is the beginning of freedom...

Do you have any control over the situation? If yes, what are the options? You can always make choices to improve the situation in areas where you have some power to do so...

If you have no direct influence over the external situation in your life... what choices do you have about your inner state of being?

A prisoner locked in a cell has few or no options about his or her life situation... but we always have the choice of how we will respond. There is a level of surrender to the situation that is not simply losing and giving in... Surrender has more to do with letting go of our resistance with an attitude of acceptance to what is.... The prisoner in the cell finds freedom as his or her deepest spirit is released into the present moment of Being...

Most of us are not in a physical prison cell, but may feel locked into a particular feeling state... such as depression... Years ago I worked as a mobile family therapist and the middle-aged woman I was visiting expressed her feelings as like being locked in a jail cell... accompanied by a long-standing sense of depression... She agreed to try an experiment in guided imagery... In a few minutes as we visualized the radiance of the sun coming down through the top of her head and surrounding her in a warm light, her whole body language and facial expression shifted and I could see a relaxation and light energy emanating from her... The darkness of the depressive energy was gone and her life spirit returned as she re-entered the present moment...

Be here fully in this moment ... Now is where acceptance, forgiveness, and  letting go of the past pain and future illusory fears will provide renewal and free our Life Energy and the Spirit of our deepest and highest realms of consciousness... our True Being...

We are beings of consciousness and will... awareness and action... Today we can acknowledge our true identity and call our Spirit front and center into our awareness... finding the peace and contentment of oneness with Life... with Source... the timeless Presence of this Moment...