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Where ever you go….there you are! Where ever YOU go….THERE you are!

Think about that for a few seconds. You may not realize it, but for some of us, that means “going” up to 25 or even 45 or 50 places a day. Each and every one of those is a separate transaction…and another opportunity to be YOU all over again. So, who will you bring to the party, the office, the grocery store, the kid’s school conference? Who will be laying next to your husband or wife tonight? YOU get to choose. That is what life is about; choosing WHO you are going to BE each and every day.

This is called being in the moment….or BE HERE NOW! It’s a technique that you can learn to utilize and one which you can call upon at any moment. It’s the quality of being able to move beyond past experiences and future predictions to seeing NOW for what it really is…a moment in time. Because, after all, we are human Beings…not human goings or doings. Right?

Imagine having the ability to interact with that difficult employee without conflict. Or, how it would feel to be able to listen to a friend’s sad story ONE MORE TIME, but hearing and responding to it from a completely different place than before.

What’s the value of such a technique, you might ask. Well, provides the ability to start over again and again with a clean slate. When you start to notice yourself falling into the same internal dialogue, zoning out during a business meeting, or mindlessly picking at your mashed potatoes over dinner as contemplate tomorrow’s wardrobe…simply state these words to yourself:

“Be here now”, and gently bring your attention back to where you want it.

FOR EXAMPLE: You’re attending a lecture and your attention strays from the speaker to all the chores you have, to a date, to the fact that you’re hungry. As you say to yourself “Be here now”, you focus back on the lecture and maintain your attention there as long as possible.

When it wanders again, repeat “Be here now”, and gently bring your attention back.

You may notice that your mind often wanders (as often as several times a minute). Each time just say,”Be here now”, and refocus.

Try not to judge the experience or to keep particular thoughts out of your mind because as the old saying goes, “That which you resist, persists”. For example, try this short exercise: Close your eyes for three minutes and try to think about anything except cookies. Remember, don’t think about cookies. When you try not to think about something, it keeps popping back into your mind. “I’m not going to think about cookies. I’m not going to think about cookies.”

So, when you find your thoughts wandering, gently acknowledge and let go of that thought and, with your “Be here now,” return to the present.

Initially, you might do this hundreds of times a week. But, over days (or even weeks) you’ll find that the period of time between your straying thoughts becomes longer and longer. So be patient and keep at it. You can do it!

Every day holds new opportunities. Every dawn provides us with a valuable gift which is to improve and grow ourselves for the better, increase our knowledge of ourselves.

There’s a famous saying that goes: “The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present.” The present offers us the opportunity to change ourselves for the better, and get rid of past patterns or old behavioral rooted deep within that impede us from moving forward towards the knowledge of ourselves. These might be a wrong way of thinking or a wrong way of seeing life, procrastinating, living in fear or in doubts, etc.

We all end up by learning, either willingly or through pain, for nothing happen in our life but for a reason: to teach us a lesson we need to learn. Moreover, we all need to reassess from time to time our own perspective from life. We need to re-evaluate our thoughts, our emotions and behaviors. For life is a school of the self where we need to understand ourselves better, elevate ourselves to a higher vibration.

If you tend to be surrounded by people who often treat you unfairly then at one time of your lifetime, you tended to treat people unfairly as well. For every cause there is a result. Our present is the result of our past and will be the cause of our future. That’s the funny wheel of karma. Awakening to your previous life enlighten you on many issues about your present, the people that are in your current life including your family, friends and acquaintances.

On the other hand, the present is a blessing, for no matter how much we might have messed up in our previous life, the present is an opportunity to fix it.

Moreover, the present time gives us the opportunity to heal our wounds that might reside within; these might be in the forum of ancient trauma that might have arisen either from this life or from a previous one.

Last but not least, the present teaches us how to love ourselves and embrace all the difficulties within.

The bottom line is that when we delve within and find more about ourselves and our relationships, we boost the spiritual life that is alive within each one of us.