BLOG #1: Please find the Present Moment (Patreon)

I've had a rough couple of weeks. Ups and downs. But I've learned (or rather, remembered) something important that I feel many people should also take more seriously: Try to be aware of what is here and now, and what isn't. Usually when we feel a certain way in a negative sense, usually fear, it's due to our reaction from a past event that we don't want to happen again. It's a defense mechanism.

Do you have bad self-esteem? Feel like you fail?

Why is that? If you were neutral to yourself, you would never feel this way. You would look at yourself as a person blossoming with potential. The reason you don't do that, is because you're identified with a certain thought pattern. You believe you ARE your mind. But if you let it be, and just look very closely at it (even though it hurts and is difficult), you will see that this negative idea of you is not you - it's an idea. A construction that has no life unless you react to it, identify with it, act it out. Once you see that, it drops away like smoke.

Do you have anxiety?

Why is that? Because the thought of a certain thing reminds you of a past traumatic event. You react to the thought automatically, and not by choice. And thus, it feels real, and authentic, even though it's just a programmed reaction that you maybe had to use before, but not anymore. Instead of letting anxiety take you over, where you try to push it away, try to welcome the anxiety with open arms. Let it come. And examine it. What images in my head creates this reaction? This tension in my shoulders, this increase in heart beat, this trouble breathing, this instinct to run and hide? Maybe if you look at that very closely, without judgement, you'll find something very interesting. Instead of seing it as something personal, you may just spot that it's a condition, not YOU. And that's when the possibility of freedom opens up.

So if you feel overwhelmed, anxious, depressed, scared... Take a moment, let it come fully, and look at it fully. Take it all in. And allow it to be there as you examine it. That's how you create a seperation between you and your mind, and in that, you find that the present moment is all there is. And the present moment is where transformation can come!