Live in the present and experience a life of bliss.
I am a student of life. I was born wired to question everything and never make assumptions. I never really knew that this was unique growing up until I realized that I started taking a different path from my friends. I was noticing that I was able to pause and feel empathy towards our planet, towards others, and even our universe. This lead to a feeling of separateness which at the time became depressing.
It wasn’t until I started my intentional spiritual journey that I realized that where your focus goes, your energy flows. If you tend to focus on the yin and not the yang, then that manifests itself as your way of thinking. Instead, I began to pivot my attention on the true holistic nature of our universe. The duality of oneness juxtaposed by nothingness and creation. It changed my life forever, and to this day it shapes my way of thinking in everything I do.
Greed, laziness, resentment, you name it; it’s all caused by what I consider drama. My definition of drama relies on expectation of how things will be in the future and expectation of how things should have been in the past. These missed or false expectations are what breed negative types of feelings and oftentimes are results of things completely out of my personal control.
For instance, why should I work 40 hours a week? Well if it doesn’t make me happy, then I shouldn’t. But, the reasons it might not make me happy are based in a mindset that holds risk of drumming up negative emotions caused by drama.
Why is the present, the now, so important? The exact present holds no drama and thus cannot hold negativity. When I look inside myself, the present is all that exists. I am no longer the person I was 5 seconds, 10 minutes, or years ago. I am also not the person I am becoming 5 seconds, 10 minutes, or years from now. You and I are exactly this moment, and this moment alone.
So it’s simple, I live my life in the only place where expectation cannot be judged or cannot unfold. Right now I am a manifestation of the duality of the universe regardless of what I am physically doing. So as long as I am centered on the present during any of my actions, then there is no way around a centered blissful approach to everything I do and everything I do becomes blissful and centered.
When I think of working 40 hours a week, it’s not about if want to or I don’t want to, it’s that I’m here right now doing it or I’m not. As long as I stay present in what I’m doing, there is no room for the mundane to be noticed.
