02/12/2021
HOW TO LIVE THE PRESENT MOMENT?
Trust yourself to live in the moment!
Trust yourself!
There is a feeling of instability around you that makes you doubt the future.
You find yourself again locked in your home and as if cut off from your daily habits which punctuated your life. Here you are again confined with your emotions of incomprehension, disappointment, uncertainty ...
You feel both a considerable emptiness and the feeling of abandonment, betrayal as if you had been forgotten by the side of the road and life had gone on without you. You find yourself on your own to overcome the challenges she has once again decided to place you in.
This feeling of exclusion from the hustle and bustle of life leads you to a strange feeling of unease, even unease.
Suddenly, it's as if you are dizzy on the edge of a huge abyss that tilts you into an unusual time that appears empty and disconnected to you. The passing hours seem difficult to fill because every minute has an intensity that resonates. You hold in your hand the time that suddenly belongs to you. And that bothers you because you feel like you are powerless to control all those seconds, to dress them with your presence and your intentions ...
Become aware of the action to take so as not to feel anxious by this slowdown and this change of priority is necessary in order not to let yourself go to the depressed: should you let yourself be carried away by what is happening or swim in against the current?
Your choice is quickly made because you understand that there is no room for resistance so as not to further complicate the situation for yourself. You understand that it is up to you to react so as not to fuel the lack of what escapes you, of what is slipping through your fingers.
You stop worrying about it and you agree to let go ...
You can see the traces left by all these changes that have governed your life for several months in the face of this pandemic. You take stock of the emotional impact of this unprecedented period.
The first time, you were shocked and taken aback by the idea that you were no longer free to move around. So you organized yourself, you braved your fears, you agreed to change your routine, you invited little novelties to adapt to what was happening to you.
For this second time, the surprise is considerable, you accuse the blow and you float between anger and discouragement. But then again, you know you have to accept and do your best ...
"When the hectic pace stops, what's left of me that's full, solid, and consistent? "
Then your gaze stops looking outside for compensations in the surrounding chaos and in your mental turmoil. You turn your attention to your interiority to ask yourself questions essential to your balance:
What is freedom for me in the end: time devoted to enduring what is happening to me or time to reclaim what drives me, what really carries me, what looks like me, what touches me?
What are my resources to deal with this situation without losing ground?
What do I need to stay grounded in my life?
How can I turn my shortcomings into challenges by implementing my strategies?
How can I overcome my fear with simple and effective actions?
The fact of describing your feelings, gives you a passage way towards a reappropriation of your perspectives. Even if you are confined, you are on the move through your way of experiencing what is happening ...
Malleability of the moment
When we manage to name what paralyzes us in a situation, we find the key not to suffer too much and especially not to suffer it. We make the moment malleable. We make it not a prison but a space to create. We give color to the gray canvas of our life by letting go of our frustrations to find other angles of approach. We set ourselves new goals that are more in line with the real world to be experienced. We stop complaining and victimizing ourselves and we decide to act and take control ...
Isn't that the message that we can read there very little in these times of uncertainty that keep repeating itself:
How to create yourself every second?
How to readjust so as not to lose footing?
How do you adapt over and over again?
How to live with what is there?
We are adaptive beings, so it is by practicing always living the present moment as it comes that we become the masters of our time. By expanding the seconds by paying attention to what makes us feel good, we reinvent our living space, we "redecorate" it with other moods, other tastes, other emotions. We bring new shades to it and it is in our inner palette, at the heart of our unwavering motivation, that we find new pigments to vary the shades of our life. We stop blaming ourselves and accept what we cannot change. It's not being defeatist to let go when things get complicated; it's a matter of mental health.
Life is not lived in the relentlessness of our will, but in the perseverance of our intentions.
If we let go when it hurts us, we release our mind to welcome the flow of life differently in our anchoring to our solidity, in our openness to novelty.
Plenitude is knowing how to live the moment in the wonder and contemplation of the life that flows through each simple moment of life: our awakening, a dance, a coffee, a few words exchanged, a reading, a smile on the canvas, stars, a clear sky ...
When I look at the world everything frightens me, I barricade myself in my thoughts that take me away from myself
I stop the course of my ideal by rebelling against the present time which assassinates my dreams
I lock myself in a cage of oppression and disillusion to moan over what sucks me into nothingness
When I relax, my body becomes my base of presence which makes life the expression of my fullness.
Am I empty or am I full of myself?
Do not be afraid, trust yourself to be successful in triumphing over this situation. The resources are within you… Do not doubt!
