Moments turn into days, days into events and before we know it is time to say goodbye to this world we call home. Every breath I take ironically is also every breath I am closer to death. Living - celebrating life is all about being present in the moment - to be right here, right now. I am not sure about others, but my mind time travels quite frequently - builds up lives I have never lived and basically drags me away from living.
How can something as simple as living in the moment, require so much effort on our part? Is it because we are always loaded with events of the past - or because we anxious about the future? Our time is spent in planning for our future or analyzing our past. We relive our mistakes, we dwell in places that don't exist or distorted versions of past recreated by our trickster mind.
There are no easy solutions in life - in fact there are no solutions, because there are no problems. We create our hell and we have the ability to create our heaven too. Yet the mind is more programmed to create hell. Every moment that doesn't give us happiness is your mind sabotaging your life. We create our own realities - whatever I believe becomes the truth for me. And ultimately my truth will be different from others - we are all looking at the same things with different perspectives.
I am still training my mind to come home to present sooner and to stick to facts rather than fictionalizing and creating stories that would put even the soap operas to shame. It is a work in progress - the mind wanders but to speak in modern terms - I have my GPS on and make sure that it doesn't go too far from the moment.
I find that life can bring me down - negativity is powerful after all. Yet I can't stay there for long - I have too many things to be grateful for and a heart full of gratitude will always win over the mind full of doubts. Fill your heart with gratitude - fill your heart with wonder - let every sunset count, every moon rise inspire awe, and every thunderstorm make your heart race. We have been invited to this show of wonders - every day, every moment life is unfolding miracles, clouds changing shapes, mountains changing colours, sun on your skin, wind playing with your hair - step out and meet the creator.
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