The Present Is All We Have

The present moment's all we own

All that we need to us is shown

Right here, right now, it's all a gift

For us to find a way to shift

Our lives from future and from past

Back to the present, and at last

We'll find the peace we're craving for

'Cause now there is no need for war.

If we accept whatever is

And stay in peace and mind our biz

Miracles happen, and we'll be

Joyful and peaceful, 'cause, you see - 

When you don't let your ego-mind

Wander like crazy, get you blind

You start to see the real world

That is all made by our God

With purpose only, nothing's vain

Nothing's for nothing, but your brain,

When you don't order it to stop,

Will try to make you think it's crap!

You have to only use your mind

To help you do things that are kind

For you and for whoever else

Don't let it turn you to a mess!

So, breathe right now, deep, long and good

Just think of breathing, and you should

Feel how your mind is getting mute

Just meditate, get back to root

To present moment, to your soul

Feel peace inside you, you are whole

The way you are RIGHT NOW - no need

For nothing else, you are indeed

A miracle and God-like thing

You're made of energy, you sing

A perfect song, just don't destroy

Your holly spirit and your joy

With noise from ego, from the time

Past, future - nothing makes you rhyme

More than THIS moment, so just feel

Your inner energy, your thrill

In every little  thing you do

Breathe, feel your body, just feel YOU!

Each time you let your thinking drift

Away from here, the joy is missed!!

I think this is a fabulous thing, knowing about this "magic trick", as I like to call it. I am so thankful to Eckhart Tolle for that! I have been living a big part of my life being tormented by thinking... forward and backward, to present and to past, identifying myself with both. And that caused me so much suffering, because when you see yourself as being defined by the past experiences, automatically you get frightened by the future ones. The irony of this is that we can't control any of them! The past is dead and gone, the future is uncertain... so why do we bother? I think it's simply because we are crazy... 

When we concentrate on the present moment and only live in the present (of course, you can make a list of the "to do" things, set your alarms to go off when things need done, lol, otherwise you'll get in trouble...but just do not think of those things too much!). Trust God (who is in you, by the way, as in everything else) that will give you the best inspirations and the best "hints" as to what's to be done for your higher good. And He will, because He always does, only that you can't hear Him because of the horrible noise made by your mind, powered by the Ego. There is no heaven and no hell, the "heaven" that the Bible refers to is the peace inside you, and the "hell" is the torment and the suffering cause by the devil, who is your Ego. Jesus tried to make us see that in many of his teachings, only that people didn't manage to understand, especially because of their egos. The devil doesn't want us to feel good, does he! 

For a long time I had the wrong idea as to what "meditation" is.. I thought it was sitting and thinking long and hard about something. But hell, NO! Meditation is precisely thinking about NOTHING! Not thinking. Giving your mind a break, allowing it to get cleaned of the bad vibrations generated by it with so much thinking about present and future. The mind is a magnificent tool but we have to learn how to use it, and to learn how to not let ourselves be used by it. It's simple, if a thought makes you suffer, means you drifted either to the past, or to the future. Get back in the present. There are no problems right in THIS moment, are they? They only arise when we drift back or forth.

Here's a few techniques to help you stay in the present:

- become consciuos of your breathing, feel how the air is getting in and going out of your lungs, pay attention to this process for a few moments and your mind will calm down. It is recommended to do this as often as you can! (for me finding this out was vital as I was practically getting ill because every time I rush or am stressed, my breathing becomes very fast and shallow and it's like all the air gets stuck somewhere... )

Good breathing has a great power of healing and energy harmonising.

- another thing you can do is shift your attention every day, in any activity that you do or even when you are listening to someone, when you are watching something, to the sensations inside of your body, feel the energy in your hands, in your legs, in your chest, untill you manage to feel your whole inner body as pure energy

- allow every feeling to exist, don't deny any way that you may be feeling, just let the feelings be, try to be the conscious that is witnessing those feelings, because you, as conscience, are way way more than just a body, a mind, some feelings...

This is what meditation is about...of course, is best when you can be alone and do all this, and able to completely relax, but you can very well do it in your everyday life, and the more you practice it, the easier will be for you to do it, and you will see how everything will get so much more serene, at least :) I am at the "serene" stage, they say miracles will happen, but I can't tell you they will, as I didn't get too good at staying in the present moment all the time, so I am not there yet :) But I sure feel alot better than I used to, maybe even that is a miracle :)

Peace!

xx

Comparing yourself to others

 

 

 

I know you've learned you should compare

Yourself to others, and you swear

That many can do better than

You ever could, and made a plan

To try and fight and beat them all

But deep inside you're insecure

And think you're worthless and no good

And so you stop to hope you could

Get what will make you feel

Complete and happy, and you still

Try hard to fit in with the crowd

And that can never make you proud

But listen here, you are just one

There's no more "you"'s, you are a sun

You have to know you are on Earth

With one great purpose, from your birth!

And all the things you do or say

Are perfect in a higher way

God made you do all that for you

And for the others, so be true

To what you feel inside your soul

Do what it makes you feel like whole

Relax and never think you're less

Than any other human, bless

All things and people and enjoy

The good in life, do not destroy

The purpose that you have, you know

It may not be fame, fortune, show...

You might just be a simple guy

You shouldn't bitch and start to cry

Be sure that you are perfect just

The way you are, and that you must

Be thankful, joyful, and to try

To do your best to feel alive

The real you is just the same

As everything, it's just a game

Of forms and roles here on the Earth

And everyone has unique worth!

This has been one of the main problems in my life so far... competition, comparison to others, fighting, thinking that I was worth only as much as the things I was doing were worth, by comparison to what others were doing. Or even worse and tougher, to what I did myself in the past! It was easier to do better than many but though to do better than myself when younger and with more energy.
So, for me it was like major relief when I read all the teachings about conscience and that we really are not our ego neither our actions, form, whatever, but we are way more than that, and the best thing, we are all the same inside! We are all made of the same thing, the same thing that the whole Universe is made, behind form. So, when you see things from this point of view, any comparison becomes really useless and even funny. Comparing only the things that wont last... what's the use to that nonsense? Is pure wasted energy. We are all the same only with different missions (Karma), that have been given to us so we can evolve and get closer to perfection. It's silly to compare, noone is better than anyone, or worse, for that matter. We all have the same immortal matter in us, and the rest is going to vanish anyways, it's just a dream, you may say, a role. Comparing ourselves would be like saying about an actor that has played the bad guy in a movie that is a mean person, when he was only playing a role, of a mean person.
I hope I made some sense with this one :)
Peace!
xx