Present moment

15 September 2008

From the last e-mail, we learned that we never stop creating desires. During the journey, you want to do only the right things in your life, wishing having only the beautiful pictures in your mind, yet it seems the world does not always revolve together with you, sometimes you feel like you are against the currents. You may even ask yourself ‘How do I move forward from here?’ You feel that your whole world has collapsed into pieces that can never be the same.

In the past, we have faced some challenges in life, like first time driving alone to town, first time making a presentation, … some even greater challenges like having financial difficulties, broken relationships or issues that you thought you were having a hard time to resolve. Yet, when we look back, though we may feel the negative emotions (sadness, guilt, anger,…), we are glad that it’s over and now you life has fall in place, may be better or may be worse, importantly, we learned our lessons and we do not want to make the same mistake again.

Whether you believe in god, light, sun or yourself, we are given only challenges that we can handle. It is just like in the past, the moment when we faced a challenge, we thought that was the greatest of all in our life, yet we got over it and moved on.

Same thing, when you face a challenge right now, take it easy and knowing that you will get over it. Needless to be too concerned neither to be too stress. When you are having stress, there is where you want to be in an ideal future and yet, you are at the present. Therefore, practice to be at the present moment fully, so that you will find yourself cannot hold any negative emotion which will lead to have better health and making better decisions.

How do I be fully at the present moment?

Now think of an issue, you may find that you have images in mind with negative emotion. Now, FOCUS YOUR BREATHING. E.g. breathe in…, breathe out,…. breathe in, … breathe out,… while having the issue in mind. You may find it is rather hard to even think of the issue. That is where you are at PRESENT MOMENT.