The importance of the moment
Posted by Goody on 06/8/08 in Uncategorized
The moment is where we exist and where we create from.
What is a
moment? How do we define such a place
that we exist in momentarily and yet cannot really say that it is exists until
it has happened. We cannot pin point it
but yet we exist in it continuously.
This now moment is the existence that is happening, it continues on in a
line until we live out a sequence of moments that we then see and label as the
past. The moments that are to come then
are defined as the future.
We live our
daily lives never really aware of how important the moment we are living in is
to us, accepting it at face value. It
could be seen to be taken for granted that we just live, without ever venturing
into understanding how important such moments of now are to us.
It does not
take much thinking to rationalize how real the moment feels to us, also to
understand that the main existence that we live in is defined in the now moment
frame. Everything we do or proceed to do
becomes known eventually in the now moment and will be defined and utilized within
this frame of existence that has no logical understanding in real time.
To try and
understand such a place it is best to view it through daily life and the
activities that we do. Imagine that you
are at work and you are proceeding to do a job that you do not really find that
interesting. Your mind starts thinking
about the task at hand and tries to determine how much work you still have to
do in the future. That is hard for the
mind to take in, and if it is a lot of work to do you start to feel heavy and
overtaxed in the body. This heaviness is
the pressure from thinking about how much work is still to be done. Your mind is then focusing on the future in
the now moment.
Imagine
then that you start to do the task even though you feel annoyed at it and
tired. Then you make mistakes over and
over. Now your mind is focusing on the
future of how much work has to be done, but it is also pressured by the past of
what mistakes you have made already. It
makes the task seem even more tiresome and overwhelming.
If you were
to however take your mind from the future and the past and place it in the now
moment, how would the task then be seen?
You would not look at how much work there is still to do, and how many
mistakes you have made. Instead you would
have all your focus on the now and concentrating on the task that is at
hand. It is amazing then how fast the
task actually then gets done. When you
are at full concentration on what you are doing in the moment, not only is your
mind busy on something that is important to finish, but it is also not being
constantly distracted by past and future.
One thing
that is forgotten in all of this is that past and future are created in our
mind. They are distractions away from
what we are meant to be doing and tend to cause mishaps in the moment because
of the fact that we are not focusing on what we are doing. The mind can only focus on one direct thing
at a time. Many people think that they
can do more things at once. However
logically this is not totally true. The
body, yes, can move a number of parts in ordered physical sequence. The mind then can make the body continue this
over and over in a robotic nature.
However if you mind were to wander too far away from the moment you will
see how many mistakes you will make from not totally concentrating on the task
at hand.
It is easy
to be distracted by memories of the past and dreams of the future. The mind likes to wander in and out of
created scenarios that lead it away from the living and existing in the
physical moment. What is past and future
anyway for it to be so important to continually focus on?
Past is the
ordered sequence of events that you like to remember, which is choice based
depending on what you wish to determine as important to revisit in your mind. Future is the moments that we would like to
live out and the possible sequences that we wish to proceed to. The most important however is the now moment. That is where all is lived out and
understood. Without the now moment there
is no past or future, and without many now moments there is no time or meaning
to the lives that we live.
If you have
to live an experience out anyway, why live in past and future, why not
experience life in the moment. Now is
where it starts, it is what will define you and make you. The now moment is the most important place to
be , it is where you truly exist.
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