The GIFT of PRESENCE

The 'PRESENT' is exactly that! A GIFT that resonates JOY! Too often it is lost to a 1000 other thoughts.

The universe surrounds us with teachers to deliver precious reminders, you just need to be conscious ......

In the present we focus on one thing and then the magic unfolds!

A fifty Watt light bulb can light a room.

(Our brains working on a task while thinking/worrying about all the other things we have to get done.) Multi Tasking.

A 50 watt laser can cut through steal.

(The present mind.)

When all of your attention and focus is in the present moment, no worry or regret generated from thoughts about the past or the future. Time generated thinking is not aloud to slip in. Suddenly you have a huge amount of extra focus and energy to solve problems.

Chanel that energy.

Time is nothing. It's a man made thing that was designed to help structure a day. But time has become everyone's enemy. It always feels like it is being taken away from us. When really it didn't exists at all.

Time is merely a projection into the future or the past.

We can either search for salvation in the future, or experience regret in the past. In the present moment there is no future or past just that moment. Decisions are made right away, Innately. There is no time lag.

You cannot fix what is in the future. And worry about something you cannot control generates anxiety. Yet we worry about all the thing we have to do tomorrow or in half an hour. Before we know it we lose ourselves in our minds. Its exhausting, and leaves us with little energy left to deal with the actual things that are happening around us.

We can't live in the future or the past nothing happens in the future or the past. It all happens in the present moment. So be present!

It's all really in the name P R E S E N T! It's a gift that takes most of our unnecessary suffering away and frees us to be our natural best selves.

Are you searching for happiness? Stop searching! Happiness exists in this present moment!.

Animals don't live in any moment other than the present one. They live and die in the moment. Only humans live in their minds trapped in limbo fluctuating between future and past, fear and anxiety in the future, regret and sorrow in the past.

The past consistently visited to reaffirm our sense of self. The future the answer to our dreams and promise of happiness. True happiness lives in the present moment.

That is why I surf, you cannot catch a wave and be in complete harmony with Mother Nature and be stressing about the Friday report due. The situation demands your full attention. You have to be in the moment.

That's why I love sport because to be good at sport is just to be fully focused on the game. Present in the moment.

That's why I love jumping off cliff and public speaking and any other challenge because it anchors me to the present moment, that's why I like to be in nature, because in nature time disappears as you slowly connect to your surrounding like an animal. The concept of time slips away with the fading noise of cars, , and with it the constant reminder of time and the lack of it.

That's why I love camping. That's why I love travelling, with no plan you have to surrender to the universe and be in the moment, responding innately to the opportunities that come your way in the form of people and relationships. The present moment is where the real magic lies.

When I participate in those endeavours I naturally slip into the present moment, it's less about the things and more about the presents. I have connected the amazing feeling with the endeavour rather than the process in which I carry out that endeavour. That realisation is excitingly liberating. I don't need to do anything, I can train myself to be present right now right where I am!

Time is a tool which we need to use to our advantage flick it on and off to our advantage. Our constant state should be in the present with fluctuations into the future and the past. Goal setting and forward planning. Learning and Reminiscing . We shouldn't however let ours lives become a tool to time. Energy flows where attention goes. If we are focussed on not having enough time then that is what we will get. The energy flowing towards that will cause that to be the case. The law of attraction will make it so.

Find the present moment. I Dare you!