There is no bigger gift than being fully awake and connected to one’s life. Which only happens right now. Because once you are, it overthrows you with uncountable gifts.
For that to happen, one has to realize that life happens only in the “Here & Now”.
Your thoughts come and leave, your feelings come and leave, people come and leave, animals come and leave, thoughts about the future or the past come and leave, what you see when you open your eyes comes and leaves.. but the present moment, the “Here & Now”, the only moment in which you can take action, rest or enjoy something, is always there for you. You go to sleep, wake up and the “Here & Now” is already there waiting for you.
This is your life.
Your most loyal friend of all.
If you pay attention to your most loyal friend, you get peace and one present after another.
If you live too much in the past you get depressed by turning your back towards the gifts. If you live too much in the future, you get anxious and oversee the beauty and possibilities in the |Here & Now”. Both too much make you ignore your life. Make you oversleep it because you are either with your head in the future or past, which are nothing more than thoughts or memories. Science figured that each time we remember an event we cannot reproduce exactly as it was. This means we live in illusion when we live in memories or in fictive thoughts about the future. Don’t get me wrong – revisiting beautiful memories is important to not let them disappear in vagueness, to rejoice or to find motivation and energy, similar to the future. The best way to predict it is to create it.
To know what you want to create you need to mentally travel into the future, your life can become a big mess if you don’t plan certain things. For our ancestors, especially in colder regions where fruits weren’t hanging all year long in the trees and bushes, it was important for surviving the winter to plan the seeding and reaping of the fields. You cannot reach or achieve any goals without it.
But it is just the mental part, which you practice in the “Here & Now”, the practical part of doing the right actions for making your plans come alive is also only possible in the “Here & Now”.
You get the picture, you actually only got everything in your life in the eternal “Here & Now”. As YinYang teaches us, everything is about choosing the right amount. One golden rule is the golden middle way, which you can apply to many things.
When thinking about how to use your awareness and attention with the Past, Future and Present, the one in the middle, the Present is the golden one and the short cut to your true self and true life.
That is why your most loyal friend the Present is also a synonym for the word “Gift”. Because that is exactly what it is.
Maybe you want to unfold it. Again and again…
“Breath consciously and be conscious about being conscious and you are united with the essence of who you are and where life is happening at the same time. For consciously breathing connects you with your true self, the one who breathes for you when you don’t think about it and who is always there in silence behind your constant mental chatters. Your true self whispers, inner silence is necessary to perceive it.”
By regularly and consciously stopping your breath for some seconds before breathing in again or breathing out again, it can be easier to cut through the stream of your constant inner chatter.
The more you practice, the longer the breaks and moments of inner silence. Your naked connection with the present moment.
Enjoy your most loyal friend.
