Trying to Stay Focused

Living In The Now

There is no human who can live each and every minute in the present. It is a high goal to reach for, and if you don’t set goals, you don’t stretch your capabilities. It is not the failure to perform perfectly that is the mistake, it is not striving or trying.

One moment appears to fly by so quickly, that in five minutes, everything you perceive, will be a memory, and the instant it turns into the past it begins the process of rearrangement within your mind.

If you do not try to focus on that food you are eating, you might forget after you ate it what it was. Was that an apple I just ate or a pear? You might listen with only one ear, nodding your head, making grunts, but never listening to the person relaying some information to you. You might be thinking of what you did yesterday or last year or twenty years ago, or you might be thinking of far off places.

The future cannot be seen because it is as elusive as the past, which constantly keeps updating within the mind. Paths intersect in unforeseen ways to shape each moments of the future, with so many unpredictable potentials. Large areas of your life can be missed, by failing to focus on each moment of time. Much day dreaming is an attempt to escape the mundane and unwanted situations we find ourselves confronted with, but those are the times we need our full focus the most.

No experience repeats, since even while trying to recreate or repeat the past, it cannot be accomplished, as the same set of circumstances never can come together in just the same unique fashion. That makes every experience a one of kind. Instead of looking at what you are doing as boring or ordinary, try looking at each moment as a never to be repeated special event.

If you are eating dinner, try to savor the flavor of the foods. Consciously be grateful that you have food, and try to forget any troubles on the horizon. It will aid your digestion and keep you focused on the reason you are eating, to sustain your body, not to indulge in a pig out of gulping down food and rushing off.

There is a balance that must be struck between enjoying the senses that we are granted by Intelligent Infinity, and depriving ourselves of pleasure. Indulging and depriving are just two poles on opposite ends, of one thing. The mistake that ascetics make, is not to recognize that if God did not want senses with which to enjoy life, they would not exist. Those on the opposite end feel life is just one sensory pleasure after another, and nothing else matters except the current or future pleasure. Of course they have the free will to do so, but the balanced view, living in the moment, and enjoying sight, hearing, touch, and taste and smell, must be balanced with another sense, which is often missed. This is the internal sense of balance, which allows pleasure, but also sees restraint when appropriate.

Focusing on each moment as it passes will help to develop this discernment. The mind is thus engaged on what you are doing, not what you did or are going to do, and mindless robotic habits are less likely to take over. You are even able to see these habits, maybe for the first time. Did I really drink all that coffee without realizing and now I am jumpy?

You might be able to see that wallpaper in your office is bamboo not leaves; that the breeze is blowing the trees gently outside, or that life is good, when you allow tomorrows troubles to remain in tomorrow. Likely they will work themselves out tomorrow, and all that extra energy being anxious drained you and produced nothing.

You might even notice a few birds, or really listen to the lyrics playing on the radio, instead of just a drone in the background. You can stop and listen to your own heart beating, smell the aroma of flowers as you pass, instead of missing experiences, because you are caught up in a loop of inner plans and troubles.

You might have walked down that hall hundreds of times, but now you observe everything, the weave of the carpet, the laughter coming out of offices, and when you walk outside, you enjoy even more things you missed in the unconscious world of mental zombification.

As I said in the beginning, no human can do this perfectly, in fact perfection is a myth. But, you can strive to stay focused, when you come to the end of your existence on this world, you can look back with crisp, fully formed memories of life, instead of wispy shadows of life.

Humans are here to experience life in a balanced way as a gift to the Creator, who sees, feels, touches, smells and hears simultaneously with every human being and every consciousness. If your gift is whole and you experience every moment fully, you are creating, but if you miss experience, because you are living in the past or future, this is a poor quality gift, lacking in the very things we all came here to experience.

It’s every humans choice, to experience life, on a conscious level or an unconscious level. The universe sends synchronicities, now more than ever, and those unfocused miss those messages due to preoccupations or distractions. The truism, you will shall never pass this way again, is accurate, as you will never again, have this one moment; this one opportunity, which is before you.


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Remember ~
Be Here Now...

I appreciate you always showing up on my threads Moose. Even just saying Love does mean a lot to me........love and peace to your path.....

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