Move into the Present Moment

Posted on September 23rd, 2009

clarityAs spiritual beings we can be in the past, present and future all at once if we choose, but as human beings, our bodies can only be in the present moment. Our thinking mind can reflect on the past and plan for the future, but it only has real power in the present. If we spread our attention and energy in too many places at once, including the past and future, it can be overwhelming for the body, leaving it feeling tired, depleted and scattered. Moving into the present moment calms the mind calms and relaxes the body.

When we have all of our energy in the body and focus our mental attention in the present moment - into what’s happening here and now - we create balance. The body, mind and soul work together as a team and we step into the flow of life instead of going against it. We become energized and productive, yet relaxed and peaceful at the same time. From this place we have full access to our intuition and can listen to our inner voice for guidance.

Align Body, Mind and Soul 

Allow the body to be in the present moment. The easiest way to align the body is to be present with it at every moment. The body can be vulnerable to foreign energy including others emotions, judgments and agendas if we don’t occupying our physical space with our own energy. Ever have a feeling of heaviness, suppression or an uncomfortable emotion that doesn’t feel as though it belongs to you? Most likely it doesn’t - while you were off in a million directions, someone else’s ’stuff’ wandered into your space.

All that is required is to consciously bring your energy back into your space and have the intention of releasing the foreign energy. Because what we resist persists, being in a state of ease and amusement are the best ways to release. Try these two energy exercises as a way to bring back your energy and release what is not yours.

♦ Call back your energy. Close your eyes, center within and create an image of a clear gold sun five or six feet above your head. Let this gold sun act as a magnet to pull back all of your energy that is spread out in other projects, people and circumstances. Then bring this gold sun, with all of your energy, down through the top of your head and into your body. Notice what it feels like as you refill with your own energy.

♦ Cleanse your space. While centered and grounded, create an image of a gold shower nozzle a few feet above your head. Turn it on and let it shower gold energy through your body and aura energy space, releasing down your grounding. Gold is a high vibration and will move out any energy that doesn’t belong in your space. Notice how refreshing this feels.

Bring the mind into the present moment. Rehashing past conversations and rehearsing future ones, reminiscing over past pleasant and painful experiences, and planning for the future is what the mind spends most of it’s time doing if it’s left in charge. Like an untrained dog, it races about trying to control the household while causing chaos at every turn. When the soul takes charge of the mind, it becomes a very useful tool. Try the following as a way to harness the mind.

♦ Focus on the here and now. Throughout the day, if you notice you are feeling scattered or weary, bring your attention back into where you are and what you are doing. Notice your surroundings - the colors, shapes, sounds and smells. Then bring awareness into the body - feel sensations and current emotions. Focus on the activity or person you are with. Ignore the pull to wander in other directions, just stay with the here and now.

♦ Move into the present moment. Close your eyes and create an image of a knob or dial out in front of you, that can rotate from left to right. Let the far left side of the dial represent the past, the far right side represent the future, and the center represent the present. Where do you spend most of your time - let the dial reflect that. Move the dial to the center with the intention that as you do this, all of your energy will move into the present moment. Notice how this feels. Any time you feel lost in the past or future, create an image of a dial and turn it to the center to assist you in bringing your energy back to the present.

Align with your soul here and now. The soul is the center of your being. It is your ultimate reality; you came into this body as a spiritual being and you will one day leave this body as the same being. The mind may try to take control with constant thinking and the body may dominate at times with strong emotions, but as you own your spiritual essence, you become spiritually senior and everything comes into alignment, including living in the present moment. Aside from staying centered, reading and listening to spiritual and inspirational material, and practicing spiritual principles such as honesty, kindness and acceptance, the main way to align with the soul is through meditation. Try the following as a way to meditate.

♦ Meditate daily. Meditation has many benefits for physical, emotional and mental health, but most importantly, it creates a space to know and operate from your spiritual self. This is where you learn to become senior to the thinking mind. Sit with eyes closed in a relaxed, yet awake position. Bring your awareness into the center of your head and say hello to yourself. Watch thoughts float by and sensations come and go, until you are able to rest in a place of stillness. After meditation, take this stillness with you and return to it as needed throughout the day.

As you align your body, mind and soul into the present moment, you will feel empowered, energized and clear.

Do you have any questions or additional insights to share on how to move into the present moment? Please share below.


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7 Responses to “Move into the Present Moment”

  1. Mary Says:
    October 2nd, 2009 at 10:43 am

    Regarding “align the body”, I wish to bring your attention to “Hara”. Today the closest thing would be “core”, but Durckheim”s book speaks clearly to body alignment as a psychologist and student of Zen Buddhism for many years. I have attached a page from the introduction.

    Hara: the vital center of man (from the introduction)
    Originally published in Germany in 1956

    The purpose of this book is to lead the reader to the essence and meaning of Hara. It is directed not only to professional therapists and medical men but to everyone who is a seeker, or a teacher who is entrusted in any way with the shaping and educating of others. The theoretical analysis of Hara, as well as its practice in the service of self-development, touch at every point on problems dealt with daily by spiritual advisers and professional psychologists. It may therefore be useful to make some remarks on how Hara relates to present day psychology and psychotherapy.
    It becomes clearer and clearer that every neurosis conceals a universal human problem—the problem of ripening. In its deepest sense ripening means the same thing both for the sound and the unsound, that is, the progressive integration of the individual with being, his essence, wherein he takes part in the great Being. For the neurotic the possibility of finding his essence is merely obstructed in a peculiar way because of his substitution mechanisms.
    Immaturity, un-ripeness, is the cancer of our time, the incapacity to ripen the specific mark of our time. The neurosis which drives the spiritually sick to the therapist is simply the clearest expression of the universal suffering, the suffering due to man’s estrangement from Being! The specific symptoms of such suffering are, in all cases, stopping points and blind alleys on the return to Being. Healthy and unhealthy alike are to be understood as “on the way”—hence never statically, but always in the perspective of their becoming one with their being. So it comes to this, that as in the East since time immemorial between pupil and master, so today between sound person and his spiritual counselor, between a “disturbed” person and his therapist—all are seeking, over and above any psychological aid, a firm metaphysical foundation for life. A longing for their being moves them all. They seek resonance and guidance out of a need which is not only constitutional and personal but which involves their whole existence. Such need requires more than “psychology”.
    Modern man suffers from his immaturity and causes suffering to all around him. What we are called to do is to restore him to the context of the Greater Life, to un-lock the door to at-one-ment with the wellsprings of his existence, and to show him the way to give expression to his contact with Being through a life-affirming attitude. For there is a way to be trodden by actual practice.

  2. ginigrey Says:
    October 2nd, 2009 at 12:51 pm

    Thank you Mary for taking the time to include the text from the introduction of Durckheim’s book. It’s wordy stuff but I understand the essence of it to mean we are all in a process of connecting to our Source and that physical suffering is one avenue that can take us there if we are conscious with it.

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    April 25th, 2010 at 11:50 am

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  4. Wan Says:
    April 27th, 2011 at 12:13 am

    Keep posting,help people to evluate their innerbeing.
    Have a nice day.

  5. Georgie Says:
    November 1st, 2011 at 2:31 am

    This article was just the kind of prop I need. Six months into a relationship breakdown (after 29 years), I am now alone but actually feeling light and liberated on the whole. Even bursts of happiness, although I don’t know whether we can repair our marriage and I’m 63 so the future looks bleak otherwise. I am dealing with my lost self-esteem and depressive moods (that probably lasted two years). I have started to learn to think what I want, not what others want or what I think they do. I need to develop an alternative plan, to decide how my life should be for me, which is breaking the habit of a lifetime and my early childhood training to think of others before myself.
    But yesterday I whirled like a dervish all day, accomplishing hardly anything. A little bit of this, a little of that; but nothing finished. That is depressing. I already tried one of your exercises and maybe I will buy From Chaos to Calm. Or another suggestion?

  6. Gini Grey Says:
    November 4th, 2011 at 4:25 pm

    Hello Georgie,

    That’s great that you are learing to put what you want first in your life. So many of us have been raised to put others first or what we think they want from us etc. only to be frustrated or hurt, and then we learn to put ourselves first which serves everyone in the long run as we are being authentic.

    We all have those days where we get scattered, but if it is a habit for you then my book, From Chaos to Calm can help you to see your patterns and shift them (which might be helpful for changing your pattern of putting others first if you use the exercises with that focus). But if you want to learn tools for being centered and grounded (relating to articles on my site) you might find my audio program on Energy Balancing Tools helpful. Go to the site http://ginigrey.com/spiritualenergy/ and see if it sounds like a fit for you.

    Sometimes just getting outdoors into nature for a walk or some exercise can be helpful for either burning off energy or getting energized and balancing the body and mind so try that too.

    Take care,

    Gini

  7. JIT BISWA Says:
    January 21st, 2012 at 8:45 am

    Thanks Gini for this beautiful writing. all along through my childhood to this moment I have been trying to experience this bliss of being in the present moment. Your writing really buttressed my belief in Living my life in Present moment.
    Thanks.

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