Being in the Moment
"Being in the moment" means being fully present and aware of your current experience. To focus on the here and now, without getting caught up in thoughts about the past or worries about the future. It involves actively engaging with your senses and surroundings as they happen, rather than letting your mind wander elsewhere.
The key points about "being in the moment":
Mindfulness: Paying deliberate attention to your thoughts, feelings, and sensations without judgment.
Sensory awareness: Actively notice sights, sounds, smells, tastes, and physical sensations around you.
No distractions: Minimising distractions like your phone or thoughts that pull you away from the now.
Acceptance: Embracing the current moment, even if it's not perfect.
How to “be in the moment":
Meditation: Mindfulness meditation can help train your mind to focus on the present.
Deep breathing: Taking slow, intentional breaths can help bring your attention back to the present.
Savour experiences: Pay full attention to activities like eating a meal, listening to music, or spending time with loved ones.
Observe your surroundings: Notice details in your environment, like the colours you see or the sounds you hear.
By learning this technique, you will start to feel extremely peaceful. People, animals, and energy will react to your feeling of peace. You will retain information more easily.
By dropping your level of mind, you will feel an overwhelming sense of relaxation and peace. None of this is done through words. You will be sending out a frequency of peace, a feeling or emotion of peace. You will find that when you do not allow your thinking to take over, you will find this being in the moment a wonderful place to visit often during the day.
How to find this Being in the Moment.
When you are in this state, you will be “Right Here, Right Now, in the Moment”.
It is a very natural state, but you must stop thinking. When you start to think, your emotions will prevent you from being in a natural state of bliss.
We are always thinking. We think about the past. We think about the future. We think about things that could go wrong, that might go wrong, or what we should have done in the past. We are creatures of habit and think all the time.
By teaching ourselves how to have a mind that is so relaxed, with no thoughts or emotions, you will come into this space. You want no thinking. No thoughts are processing anything in your mind.
So, how to understand this - let’s look at 3 things that we understand:
· Our body – this is in the present. Right with us now.
· Emotions –take us into the past with our thinking. Emotions will take us to different memories and or fears. When we allow our emotions, it will take us out of the present moment.
· Spiritual - An easy way to explain is peace of mind. A deeply meditative state.
Exercises to practise “Being in the Present Moment”
1. Put your full attention on your body. Your body is here, in the present. Keep it still
2. Breathe in deeply, slowly. Match the rhythm of your regular breathing. Keep calm, Keep still
3. When you keep your body still, it will still your mind.
4. Find something to look at – focus on. One spot or thing. Focus on that spot. Eyes and body still. Do not tense your body. You want to remain still but relaxed. Hold for 20 seconds.
5. If you try to think of anything or something drifts into your mind, take note of what part of your body you moved. You need to keep still. It will prevent you from thinking about the shopping or what is on TV tonight.
6. If you didn’t drift off into other thoughts, you would have just remained in the moment!
Keep going – you are building yourself up by being in the present moment!
Now do it again. Focus on that thing or spot. Keep your body still for 30 seconds and now allow yourself to take in any sounds. Remember to keep the body very still.
Release and do this again for another 30 seconds and while you focus on that spot or thing focus on something interacting with your self. The wind on your face, the chair you are sitting on or your clothes on your body. What do they feel like against your skin? Take it all in. Feel it.
Why are we doing this?
To learn how to bring your being present with other senses around you. The sense of sound and feeling. Humans can focus on 3 things at a time. When you connect with angels, loved ones or animals to receive messages, you need to be open to being in the present moment to connect to their energy. To receive their messages. This is why you are learning how to focus.
You may still have the odd thought that comes to your mind. That is ok. Just acknowledge it and let it go. A thought is different to thinking. It is one thing, and it will simply come into your mind, and then it will leave or disappears when you go back to focusing on your body. But if you engage with the thought, you are now thinking, and this will produce the feelings or emotions. You do not want this. You want no feeling. No positive or negative. Simply know that a thought is ok, but do not engage and change it to thinking.
Practise again and allow any thought to leave.
Practise for 30 seconds.
© Keep your body still - focus on the spot
© Listen to the sounds
© Focus on the sensation of touch
© Allow any thoughts to drift away
Do this a minimum of once a day for at least 5 minutes a day for the next 2 weeks. You should be able to go longer each time and come out in a relaxed state of mind. This will bring you peace of mind. Remember it may be surprisingly easier than you may think. Let me know how you went or, if you have any questions, simply reach out here on my web page through my contact me tab.