Living in the moment
Everything that we struggle to obtain, that we want to improve at, that we want to solve can be found when we learn how to bring our attention to the present moment.
This concept was entirely foreign to me eight years ago when I first started this path. What do you mean everything I want can happen if I come to this present moment? I would say. I need to work my butt off and make things happen I would think to myself. The statement that I wrote above would make absolutely no sense to me. Even as I’m writing it now I realize that many people will also find this to be true.
This is because the realization of what I wrote can only be experienced by being in the present moment. We can’t understand this phenomenon by thinking about it. Because the act of thinking about it takes us out of the present moment
My life is the living proof, that what I am saying is accurate and exist. It wasn’t just the things in my life that changed like the location or the people or what I’m doing. My entire experience of life changed
The way that I experienced the present moment is very different than the way I would experience my life when I am thinking.
I am not saying that our mind is the enemy or that thinking is bad. That’s silly. Our mind is the most powerful tool we have to create. The only problem is we are totally controlled by this tool and it has become our master. Like a self driving car that decides to take you where it wants to go instead of the other way around .
The reason I always talk about letting go of trapped emotions is because they are the reason why we struggle to be present in the moment.
I was a typical masculine, macho man, type of person before and emotions was never something that I paid attention to. That completely changed once I connected the dots to how our emotions actually affect our mind and body.