Here I am once again in my little home office (read coffee table on the floor). Coffee in hand, sun coming through the window.
All is well in my world. Which is the way I like it.
The more I do this meditation malarky, and the more I do my best to help others too, the more obvious it seems to me.
The bottom line to all happiness, all calm, all contentment, all stress and struggle free living, to all being a better person …
… is simply down to whether you are in your head thinking about stuff or whether you are present and alive to this moment.
Simple.
I get it - simple, but perhaps not easy.
People tell me it’s hard to be present.
It’s actually not hard - you can be present right now, anyone can be present now, right?
What people find hard is being constantly, continuously present.
To make it easier - and the conclusion you will come to anyway:
You only have now. Now is the only time you can do anything, including being present.
You will drift, you will get distracted, you will.
No worries!
It’s only a problem if you make it a problem.
Wondering where you were, or beating yourself up for not being present a moment ago…
It’s worthless. Don’t waste a moment. Just jump in, right here, once again.
Make this more important than anything else.
Immerse yourself in this moment, in what is right in front of you.
The more you get used to this return, the stronger the experience gets of being here.
Notice when your head wants to think about something else - something that you can’t do anything about right now - and gently but definitely bring yourself back.
If you know the Ishayas’ Ascension attitudes then you have a great tool. Put more attention on those words than anything else. They will help break the loops and habits of certain thinking patterns quick.
The habit of drifting and thinking and worrying just dies. It does.
But it dies quicker when you treat it all as a game. When you make this moment more important than anything else.
OK? So take it easy and enjoy yourself.
If you want to make things easy for yourself, come to the next Ishayas’ Ascension course (remember you can repeat for free):
Let me know if you have any questions about any of this stuff, I'd love to help out. - Arjuna