What a crazy amazing world we live in. I am constantly amazed at how fast everything changes and sometimes how things have changed without you even being aware of it. We allow so much life to just slip through our fingers because we are not present in our lives. Have you looked back and realised that you no longer do some things that you used to enjoy. How did that happen? It appears to have happened without you being aware of it. I could list a lot of things that I used to really enjoy but don’t do anymore.
My life is not in balance, I have filled those empty spots with things that do not really make my heart sing. Amazing is it not. Therefore, I need to be present and bring back the joy and fulfilment into my life experience. To do that I need to let go of some of the things presently in my life to make way for the things that fill me with joy. Oh now I have decisions, decisions to make. Can I do that, do I have the time. Life becomes a roundabout as I can’t make up my mind what to change, how to make a space. Then life continues on without any changes, then I complain once again. Hold on, stop. Grab a bit of paper and list the things in your life hour by hour, day by day, week by week and month and year by month and year that you presently do. Take the time to do it. The things on your list, do you want to do that, do you enjoy that? Be honest. Sometimes we do things out of necessity, mostly we just fill our time with things that have little or no meaning for us. We have just filled a space.
How much time do you spend watching television mindlessly. Some programs fill us with joy, but mostly we are tuned out of life and allowing the mediocre of the program to fill another space. Now we have the mobile phone, ipads, computers and so on to fill our time with mindless things. We have become so engrossed in technology we forget to communicate with our partners, families, friends and family. We send texts instead of speaking. Nothing can substitute for the vibration and connection of the human voice. Now I love technology as much as everyone else, but have we crossed the line and allowed technology to rule our lives. Are you playing a mindless game rather than engaging in conversation or expanding your knowledge. I have been guilty of this. Try and go without your phone for a weekend, oh no, withdrawal symptoms. If someone does not answer our call in the first few seconds, we think they are ignoring us. What have we done wrong? We fill our present moments with so much and then wonder why we have so little time to enjoy life.
Our thoughts are going a million miles an hour and clogging our time and we run out of time!!!!!! Oh the drama of life. What does it mean to be present. In the present, there is no past, no future, just the essence of life in the moment. Nearly all our thoughts are either focussed in the future or the past. Worry, fear, doubt, jealousy, anger are all products of the thoughts of the mind that is focussed in the future or the past.
In the present moment everything is alive, has energy. In the present moment we can enjoy life, for we allow our thoughts to be still and just feel the vibration of life. So where is the best place for us to live????? I want to live in the present moment and be happy and fulfilled. It is only my mind that prevents me from living there……When my thoughts wander from the present moment, I will bring it back by being present…I will concentrate on my breath and feel the energy of my body and absorb the sounds and movement around me and I will find peace and life.
