THIS MOMENT

I got the opportunity to deal with many numbers of clients who have the chronic stress. Eventually, they all pose with some kind of psychosomatic illness such migraine, anxiety, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases etc. With all these people when I posted one single question. “Right now, at this very moment, in this split of the second, do you have stress? Uniformly, the answers were NO. I am now asking the same question to you now. Do you feel stressed at this very moment, this split of the second? If the answer is NO then we have the answer to handle stress. 

When we live in THIS present moment, we don’t feel stressed. Let us live the same way the next moment. We will not feel stressed in that moment too. Let us then extrapolate this pattern of living from moment to moment from now on. We will not be stressed out lifelong. But, this is not as simple as it looks.

The biggest hurdle to living in the present moment is caused by our own mind. At any given point of time, the mind has the movement. It moves from the past to future and future to past without stopping in this present moment. It is like a clock pendulum that swings from one end to another with a brief crossing at the neutral point. Both the ends of the swing are the locus of the past and future and the neutral point is the present moment.

Take an example of driving the car to the office. Strictly speaking, we need to be in the experience of driving the car, how we handle the break, gear and how we manage the traffic, how we follow the rules of the traffic etc. There is no great conscious effort is required in doing all of those above activities as we have repeated the driving for many years. So, naturally, we work on a kind of autopilot mode and do all those actions without any conscious effort. The mind is now free to fast forward to the event that is going to happen in the office or rewind to the past event that happened back at the home. This is the mind pendulum action.

Chronic stress is a construct of our mind. The pendulum action of the mind is the cause. Mind constructs the meaning from our own past experiences and projects those in the future. We need to train the mind to work in the present moment. This is again a skill and it is a learnable skill.

Alive: Mind seeks what we don’t have. There are so many other things which we have. But, still, the mind looks for something which we don’t have.

This is the effect of the distinctive attribute that human species possess which is called CURIOSITY. There is nothing wrong in becoming curious in life but on the other hand, one should develop the ability to be of grateful of what one possesses.

The value of the leg is known only after we break our leg in an accident. Until the time, the leg functionality is taken for granted. Human system and in general, this entire universe are complete orchestrated system and cherish the experiences of these every moment.

So, do not cherish stress, hectic life and so on. There is a flip side to it. Cultivate our awareness to cherish those other fine experiences to which we have taken those for granted. For an instant, in this moment, we are alive. In spite of all those ups and downs of the life, the life force is pretty much active in this very moment. Is it not a magic? It is the greatest realization.

But, have you realized this wonderful gift? Let us try to realize this by increasing the level of our awareness. Cherish life