And what is your experience of Meditation and Mindfulness.

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There is never a time when your life is not “this moment”. Is that not a fact?
So break the pattern of present moment denial and present moment resistance.
The moment you realise you are not present, you are present.

Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. Make it your friend and ally, not your enemy. And then act. This will miraculously change your life.

You will not be free of pain until you cease to derive your sense of self from identification with the mind which is the ego. One of the main tasks of the mind is to fight or remove emotional pain, which is one of the reasons for its incessant activity. But all it can ever achieve is to cover emotional pain up temporarily. In fact the harder the mind struggles to get rid of the pain, the greater the pain.

The mind can never find the solution nor can it afford to allow you to find the solution because it is itself an intrinsic part of the “problem”.

Your life situation exists in time – it is just mind stuff. These are your problems of job, relationships and health etc. Your life on the other hand is Now and is Real. And you cannot be both unhappy and fully present in the Now.

To be free of time means to be free of the psychological need of the past for your identity and the future for your fulfilment.

If you are unhappy in your current situation, you have three choices – to move, to change the situation or accept it. Choose one of these three and then accept the consequences with no excuses and keep your inner space clear. Any action is often better than no action. But if no action is possible then surrender and lose all resistance.

Try this
Shut your eyes and ask yourself when you think you might have your next thought.

Presence is about alertness and watchfulness – like a cat or a bodyguard. Beyond the mind there is an awesome recognition of nature and interconnectedness. Could it be that this nameless essence and your presence are the same thing? Would it be there without your presence? Go deeply into it. Find out for yourself.

True consciousness is to discard form and realise that everything (including a stone) is part of being or God essence.

If a fish was born in your tank and you gave him a name (John) and a birth certificate and then he was eaten by a bigger fish – then that would be tragic. But it is not tragic if you see that the fish was not separate in the first place.

In present day humans, consciousness is completely identified with its form (disguise).

So close your eyes and begin to feel the subtle life force energy in your body – in your limbs, your organs and your every cell. As you focus you will find your body becomes more and more alive. You may get a sense of its luminous quality. But always focus on the feeling – of limitlessness, formlessness and being unfathomable.

And try this:
Last thing at night and first thing in the morning, flood your body with consciousness. Choose different parts of your body. Feel the life force as intensely as you can. Stay with each part for 15 secs. Then let your attention run through your body like a wave. Then feel the inner body in its totality as a single field of energy. be intensely present in every cell in your body.

In relationships, listen with your whole body – i.e. go out of your mind to awareness.
Go deeply into the body – in meditation you become away and feel a sense of beingness which is not the body. This is the inner body without boundaries. Merge with this and lose duality

As you recognise that all is change and that your happiness does not depend on fixity, then your life will develop a flow and ease. You may not be happy but be at peace.

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Discover which of these virtues most clearly resonate with you.

Wisdom – curiosity, love of learning, judgement. ingenuity, emotional intelligence and perspective
Courage – Valour, Perseverance, Integrity
Humanity – Kindness, Loving
Justice – Citizenship, Fairness, Leadership
Temperance – Self control. Prudence, Humility
Transcendence – Gratitude, Hope, Spirituality, Forgiveness, Humour, Zest

Divinity With or Without God
There is a third dimension for all human beings beyond ourselves and our relationships with others. That is our divine or moral part – activated by ritual and work to purify ourselves and is evident in the emotion of Elevation – which lightens hearts.

It is worth striving for the right relationships between yourself and others, between yourself and your work and between yourself and something larger than yourself. If you get these relationships right then a sense of purpose and meaning will emerge.

It really does not matter what we expect of life – rather what does life expect from us – moment by moment, day by day. Life’s meaning is concrete just as are life’s tasks.The meaning of life is discovered in the world rather than from within.

We create meaning by

• Work and action
• By experiencing something or encountering someone notably through the experience of love and the transcendent
• By our attitude to unavoidable suffering – then we are challenged to change ourselves.