The Present Moment

The Present Moment. Do you remember, the first time you’ve heard about the Present Moment? Maybe, you were in Wisdom circles and heard it or you heard it randomly in conversations or some other way. If this is your first time hearing the Present Moment – Welcome!

When we take a step back to understand what the Present Moment means, we come to find how vital the Present Moment is to our existence. By giving the Present Moment our attention, we reveal its importance to us. The Present Moment holds the only moment that’s available — the other moments that our mind believes we have, are the past (already happened) and the future (hasn’t happened yet). We completely and unequivocally exist in the Present. If you’d like to confirm this for yourself, sit and ask yourself — Where is my physical body right now? What is my body doing at this moment?  When we consciously connect with our bodies, we recognize our bodies remain consistently in the present moment.

What makes us believe in the past and future?

When we look at the Present Moment, we gain an understanding of ourselves, who we are in our natural state of Being. The Present Moment is life-giving, consciousness that we naturally express. But, we have been socially conditioned to leave this space temporarily or frequently to engage our minds with thinking. The time we spend away from the Present Moment depends how active our thinking has become during our lifetime. When this happens our minds transport us into the past or future, where we create dualities of things we must achieve or acquire to survive. When we engage with our thoughts, we become unconscious to the Present Moment.

Here are some examples of our minds in the past or future:

• When we dwell on thoughts that involve people or situations in our past.
• When we look at our life situation and judge that it should or should not be happening.
• We engage in criticism of people or ourselves of what they/we should be, do or have, then we are caught in our thoughts on how to change.

By engaging our thoughts this way, we self-assign illusionary images to people and situations, mistaking them for our truth and reality. We believe them without question. As we increase our thinking, what follows is the way to make life difficult for ourselves and potentially for people around us. Unless we look seriously in the Present Moment and its relationship to us, we continue to fall into this unconsciousness and away from our truest nature. Transformation takes a back seat; we become stagnate to Life.

What is the Present Moment?
The Present Moment resides in Stillness. It cannot be understood by active thinking; thoughts emerge from an externally conditioned mind. The Present Moment is our deeper consciousness of Being that emanates Presence. The Present Moment holds our power; the space where all external forms are perceived and manifest. It is Aliveness and a Constant, Living Presence. It is Us.

Drop your thoughts. Know yourself in the Present Moment!