Take out the Trash…

What thoughts and feeling fill you up every day? How full is your trash bin? That is…how full is your head with crap that you don’t need right now?

How about this question…where are you living right now, right this moment? Are you here? Or maybe in the past…or how about the future? Or are you lost somewhere else completely?

And if you’re not right here, right now, what good are you doing yourself?

We don’t have any other time than right now. All we will EVER have is this one moment in which to decide and act. And yet, we persist in living our precious time and moments reliving the past and dreaming of the future. WHAT AN ABSOLUTE WASTE!

Ah, but I can hear you muttering already. We NEED to remember the past and not repeat it. What about those that hurt you? Are you saying we should forget that? And what about our dreams?! You just talked about how important they are for us! WTF! :-)

Firstly…settled down! We are talking about different things here. Trust me.

Right here, right now
There is no other place I want to be – Jesus Jones “Right Here, Right Now”

You’re right, actually. We CAN’T forget the past. However, we also CAN’T live in it and let it dominate our lives or drag us to a standstill where we can’t even move. The same goes for any and all hurts you have suffered. And even, the happy times and pleasures you’ve had too. Living in the past does NOTHING but keep us from being present in our lives.

So what about dreams and hopes and all that jazz? Sure, it’s great to have dreams and hopes and they are VERY important to every person’s life. But again…YOU CAN’T LIVE THERE! Lots of people want to live there. People LOVE to talk only about their dreams and how “Some day…” Living in the future does NOTHING but keep us from being present in our lives.

Sound familiar? :-)

Take out the Trash, Dan. The trash is anything that is keeping you from the only thing that matters. This moment. Here. Now. – Soc. “Peaceful Warrior”

We are a race that can live in only one place. Right now. No matter how bad you want…you CANNOT affect the past in any way. Nor can you really effect the future…it’s not happened yet. The only thing you CAN affect is now and what you do with the moment.

It IS going to be a challenge to live simply in the moment. We are wired and conditioned by the world to live anywhere BUT this moment. We have every distraction that you can think of and all the advice you can choke a horse with that encourages us to not be present in our lives.

So let it all go…just for this moment. Let go the fear, the anger, the hate, the worry, the tension, the dreams, the hopes, the past, the hurts, the love, the wants, the needs, and anything else that might be cluttering up your mind and excluding you from THIS moment. See what happens when there is nothing but you. Feel everything in the world around you. LIFE is happening in this moment. Look around and find it, in all its various forms.

Can you see a little bit of what you’ve been missing? Now watch what happens, just sit here for a while with me. You’re filling up again, aren’t you? It took such a great amount of work to get you empty for just that one single brief moment, that as soon as you stop, you’re almost back to full immediately. But what if you could LIVE every second of every day like that? Purely in the moment that is given you. Every second would become miraculous.

There are no ordinary moments. – Dan Millman “Peaceful Warrior”

When you live in the moment, you can find yourself. You will find that you live a momentous life. :-) You can be free of the dragging weight of the chains of the past, be able to look towards the future and make the most out of every moment you have. Moments are powerful .Moments change lives. Think about it…it only takes a moment for the lives of a family to be torn apart by a drunken driver. It only takes a moment to give freely and completely the love you have inside to another. Smiles make moments, as do tears. It all comes down to choices…so make the most of the choices you have…right now, in this YOUR moment.

Soc: Where are you?
Dan: Here.
Soc: What time is it?
Dan: Now.
Soc: What are you?
Dan: This moment.