Present Moment Reminder: Your Life Situation...

'Forget about your life situation and pay attention to your life. Your life situation exists in time. Your life is now. Your life situation is mind-stuff. Your life is real.'

Eckhart Tolle

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"If the crick don't rise..."

"If the crick don't rise..."

To sit with no other human beings in the room...

To sit and type the words you read

You have entered this space in some other Now... 'This Now-Now'

Infused with the same Life that formed these symbols out of nothingness

The same Life that reads these symbol-word-language-forms

Now

Life... is

This Moment... is

This Life situation... is

We are one Life animating All

All-Ways in the Now... in this present moment...

We talk in time-formed language and suggest there is a future since we can think ahead and say "I will be meeting you at five o'clock." ...

And if we meet...when we meet... it will be now...

Life is only present in this moment...

We consider the 'past-Nows' when we recall an experience and memory of that experience... and we may define it by our opinion as being a pleasurable or painful memory...or something in between...

We consider possible 'future-Nows' when we plan and hope and dream... and we may wish for a better 'future-now' which probably means we are resisting this-Now... or we may create fantasies of future-Nows that are worse and so we conjure up fear in this present moment about something that is totally unreal and not present except in our thinking...

And now we get to the 'Real-Now'... the absolute and only 'Now' is 'this Now'...

This Present Moment... where Life continues its journey and acts through the various forms that it creates...

Stop and pause the train of thought...

Look and Listen to the Life that is...

Beyond labels... and definitions... and interpretations...

Be with what is...

Allowing without resistance...

This is Life...

Not 'my' life... for I am not separate from Life...

Not 'your' life... for you and Life are not separate ...

This is IT... this very Moment... this IS LIFE...

Enter the Now-Gate ...

Welcome to the only 'day' of Life...

which is continuously NOW...

We tend to divide everything in segments and categories and files and labels and days and months and years...all so we can have some illusion of manipulation, control, and record... AND...we may lose sight of the timeless quality of real LIFE... the present...

Thursday is a label that signifies nothing... if I am astute and have done my homework, I will be able to recite to you that yesterday was 'Wednesday' and tomorrow will be 'Friday'... but these days exist only in our mind... our collective mind in most cases...

They are only formed constructs to help us organize and keep life somewhat manageable... I have made some plans to fly to Denver in a 'future Now'... I really do not know if that will ever happen... We have come up with sayings that help to convey the uncertainty of 'future-Nows'... sayings like: "Lord willing" or "If the crick don't rise"... and so on... We need to operate in conventional ways in order for there to be order... so 800 people do not show up to get on an airplane the holds 33 beings... so someone might be there to pick me up when and if the airplane lands where it is intended to land... and so on...

And all these events... that we can plan ahead of time... may or may not occur... and if they do... each event will be in the Present Moment...always... none has ever experienced the future... although sometimes people do have glimpses from time to time ... which is a topic for another Now...

So we plan with a consideration for the uncertainty of LIFE... with a certain acceptance and flexibility... so when Life doesn't go exactly as 'we' planned or expected, we can adjust rather than resist what is actually happening. I would guess most if not all frustration and suffering comes from resisting what is .... the actual life situation in which we find ourselves... When we resist, we strengthen our ego by blaming others or ourselves... as if somehow life has struck us with a sucker punch... and the ego begins to play with ideas that of course Life is unfair and we must be singled out to experience this unfairness...  so our egoic mind processes quickly the likely suspects for blame... God... others... and sometimes ourselves...

Or we become quite philosophical and began to ask why... which is often another ego game that shoves us into identification as a 'victim'...  

If we are to remain awake and aware... we must be vigilant and observe the mind games our ego plays to try to distract us from being present... at times like a trickster that will go to any lengths to have the ego maintain its control...

The ego is not evil and is a natural part of the domestication process as we grow within families, tribes, and collective mindsets... There is almost an irony that we spend years in strengthening the ego in order to operate in our everyday world and then... after years of growing the personality strength, we find that we are really trying to let go of the ego so we can be more present in a new way... from a new dimension the transcends the personal... that gets the bigger picture... the transcends fear... regret... and even hope... all are mind games to focus on something other than simply being present right now... right Now!

We let go of what was ...and what will be...so that what is... can Be!

Peace and Love.... John 
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John Hutchinson
www.SundanceWellnessCenter.com - [latest post to blog]www.sunhutch.com - [blog intro page]Lancaster, Pa

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Your Life Situation... How's It Going?

“What’s Going On?”

If you were to stop now for 30 seconds and consider your life circumstances, how would you describe your feelings about your life situation? What is your enjoyment level about what’s going on in your life?


Check one… and be honest since you may be the only one seeing this…


1. ___ I’m feeling enthusiasm and even some ecstasy about my life situation.


2. ___ I’m feeling enjoyment about my life situation.


3. ___ I’m feeling an acceptance about my life situation.


4. ___ I’m feeling somewhat dissatisfied about my life situation.


5. ___ I’m feeling an extreme dislike about my life situation.

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Some further notes…

Life happens in the present, always.


If we’re really non-accepting of the present situation and lack enjoyment of what we’re doing or what’s happening, we will find ways to distract ourselves from staying in the present moment. We can easily slip into feeling lost and disconnected…or have a sense that there is something missing… or something is wrong …


We will be off into mental fantasies about tomorrow and memories of yesterday. We will replay ‘happy’ memory movies (usually embellished) and project a happy future time somewhere down the road…or in some other foreign paradise or world… We may find misery partners to bond with as we share the old scars and wounds... We may develop co-worrier support groups or ‘friends’ to share fears about the uncertainty of life… the unknown future…


There are options if we dare to consider them…


We are human 'beings' of awareness and choice.


There is a difference between “Life” and a “life situation.”


Life is and continues… Consciousness is and continues… The essential energy that is Life exists… while the circumstances of life are constantly changing…


Your “life situation” and what you are doing is always changing in some way.


It is preferable usually to at least enjoy what we are doing and have a sense of satisfaction about what is going on in our immediate life circumstances.


If you find yourself in a situation that seems almost unbearable, discover if there is something that can be altered or changed about that situation… Consider all options. What can I do differently? Do I have any real authority or power to make a change in the situation? Can I influence the situation for the better, whatever that might be?


Resignation and Surrender
Some situation cannot be changed on the outside. The person who is stuck into a specific situation due to societal rules…such as a person who broke the law and is confined to a prison… may lack the power or influence to change their immediate circumstance. In this case, they can either be resigned to their fate and continue to feel miserable, isolated, and self loathing or angry at their captors and the ‘authority’ that placed them in confinement. Another option is to accept the ‘life situation’ as it is… and surrender into the present moment. Resignation is giving up but remaining to feel wronged… or blaming self or others, etc. The energy of resignation is often one of defeat and negative energy.


Even though you may not be a prisoner in an actual jail cell, your life situation may feel similar.


When other options are not possible, acceptance of the current ‘life situation’ as just ‘what is’…allows a person to re-enter the present with a new freedom. Surrendering to the Now requires letting go of the past through forgiving oneself and others and Life. What happened… happened. We cannot undo history. We cannot erase history and memory… And…we can reset the energy circuits of our lives and remove the negative charge that our body carried…


Present Moment General Affirmation
Life is energy. From time immemorial, change continues to occur in an instant… in the moment… not sometime out there…after this or that happens first… ‘out there’ in the future never really comes… ‘Now’ is the only time when change can occur…


***Tapping and Patting…
Imagine your body, thoughts, emotions, memories, senses are all intricately wired with subtle energy circuits… and they are all connected… It may help to use you fingertips of one hand to tap on your chest area… or pat the top of your head… this will help to reset the energy circuits and clear any glitches…


Repeat the following general affirmation 3 times out loud so you can hear the words as well as think them. Say it even if you may not be ready to accept it as true at this time…


“Even though I have made mistakes… and others have wronged me, I completely forgive and accept myself, others, and life… and choose to live fully in the present moment.” (Repeat at least 3 times.)


Continue tapping or patting as you repeat the affirmation… You may use the affirmation as much as possible…


Present Moment Specific Affirmation
Some people may have specific memories, feelings, aches, and other aspects arise after they start this process. The tapping/affirmation process is equally or even more effective in dealing with specific emotionally charged memories or aches.


“Even though I have this (ailment, pain, ache, memory, feeling, etc)… I completely and deeply love and accept myself, others, and life…” (Repeat at least 3 times.)


For those who may not be completely ready to say the affirmation as written, you can write your own in a positive way… here are some examples:


Modified General Affirmation:
“Even though I have made mistakes… and others have wronged me, I may be open to forgiving and accepting myself, others, and life… and am considering choosing to live fully in the present moment.” (Repeat at least 3 times.)


Modified Specific Affirmation:
“Even though I have this (ailment, pain, ache, memory, feeling, etc)… I may be open to forgiving and accepting myself, others, and life…” (Repeat at least 3 times.)


What's going on... is what's going on...


Love...
John

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*** Tapping and Patting Note: All negative emotions are reflected in a disruption in the subtle energy system that connects all aspects of our life, body, emotions, thoughts, and soul. There are specific places on the body where we can tap as outlined by Gary Craig’s “Emotional Freedom Techniques” (EFT) and many others. What is most important is to understand that all energy is connected and this exercise is designed to connect the conscious and unconscious aspects of ‘mind’… which has an innate intelligence and knows what needs to happen. In spiritual terms this can also be understood as the wisdom of our Higher Power effecting healing through the flow of Life’s Great and Ever-present Spirit. To learn more about EFT and get their free EFT manual, visit http://www.emofree.com/