Focus on The Present
Take a look at these three everyday, common dialogues, that we often participate in:
1.
- “Hi, such a long time! What are you doing?”
- “Well, I’m finishing my high school studies”
- “Will you go to University then?”
- “Well, yes, I expect to go to University X because I want to become a Y (profession).”
2.
- “Hi, how are you? How is Mr./Miss X?”
- “Oh, we are doing great. We are planning to get married by the end of the year”
- “Oh, that’s great! Congratulations! Will you make a big party?…”
3.
- “How are you doing?”
- “So so. I have been having health problems for the past months. I’m on a special diet, I have problems to….”
I believe these three examples of dialogues show an aspect many of us need to improve in our lives: our focus.
For some reasons, that I believe are educational, we tend to focus on the future. We devote a lot of time, energy, and dialogues to what we will do in the future. Besides, it is quite often that what we will do is tightly linked to conditions that are not completely certain. The result, then, is that we are focusing on something that will happen in the future if something else happens in the future. Yes, and that is what we focus our attention and energy on.
Having the future in mind is all very well, but our top priority had better be what, where, how, and who we are now.
If we are in high school, we had better enjoy every minute of it, because it is one stage of our lives that will not repeat itself. At a smaller scale, every single year, day, and hour of highschool is special and impossible to repeat.
If we have a child, every single moment with that child is unique, and it is so for every single experience we live: if we meet a new person; if we are at our jobs; if we take a shower; if we go to the beach.
Are you living in the present?
How are you now? Where are you now? How is your body right now? What do you hear? How does the room you are in smell? Do you have anyone or anything you love next to you at this precise moment?
As much as I recommend visualizing to create the (future) life you want, I invite you to sense yourself right now and thank for everything positive you are right now, you experience right now, you live right now.
A hypothetical situation: You lived all your life in a place where you were surrounded by orange trees that offered you delicious fruit. Those oranges were really tasteful and you loved them but because the only thing you had to do was extend your arm to pick them, you took them so much for granted that you rarely ate one of those delicious oranges. One day, something happens, and you don’t have access to the oranges anymore: either you moved, or the orange trees fell ill, or you fell ill and your body does not accept oranges anymore. How would you feel? Would you long for them? Would you feel frustrated because you wanted to eat one delicious orange but you cannot find them anymore?
Well, although this was a hypothetical example, I must say that I have already lived this with food: the chickens I used to eat at my childhood house in the fields were tasteful and healthy while nowadays I’ve been recommended to avoid chicken due to the many hormones they are fed on. Carrots, apples, corn, tomatoes, and bananas were a thousand times more tasteful when I was a child than they are today, and so on.
But leaving food aside and just learning the moral, I am urged to say “take advantage of what you have now.” Enjoy what you are living now. Thank everything good that you have today. In short: live now.
Christopher Westra, owner of sites:
http://DietForAHappyPlanet.com (Energize Your Body)
http://RoyaltiesUniversity.com (Earn Perpetual Income)
http://ICreateProfits.com (100 Steps to Online Profits)
that are extremely useful and interesting, suffers from an illness, not too much known, that is called Lyme Disease. Recently he wrote: “Be grateful if you can digest your food without pain. Be grateful if your brain chemicals work properly. Enjoy it if you can do one task, and then another, and another through the day, rather than “crash” every few hours from literal exhaustion. Don’t take it for granted that your bones are strong and healthy.”
And I add, do not wait until you are ill to value your health. Do not wait until you have lost your loved ones to tell them how important they are. Do not wait until nothing to anything!
Life seems to be eternal but it is not. We will all be old some day, then dead. It is now that we are young and alive.
Before closing this post I’d like to share this link to HealFromLyme.com that you may share with anyone you may know who suffers from Lyme Disease or anyone who may know someone who suffers from this disease. It has information and tips that would surely help them.
If you find this issue of focusing on and living the present interesting and you want to read related posts, you may like the following that I wrote at Attracting The Best:
October 19, 2009
Tags: personal development Posted in: feel good, group visualization, intents and purposes, la meditación, meditation, personal development, personal development books, personal development goals, personal goals, tus intenciones
2 Responses
I wish getting over a broken wallet can be so easy as following a few steps.. but its not?
Thanks for letting me know your impressions. I do assure you that everything is as “easy” as feeling good about what you want to attract, also about what you already have. If you are broken and you want/need more money, the solution is to feel good about your abundance, about how much money you “already” have in your wallet, and about yourself. The tricky thing at times is to feel good. I know that very well. I have been there in the past and I still find myself there at times. But if you know that the trick is to feel good, then all it takes is to feel good and like “magic” things happen around you and you attract whatever you wanted.
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