Today is the last day on the beach with my granddaughter and daughter. I intend to fill it to full. As I write these words, it occurs to me, isn’t every day our last day on the beach? What if we treated it as if it were? Would we then live our lives to full?
Time is a funny concept. We tend to divide it into three stages – past, present, and future – but isn’t all that really exists the present? Even when we think about something that happened in the past, we bring it to the present to examine it.
Obviously the goal is to be fully present in the given moment, but what a challenge that is. How can we be present all of our moments? This week I read an exercise in Arnold M. Patent’s You Can Have It All that perhaps can help us to experience our moments instead of allowing our thinking minds to evaluate them:
“When in your home, select a dominant feature of each room to focus your senses on whenever you enter the room. For example, focus on the odors when you go into your kitchen and on colors when you are in your living room. When you first awake, pay attention to the sounds you hear. While you are eating, focus on the texture or taste of each food you ingest. Make up other exercises that keep your attention focused on something in your immediate environment, and vary the exercises to maintain your interest. When you lose interest, your thinking mind becomes free to intervene, and it will invariably hinder the stimuli from reaching the PRM (‘Perfect Response Mechanism’).”
“The beauty of these exercises is that the focus on one aspect of the immediate environment enhances the ability of the PRM to receive all other stimuli from that environment.”
“The perfect response or sequence of responses is then transmitted to you intuitively.”
“Our Perfect Response Mechanism is directly connected to Infinite Intelligence.”
“If we had no preconceived ideas and beliefs as to how the world worked and, instead, just allowed the universe to guide us, we would continually experience the beauty of life.”
What if just for today we give the exercise a try? Right now I feel the quiet tranquility of the condo bedroom while I write this message to you and to me. There is a stillness in the air as my full-of-life little granddaughter lies sleeping in the next room.
Where are you? What is there to love and appreciate in your space at this very moment?
Can we do it? Can we keep our focus in the given moment, experience the beauty of life, and fill our lives to full today?
