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Hi everyone! Thanks for checking out my pod. I am working on developing a teaching method to help people free themselves of past or future concerns so that they are completely free to live life innocently in the moment. You know that little voice that tells you that either it will be just like last time or you should wait for a better time? There is no other time, only now! So get busy living, or stay asleep. Sound good? Stay tuned…

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YAY for YOU!

OHHHHHYES ! We So need people to be present! So many souls that need to time travel and become N-O-W. It's time to stop blaming things on the past, to be where we are now, and make our future our creation!

Weee… Sign Sweeney up!

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Ok…so the idea was to create an inspiration story at what appeared to be a dark time- you know, a story that everyone can add onto in spontenaety…but I think the idea was lost…..

Alas…..

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…he begins to take his first step off the cliff.  Just as he shifts his weight over the edge, he closes his eyes and screams.  After a moment of shear terror and regret, he opens his eyes to see he is floating in midair!  And in front of him is…

I thought I'd continue this thought, looked kind of fun :) 

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Very nice topic, Lux!

I too believe in 'The Power of Now'. 

Mc.

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NOW & NEW are key for me!  I have a lot more to learn about teaching methods for opening the HERE/NOW gate to unlimited potential and infinite possibilities.  BEing Living (indead of 'believing') is key to many keys for me.  What a wonderful, simple pod sprout this is!

Blessings In FUN,
~ Elizabeth

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It has come to my attention that I need to learn how to live in the now and make the most out of the moment.  I think when it comes to planning for my future I'm all set.  I do the right things as far as planning for retirement, not that I am anywhere near that, but it is important.  I'm planning for my future by working on a graduate degree while working full time.  I just bought a house so I had room for the clan of animals I wanted to have.  And with finals right around the corner I'm busier than time allows.  But, I know I'll burn out if I don't make time for living in the now.  That's why I'm here!

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I'm new here and so glad I found this pod!!! I think people get so  bogged down with what they HAVE to do, that they don't let themselves BE in the moment. I on the other hand tend to let myself get totally carried away when I'm in the moment. Plans be damned!!! We MUST all learn to stop and just BE! My life has been much more joyful since I started “smelling the roses” when the moment was right.

Love & Kisses
Jessica

regarding being present

simply being present requires no effort at all

because there is nowhere else it is possible to be

only the mind can make any effort to be what it imagines is present

and as soon as it starts up, you are no longer present - you are making effort to be present

so stop all effort, all thinking about HOW to do it and you will see that you already are

cameron 

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Being present…. hmm…. I suppose we can't help but to be present, as much as we can actually be anything.  But are we self-aware; that's the question.  Is our attention here within the closest thing human experience can get to reality, the present moment, or are we in fantasy world, aka the future or past?  Are we thinking of something that isn't here and now? 

The past and future drain energy away and the present fills us up. So if we wish to live an energized life, it certainly pays to spend as much time as possible with our attention focused in the present.  How do we do that?

For me it's about quieting my conceptual mind (which is why I created a pod called Lose Your Mind) and living a simple enough life that I don't need to use time oriented thought that much.

For losing my mind, I employ a number of methods I've learned from traditions specifically aimed at helping people do that, such as Dzogchen meditation, A Course in Miracles exercises, and Byron Katie's “The Work” questioning methods.  I also do a form of dance called ecstatic dance which involves using movement to transcend the idea of a separate body. Basically I work at not believing any of my thoughts, particularly the thought that I exist as a separate being with it's own body and it's own mind. There isn't really my mind, but rather the Mind, and when I lose my mind really I'm just losing my belief in the lie that says I have a mind to begin with. So I do practices that help me de-program myself from societal and karmic conditioning that cause me to believe I do exist and that my thoughts about you are real too.

As for getting free of time, well that one takes real commitment, especially for someone like me who loves comfort. I once had a prophetic dream in which I was told point blank “it is your comfort that has chained you.”  The more we maximize our material comforts in life the more we are chained to obligations for maintaining those comforts, and usually that pulls us into the world of material productivity for a considerable percentage of each week.

When I live simple I don't have to work as many hours and the work I do can be more of the mindless variety, which then frees up my energy for engaging in on-going meditation throughout each day, such as witnessing my present moment experience as a continual stream of present moments, each savored while it lives then released as another rises. When I need more money I have to take jobs that require a lot of creative engagement with the details of this illusion. I have to be extremely concerned with cause and effect and trying to get things to come out a certain way, reaching for future success on behalf of the organization or goal I serve.

Yes, I know. Zaadz is about changing the world, to many even saving the world, and here I am saying “forget about succeeding at any meaningful goals.” Certainly, this mind losing business isn't for everyone. But it is for me. It is my take on being present.

If you develop an amazing level of skill at being effortlessly present, then you won't have to do what I'm describing. Then you will be able to be emersed in the present moment even while reflecting on past experience and planning for future success.  But for most of us, we don't have that level of skill. What we have is a habit of getting lost in the past and future and identifying with the contents of our minds so that we miss the experience of most of our life. We miss the experience of the present moment and since we only live in the present moment, we miss our lives!  So until you can recondition yourself, I think the best thing to do is avoid the situations that force you to deepen your current conditioning. Make it easier on yourself while you're learning and later when you're strong and skilled you can do whatever you want.

I suspect few of you are going to agree with this advice, or even if you agree be willing to set aside your striving long enough to take it. You may already feel the press of things undone and a responsibility that simply can't wait for you to ________ (fill in the blank).  God bless you. May you find quick success and more importantly may you find quick fulfillment. Sometimes the easiest way to transcend the desire to achieve something is simply to go ahead and achieve it so that you can become disillusioned about it. So go ahead and save some portion of the world, then come back and sit with yourself in silence. Whenever the day comes, I promise you, there you will be. There is no hurry to stop your hurrying. You are always there to be found, within the present moment.

Being Present

I find the more present I am , the more inspired I am, and the greater contribution I make to the awareness and alignment with the peaceful state.  Being present allows inspiration and action to flow through me while still being aware of being at peace and one with all things.

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I am so glad that this pod is here. It 's awesome to hear that there are others who are awakening to this thought of living in the moment.

For me to be at this moment in my life has been an ongoing journey of several years. In all that I have studied and practiced in, it has brought me to this one moment.

In my travels of my mind I have found that I have had to deal with my past and all of the behaviors that have made me who I am. This has not always been easy. In taking the time to become aware of these behaviors, it has made me stop to think about who I want to become and how I want to live my life. What I have found is once I was able to work through those things in my life that were often painful memories and allow them to just move through me, I was able to let them go. In doing so, my mind is becoming more and more quiet. As new situations arise, if I allow myself to experience the moment, no matter how unpleasant it may seem, and let it past through me, let it run its course, my mind will become quiet again. It has allowed me to be more present in my everyday walk. It has allowed me to stay more connected to my Creator.

 The world in which I live in looks a lot different to me these days. Someone spoke earlier of not making a difference in the world by working on ourselves. I just think that it starts within and how each of us chooses to live our lives and stay in the moment will only make a diifference to all that we touch on a daily basis.

 May we all find the courage and the strength to live in the moment and let the past and future be of its own.

Namaste'

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Hi everyone!

I have a friend who always says, too many people either live in the dead past or the imagined future! Just today I caught myself living in the imagined future: I was swimming laps in the  gym indoor pool, thinking, “did I lock my new car or didn't I? There have been a few problems in the parking lot, did I lock my car?”  Thinking I might find a problem when I got back to my car, I finally realized what I was doing, and put light around the car and jumped back into the present moment and enjoyed my swim!

Of course when I got back to my car, nothing happened, except my needless worrying!

In peace.

Binah 

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Where do you suppose that obnoxious little voice comes from? From whence to all the obnoxious voices come? Do you think they come from words meaning two things? Take “Pride” for example, people will tell you that “Pride goeth before a fall” and “be not puffed up with Pride,” on the other hand, you must have “Pride” in yourself, in your work, in your whatever. Why are we afraid to say 'Yes?'
Fascinated ~
Dryad