The Time Is Now!

“Come on! Hurry up,” I say to my mother every time I walk out of the apartment. “We’re going to be late!” It’s as if, I think, that I’m going to miss what’s up ahead if I don’t hurry and get everyone else with me to mirror my gate. In some ways, this is great. We want to look forward to the future with clear dreams, but not at the expense of missing the present.

Everything you know and feel is in this moment. If you don’t experience this moment fully, then you never get it back, no matter how many selfies you take of it. Remembering a moment and experiencing a moment are two very different feelings.

For some peculiar reason I have been having optical issues for seven months, ever since I went on a cruise to the Caribbean. I have had swelling in my iris that causes redness and itchiness. All of the expensive eyedrops that were prescribed cause my vision to be blurred, because they contain steroids. As a result, I now own three pair of different prescription glasses, because I simply don’t know how impaired my vision will be on any given day.

I have had to get my tear ducts cleared three times, which involves sticking a four-inch needle into my eye and flushing the duct with saline solution. It’s an awful feeling. If I don’t get this done, I look as though I’m crying all the time. The entire incident with my eyes has caused me to really pray and meditate about what needs to change in my life, because I’m absolutely sure there must be a metaphor somewhere in this mess that I simply haven’t seen. (Just by rereading this discovery I see about ten metaphors already. See if you spot them!)

I tell you all of this, because, sometimes, the now is not the most pleasant place to be. Sometimes, the now can be rife with questions and even pain. But the most important place to exist is in this present moment. Now holds all of the information in the universe you need to exist and transform your life. So, three days ago, I decided, after seven months of medication stopping the symptoms, that I was going to quit taking the eye drops and try feeling the problem again, maybe this time with a clearer mind.

When I first got the symptoms, I was on vacation. But, soon after, my live-in partner decided he wasn’t sure that I was the person he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, so he moved out. In some ways, I feel that the blurriness was telling me that the loving and kind behavior I saw from my partner on that vacation needed a closer look. I didn’t listen to the voice inside and was blind-sided by his sudden need to move out and move on. His decision was precise and authentic. I give him praise for knowing what he wanted. But my present moment was rightly eschewed as a result of his reality. So, I began taking medication right about then.

I’m in a different place now. I feel free and more powerful than I have in many years. So, I’m not reluctant at all to try this experiment with my eyes. The worst-case scenario is that I get back on the eye drops again. But…

“I know that God is all wholeness and that no illness exists in the plane of spirit. I proclaim that I am a part of this magnificent and healing Oneness of God and Spirit. As I feel thankful for this understanding, I treat for my own illness with clarity and perfect eye sight, as Jesus, the Master said, ‘Physician, heal thyself!’”

After I speak into existence my own healing, I release my prayer to the one God who wants all good and healing for me. I know this to be true. I know this to be right and true for you as well. So, I’m going to ask you to pray this prayer with me today. Let’s all pray for each other and watch the evidence of prayer change our world.

 

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I May Not Be There Yet!

I May Not Be There Yet!

Life is a journey. Some people find a destination and their entire life is about attaining goals: retirement, financial goals, the perfect job, that one lasting relationship. But the truth is that if you don’t make life about the path toward the goal, you miss much of the beauty of life.

I remember when I first started writing books. I wanted to get that fantastic book deal, helping me leap to fame and fortune. Everything I did was moving toward that goal. I queried agents, publishers, and managers. If I got one rejection letter, I would send another letter out trying to get noticed.

When I would receive a rejection letter, it was as if everything in life stopped for a while, until I got the energy to begin writing again. I’d start that next book with better characters, a more significant plot, and the page-turning story every publisher seemed to look for. But my head was stuck in a hole. I made a subconscious deal with myself that I wouldn’t be happy until I got that perfect publishing deal. So, I wasn’t happening.

“No matter where you go, there you are. But everyone has to be some place.” (Anonymous)

“The question is not why are you busy. Ants are busy. But what are you busy about?”(Anonymous)

Then one day I read The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. In the book Tolle talked about living everyday in the present. He suggested that all of life was in the now—the joy, the reality, the pain, the angst—everything existed right in this moment. If you lived in the future or in the past, you missed all of life.

I began to assess that idea, considering my own life and my own goals. I decided that I would try to release all that no longer served my life and fill it with present happiness. If I didn’t feel like writing or didn’t have a purpose in writing, I simply wouldn’t. If I wasn’t happy with the present, I would face it head on, instead of avoiding it with monumental goals that might never be achieved.

In doing so, I faced the greatest challenge of all, accepting what is—accepting what God had put on my plate to face and consume mentally and physically in each moment. When I began to do this, I learned that karmically, things began to change in my life. I seemed to immerse myself in the moment and take from the present all that God had to give. Even the challenges became a part of this wonderful path that Spirit creates to get us to move toward our ultimate goals in life.

Take the time to breathe today and feel your body, the moment, and your present situation. Face it head on. Don’t anticipate the future. Let God unfold your life like the perfect book that you are co-writing with Spirit. Let every day be that page turner. Immerse your senses into the now with everything you got and watch spirit live and move and breathe through your being like a living organism or truth.

And so it is.

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Mayflower

Mayflower

I remember the ship that sailed across the mysterious seas from England to find America—which really had never been lost. The idea that the world was flat and, if one sailed far enough, there was a chance of slipping off of the end of the earth to a tragic death must have been incredibly frightening to the captain and those passengers aboard the Mayflower.

But my thought today was less about the history of finding America and more about why England named their ship The Mayflower. As I sit by my living room window and gaze at the May flowers blooming, it occurred to me that the possibility of naming a ship after the idea of new spring beginnings is a great name, especially since the ship’s intention was to find new land and ended up creating a new thought process about the shape of the earth.

You see, every day we have a chance to look at the metaphors of life flowering all around us. Each of these small but telling signs has the possibility of leading us to unfathomable change in our lives. Something as simple as flowers blooming, birds mating, and a plant that died through no fault of your own can hold great divine mysteries. Every day, I look at all of these seemingly useless thoughts and try to make spiritual sense of them. This is my way of making every moment of life count.

When I live in the moment or in the now, I experience the greater privilege of the life that Spirit has afforded me on this earth. I recognize that I am spirit housed in a human body. I live by looking through the windows of my eyes and hearing through the speakers of my ears, and experience the sensual nature of life through the constant sensations of touch and feeling in my heart and in every part of my body—skin, organs, stomach, tongue, lips…

The song “If I Were,” says, “If I were a kiss, I’d seal every promise. Then follow the softest curves that fall from your lips. And I would live on forever, if only a moment. If I were a kiss. If I were.”

I love those lyrics, because they speak of living in the moment. We could simply kiss to move forward into sexuality. Or we could linger on the touch of a loved one’s lips, the shape and the feeling of his lips engaging ours, searching for sensations instead of expectations. From that small difference in experiencing life, our joy is enhanced exponentially.

To live in the present is the greatest gift from God. As some have often said, that is why we call the now, present, because it is a present or gift from God.

And so it is!

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Bo Sebastian is a Hypnotherapist and Life & Health Coach, available for private sessions to QUIT SMOKING, Lose Weight, New Lap-Band Hypnosis for Weight Loss, CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR LIFE! at 615-400-2334 or www.bosebastian.com.

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