YOU CANT GET THERE BY RESISTING HERE A simple invitation, friend: Stop focussing on whats not here. The more you focus on whats missing, on what you lack in this moment, on what isnt here today, the more incomplete you feel, the stronger the emptiness in your stomach burns, and the further away you feel from what you desire. Bring your attention back home, back to where it belongs. This moment. The present scene in this great movie of your life. Allow yourself to become fascinated again with the here-and-now. Come out of the story of time and space, lack and absence, and contact this moment afresh. What is present? What does breathing feel like? Is it fast or slow, shallow or deep right now? Can you feel the sensations in the chest expanding and contracting, the belly rising and falling with each in- and out-breath? Can you feel the life here, burning in you? What sensations are dancing all over the body right now? Is there tension anywhere, tightness, achiness, restlessness, exhaustion? In the belly, chest, neck, shoulders, jaw? Can you spend a few moments noticing physical sensations there, breathing into them, giving them space, without labelling or judging their appearance? Not trying to change the moment, but being curious about its dance... Are thoughts very active right now, bustling and partying, or are they quiet, gentle? In this moment, can you allow all thoughts to be here, all images, all memories, all dreams, all sensations, all sounds, all visual impressions? And if not, can you allow your non-allowing of all this, accept your non-acceptance, surrender to your total lack of surrender? Can you honour what is alive in the field of presence right now, even if whats alive is a great big NO to this moment? Can you sink into the field, the unchanging field, the wide open field of life? Can you be this field? Can you be what you are? Can you forgive yourself for exhausting yourself in losing yourself trying to find yourself? Can you even forgive your inability to forgive, love your failure to love? When you focus on whats not here, on whats missing or gone, its easy to lose touch with the field that embraces and endures. Its easy to forget yourself, and feel lost, isolated, stranded in a cold world without possibility. In remembering yourself, possibility opens up again. Connection, gratitude, and the warmth of home are revealed. You cant get THERE by resisting HERE. That seems to be a law. - Jeff Foster
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 21:07:19 +0000
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