You probably more or less agree with everything said. But in the end, the question always arises—how?
A famous saying goes: “Wherever you go, at every point, you are always there, and in other words, you are always here.” In our linear thinking, this might be a little difficult to understand, and even harder to live by. Our mind constantly throws us back to the past and simultaneously into the future. Our thoughts are always elsewhere, but practically never here and now.
Stop for a moment and observe your thoughts. Where are you? Think of the media and the many electronic devices we have. In reality, we are always somewhere else, in another time and space, never truly here and now. We miss the present moment, which is the only moment in which we are truly alive, where we breathe, feel, and simply exist.
To illustrate this, consider a small example: imagine you’re on a walk, you sit on a bench, and you notice a rainbow. At that moment, your phone rings, and someone from another place calls you. While talking to them, where are you? You’re somewhere else, and in the meantime, the rainbow has disappeared. You missed it because your thoughts were elsewhere. In reality, you weren’t fully here or there. In this way, we skip over time and space, and our precious here and now fades away, unused, like the rainbow.
To be here and now, you don’t need to perform complicated techniques. All that is needed is to consciously calm your thoughts. Several times a day, focus on your breathing—inhaling and exhaling. You can consciously focus your attention on an object. All that’s required is focus. As strange as it may sound, our thoughts are not as fast and powerful as we imagine.
We can only think one thought at a time. The key is that we hold onto one thought for such a short period that it feels like our thoughts are rushing over each other. If we pay attention, or direct our focus onto something, this process slows down or even pauses for a moment. This gives us the chance to ask ourselves how to move forward and wait for the answer, which we will intuitively feel sooner or later.
But as mentioned before, for this to happen, we must move from the head to the heart. We need to stop the various scenarios our mind serves up. For example, when we ask a stranger their name, we don’t imagine a whole range of possible names they could have—we simply wait for their answer. In that moment, we are present, in the here and now, and we accept their name without question.
When we truly want something and turn that desire into a decision, when we are capable of allowing and forgiving, when we shift from the mind to the heart and Love and Accept ourselves and others, when we detoxify the past, and when we are fearless in the present moment, only then do we feel the power within us to create the future.
All of this together crushes the boulder that blocked our path, and from its pieces, we can build a castle.