Today’s meditation is called “The power of NOW”. It is the same as the title of Eckhart Tolle’s book which recognizes that the only place where we have true agency – the only place where we have any power to be effective at all – is in this present moment.
“The point of life is not to get anywhere, it is to notice that you are, and have always been, already there. You are always and forever in the moment of pure creation. The point of life therefore is to create who and what you are, and then to experience that.” – Neale Donald Walsch
If you can get your head out of the past and put all of your focus and energy into creating at your highest potential in this moment, THIS is what will create your next moment, and your next day and your next year!
“Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody you have to be except exactly who you’re being right now.” – Neale Donald Walsch
“What does THIS moment ask of me?” is the question we need to ask of ourselves from moment to moment.
Through a practice like meditation we become better at observing our thinking, rather than being dragged along by our thoughts.
We think thousands of thoughts every day. Studies show that our brain can come up with anything from 40,000 to 80,000 thoughts every day, it’s just what a human brain does – and about 80% of those thoughts are on repeat, the same thoughts as the day before and the day before that.
So when I am unaware that all of this is “old thinking”, then my present moment is always hijacked by thoughts from the past. And when I pour my energy into this old thinking, then thoughts from my past keep creating my next moment, and next day, and next year constantly reinforcing an old story – that I don’t even want – into perpetuity. Always creating and re-creating the past.
“Do not let anything from your past inhibit you in this Present Moment. Start over. Start Fresh. Each day. Each hour, if it serves you. Heck, each minute. Just get going. Just do it. A fresh start every moment with love. All else will take care of itself.” – Neale Donald Walsch
“So much of your present experience is based on your previous thought. Thought leads to experience, which leads to thought, which leads to experience. This can produce constant joy when the Sponsoring Thought is joyous. But also it can, and does, produce continual hell when the Sponsoring Thought is hellatious.” – Neale Donald Walsch
Moment to moment, bring your attention back from the past into the only place you have any power to create anything new and ask:
- What does this moment require of me?
- What does this moment ask me to step up and do?
- What opportunity does this moment make available to me?
The past serves either as a teacher or a trap.
On autopilot the past will repeat itself and forever be your master, but when you are present, every moment is a fresh start. In conscious awareness you can learn from the past and choose how you want to experience the present.
Right now, in this moment you have the power to choose a different response than you ever have before. One step at a time, one breath at a time, moment by moment, you are giving shape to a new future.
– pierre –
Today’s LIVE meditation is: The power of NOW.