The Importance of Living Your Life in Present Time - 11/8/07

You hear a lot of advice about living in the present and being in the now, but what does that really mean. According to Carolyn Myss (a well known teacher and medical intuitive), it means bringing back the pieces of your spirit that have left your body and continue to energize your past or your possible futures.

Let's say for purposes of this discussion that you have 100 units of your spirit that are available for your use in your everyday life. When your eyes first pop open in the morning and you start thinking about your day, watch what areas of your life you think about. Picture them as rooms and you are going down the hall turning the lights on or walking past the doors.

Do you think about the problem employee at work that you have to have a discussion with later? You are sending some of your spiritual units ahead to prepare for that meeting.

Let's also say you have to fly to Los Angeles later in the week and you're terrified of flying. Fear of flying will get lit up by your spirit.

Now throw in your bad childhood, relationships, that time you got fired unfairly and you can see where before you even leave the house in the morning, 50% of your spiritual energy could be focused outside of your body and not available for use in present time.

If you then run into traffic problems, irritable people, money problems, or not feeling well, or you're caring for a sick loved one. It could be that there isn't much of you left available for you.

This takes a real toll on your physical body and can manifest in illness if substantive change isn't made in time.

Of course some of this is unavoidable, but you can make a huge difference in how much energy you have available by letting what happened to you in the past go. Its over, you were a child and couldn't help you. Open your prison door and let yourself out. They can't hurt you in the present. You can't change what happened, you can forgive; or if you can't forgive, turn it over to God. If the trauma happened to you as an adult, you have the same power to turn it over. It happened to you, but it doesn't define who you are.

In my own life I find that if I stay in present time, I can find the simple pleasure in being here with my husband and enjoy our life together. If I allow my mind to energize our past too much, I spend the day crying. If I energize the future without him, the sadness overwhelms me. And so I say "I am right here, right now, in this house in this time. All is well."

It will take you time to build the practice of knowing where your spirit is in time and calling it back. Its not easy, but it will make dramatic changes in your life if you can become more aware. When you are aware of what you're doing to yourself, you have choices. You can choose to live.