I hear these words all around me. I love these words and how they make me feel. I wanted to take a moment today to reflect and to check in with myself. What is the meaning that I have assigned to these words that makes me feel so good when I hear them?
I confused myself a lot with these words before. I made it very complicated for myself to connect with them. I had many rules and disempowering beliefs and meanings to this space called "the present moment". I had to close my eyes and meditate. I needed to be alone and undisturbed. I found it every once in a while but it took a lot of time to get there, and as I opened my eyes I lost it again.
My thoughts told me that this is a place you need to "get" to. I made it something outside of myself instead of as a part of me. The vision that came to me, as I entered this "space" was always a field of flowers and a big oak tree. I saw myself sitting under this tree and I felt the calmness inside and around me. This place is magical. That's what my thoughts told me and so that's how I felt. The problem for me was that once I opened my eyes it was raining outside or I saw the people outside my window rushing from place to place or the pile of laundry that I needed to do, and just like that the present moment was gone. That was my thought and so that's how I felt.
When I think about the present moment today, in this very moment, this is what comes to me. The present moment is not a place, it's not a time and it's not a thing. Today the present moment is a feeling. A feeling of freedom, lightness, space and power.
Freedom
Because in the present moment I have the power to choose my thoughts and my feelings, how my body moves and where it moves.
Lightness
Because in the present moment I have the power to create from the wisdom of the past and the magical dreams and vision of tomorrow.
Space
Because in the present moment I hear myself and those around me, I see myself and those around me and I feel myself and those around me.
Power
Because there is no power greater than the one in this very moment, the present moment.
What is the gift of this moment?
Instead of asking myself to "be in the present moment" I like to invite myself to a question.
I ask myself this: What is the gift of this moment?
I especially like to ask myself this question in moments of heat or when the wind is blowing from different directions hitting me all at once. Then I like to invite myself to this question: What is the gift of this moment?
The gift for me is to come back to the present moment, because in the present moment there is freedom, lightness, space and power. This is where I hear the better questions, where I am reminded to ask myself what instead of why. Where I change my thoughts from why are we fighting to what can I do to bring us back to love and just like that the present moment expands inside of me and around me. The wind has calmed, touching me and this moment, with its cooling breeze. The present moment is a feeling I can create at any moment, because the present moment is inside of me and all around me. This is my belief and so it is.
I want to invite you to take a few moments to ask yourself these questions:
* What is the meaning that you have assigned to the present moment?
* Are you making it complicated or easy for yourself to feel and experience it?
I am here when you are ready to go deeper.
Love,
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