present moment

To stay in the now you have to love yourself, part 5

By Peter Crowell 2 Comments

Presence is a kind of prayer state. The more present you are the more pure your experience of simple being.

That’s what presence is: simple being with focused consciousness.

You simply are. And you know it.

Presence is not spooky or ghostly. There’s no buzz or euphoria. It’s nothing unusual.

The fuller it is the more normal it seems. It’s just you getting up in the morning.

But really doing it.

It’s ordinary on steroids.

Really, really ordinary.

So ordinary it’s mind blowing.

It’s you and the world as they really are.

Full tilt awareness of that which is.

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Self love and staying in the now, part 4

By Peter Crowell 10 Comments

You can learn a lot from distraction. The thoughts that keep recurring. The desires that pull you.

These things are information about how you are inside.

About aspects of you that need expression and haven’t found it yet.

In the present, if you observe, you’ll see your attitudes and orientations. The involuntary aspects of you that may or may not serve.

Stories about the past.

Stories about the future.

Stories about others.

Stories about yourself.

They show up as potential distraction. Little chances to wander away from the present into fantasy.

With work you can notice them, isolate them, heal them, and integrate them so that they no longer distort your perspective or have a negative effect on your experience.

To remain in the now you have to love yourself, part 3

By Peter Crowell 29 Comments

Fullness of life involves openness to whatever life hands you.

Hard.

Easy.

Whatever.

The only way to experience life with balance and completion is to be all in. Each aspect of you. Nothing left in the cupboard.

Nothing ignored, rejected, forbidden, forgotten or lost.

The fury, the lust, the child-like animation, the reliability, the volatility, the tendency to be late.

It’s all you.

Unleash your full self by practicing the now, part 3

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Engaging in the now is a rigorous undertaking. It’s where all experience happens: pain and pleasure, insecurity and fear, creativity and joy.

The more time you spend in the now, the more you experience yourself as you really are.

No matter how distracted you are, nature will drag you into the now from time to time, with sudden sudden pain or joy.

By developing your sense of self, you can learn to return to the now on purpose.

You can engage in the rigors of the now willingly, more frequently, until residing in the now comes to characterize your experience.

It takes practice and it takes work.

But you can become at home in the now.

And doing that has a huge positive impact on your life.

Unleash your full self by practicing the now, part 1

By Peter Crowell 4 Comments

The present moment is the glue of the universe.

It’s where all creativity becomes anchored. It’s where all relationships happen. And it’s the dwelling place of our real, unvarnished selves.

You can tap into that underlying energy and channel it into the world. But you can only do that in the present moment. Because that access requires conscious, deliberate choice.

To be in the present moment is to participate in the energy that underlies all things.

Love.

The present moment is love itself, abiding, watching us come an go, lamenting our departure, awaiting our return.

To practice the present moment is to allow the Great Making to extend itself through you, to take on unique, specific, unrepeatable shape in the form of you.