Its not NOW or Never, Its just NOW!

"The past is history, the future is a mystery but now is a gift and that's why we call it the present!"  I'm pretty sure I got that old saying right and I certainly have no clue who said it but it is very true.  This week I want to talk about Present Moment Focus.

The best way I can describe Present Moment Focus is to talk about one of my passions.  Riding my motorcycle.  I just loved riding that bike, I recently sold, it but I will soon get another and a better one (Visualize. visualize, visualize!).  The thing I loved most about riding it is the freedom  from everything else going on when you are sitting atop that machine and cruising down the highway.. It is simply the most liberating experience you can have that's legal and not fattening!  Think about it, there is only you, the bike and the next 100 yards of road ahead of you.  You can not dwell on more than that because you really are on your own and unprotected from everything around you. If you allow yourself to get distracted you can die.  You have to be hyper-vigilant in order to stay safe.. 

This need to stay in the moment when riding is true because (as any rider will tell you) when you are tooling along; where you look is where you go!  Look to the right and the bike veers to the right and visa versa.  That's because once you get up over 15 mph, because of the physics of centrifugal force take over.  There is no need to get technical here but just understand that after a while, it all just becomes second nature, and it is as if the bike is responding to your thoughts.  But because you MUST always be aware of what is happening NOW, you can not think about what happened to you earlier in the day or last week or last year, and except for the nest few seconds of road time you can not think about what is going to happen an hour from now or nest week or when ever.  You have to be in the moment; one moment at time, for as long as you ride you are one with your bike and one with the road.  It's kind of ZEN and for me, that is totally liberating.  . 

P.M,F, is like that, when we are troubled, or anxious, or worried, it is often a good thing to take stock of exactly how we are feeling right at that moment. Physically and emotionally; become aware of where you are right then!.  If you are carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders just off load enough to allow you to breath.  Then you can start think, but don't think too far ahead. Just think about the very next step.  Confusious said that "A journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step".so while you may have a goal or outcome in mind, RIGHT NOW you need to extracate yourself from where you are.  As I have written before, we can not go from one extreme of feeling to another in one fell swoop.  You have to do it gradually. this is the key to P.M.F.

Lets look at this another way, the NOW is a fleeting thing..  By the time you think of something "now" has already become the past.  We can not change what happened in the past, and there are too many variables to guarante any distant future outcome, but by dealing with the present moment, we can at least shift our feelings and in doing so raise our vibrational level and begin to move in a more positive direction allowing the Law of Attraction to begin to work for us instead of against us.

If this concept of Present Moment Focus is interesting to you, the book "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle would be a great read for you. 


Unitll next time,,Keep the shiny side up!


Namaste!