Friday, 6 September 2013

Live in the now


The best moments for me is when I am in the Now. When I can sit, talk, be silent or contemplate and appreciate my surroundings with myself or with others. It is when the past is not holding on to me, when the future is not my focus but the present moment is simply there and it fills me up with love. This is how I will know I succeeded when I can make these moments occur more frequently.

My thought for today: Be aware of the unnecessary chatter going on in your mind or a feeling of "something" you are meant to do. For instance, like the expectation you place on yourself to be liked all the time thinking you must make sure you do this, that or the other. Or when you want to be a "success" at work and try too hard. When these pressures are at the forefront of your mind there is no way of knowing if you are fully present. Life will simply pass us by. By being present you get to experience life and be in control of it.

A reminder by Eckhart Tolle:
The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately, it is not so much that you use your mind wrongly – you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.”
The Power of Now

It's okay to take a break and take in the simple pleasures in life that make you smile, fill you up with joy and that take your breath away. So if you haven't done it already free yourself from the state you are constantly in, the one you rely on and step outside your own comfort zone to do, feel or be something different.


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