As I go about my day, I am constantly reminded of the importance of awareness. Awareness is where it's at. If we stay aware and in present time thing seem to flow. The task is not important in this context, but having our mind and our senses where are body is is important.
We are all always aware of some thing. Our senses are always at work Ignoring the present and traveling to the past or imagining the future is a habit we all indulge that hampers our ability to be here
If we are present and aware boredom is impossible. Anxiety does not exists. Worry dissolves, and we are just doing whatever we are doing. I sometimes glimpse this state. But staying in the present is the trick.
Now one of my pet peeves are people who continually bring the past, and usually negative experiences from the past, into the present. It is unclear to me why people like to punish themselves with thoughts of unhappy past events. They make the scars of childhood into a reason for adult behavior. This is just one way people suffer by not being in present time.
Dwelling on the past certainly limits the present. It limits our ability to forgive and move on to the new. It also limits what is limitless. We really have no idea of what is to happen from moment to moment. We project the future from habit and past experience, but the future at any moment is really mysterious and unknown.
Another way to avoid awareness is projecting into the future. Now this is more tricky as there is some controversy about whether our projections actually create the future. Where does phenomenology stop? Many believe in the use of affirmations in order to promote future events.
My concern is that when we project into the future, whether positive or negative, we are trying to influence something that is totally out of our control. Does the future really exist in anything except our minds? Of course there is the theory that all time, past, present, and future is present in the present. This is a bit mind boggling for me, but something that I am willing to contemplate.
The way we tell time was created by society, as an agreed upon contract. Indigenous people I'm sure had an entirely different relationship with time. For example the Mayans did not calculate time with the 12/60 formula. In the present our relationship with time is often full of stress and struggle. We never have time to do all the things we want to do. But if we stay in the present the need to do more dissolves, and we just are.
We are all always aware of some thing. Our senses are always at work Ignoring the present and traveling to the past or imagining the future is a habit we all indulge that hampers our ability to be here
If we are present and aware boredom is impossible. Anxiety does not exists. Worry dissolves, and we are just doing whatever we are doing. I sometimes glimpse this state. But staying in the present is the trick.
Now one of my pet peeves are people who continually bring the past, and usually negative experiences from the past, into the present. It is unclear to me why people like to punish themselves with thoughts of unhappy past events. They make the scars of childhood into a reason for adult behavior. This is just one way people suffer by not being in present time.
Dwelling on the past certainly limits the present. It limits our ability to forgive and move on to the new. It also limits what is limitless. We really have no idea of what is to happen from moment to moment. We project the future from habit and past experience, but the future at any moment is really mysterious and unknown.
Another way to avoid awareness is projecting into the future. Now this is more tricky as there is some controversy about whether our projections actually create the future. Where does phenomenology stop? Many believe in the use of affirmations in order to promote future events.
My concern is that when we project into the future, whether positive or negative, we are trying to influence something that is totally out of our control. Does the future really exist in anything except our minds? Of course there is the theory that all time, past, present, and future is present in the present. This is a bit mind boggling for me, but something that I am willing to contemplate.
The way we tell time was created by society, as an agreed upon contract. Indigenous people I'm sure had an entirely different relationship with time. For example the Mayans did not calculate time with the 12/60 formula. In the present our relationship with time is often full of stress and struggle. We never have time to do all the things we want to do. But if we stay in the present the need to do more dissolves, and we just are.
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