10:00 AM
One thing at the time...Total focus on the moment... This is my focus for the rest of this journey, and the rest of my life... It is the most difficult thing to do, no doubt about it. Just to keep our full attention to whatever we are doing, to maintain that single focus, is almost impossible. No matter how hard you try, after a few moments the thoughts start pouring in, and you loose it.... Bring yourself back, focus again... Then loose it again... It never ends, but thats the beauty of it, you keep trying, over and over again, 10 000 times. After a while, you will notice that you can hold your attention a little longer than before, you can feel the pause in your thinking. At first, the pause is only a few seconds long, but with dedicated practice it gets longer and longer. You feel calm and grounded in those few seconds, your breath is clear, you hear everything better, you smell everything better... By paying close attention, you create space within yourself, your space, a space where the mind is not allowed. In this space, even though it is only a few seconds long, you get to be you. You get a short glimpse of your true self, a short glimpse of the calm ocean within you. In this space you finally become alive...
Life is so easy if you are able to maintain your focus on the present. Waking up early is easy, all you have to do is focus on you body, your feet out of the bed, on the floor, walking to the bathroom, running water, toothbrush, putting clothes on... Moment after moment... There is no room for the mind. If you are focused like this, your mind has nowhere to enter. The usual morning thought, " I am so tired and sleepy", has nowhere to enter. It is not in your head, so you get up with ease, enjoying the early hour... All our negative emotions cannot be present if we are focused. There is no room for them, all they can do is bounce off the wall of presence within ourselves...
2:00 PM
" You are never upset because of the reason you think you are..."
A Course In Miracles
When you are angry or upset because of some event, some person, or situation, the real reason for it is not the event, the person, or the situation... The real reason is your loss of real perspective, your lack of space within yourself. Not having this space, the pause in our thinking, we are unable to feel our inner self, to see things clearly, to see things without the help of our Ego. When you are aware of yourself, you are also aware of the fact that everything will pass... If you are able to create that pause and space in your thinking, you will look at things differently. You will become the observer of your own thoughts and emotions. Not the victim of your mind, not in control of it, but observing it. Calmly breathing, smiling and observing... Feeling that calm ocean within yourself, you will be able to face any situation, or person, with an inner smile, no matter how bad it is... Deep down you know, the same situation, the same person that upsets you, is a tool for you to grow, to evolve... You will actually embrace them and be thankful for their presence, regardless of how much they hurt you...
However, this can only be done if you are present, if you are living in that space... This type of reaction, or non-reaction, can only happen from the bottom of our inner ocean... It will never happen on the surface, only on the bottom... Find your space, find your inner ocean... Live...
11:00 PM
Excellent class...
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