Living in the Now

The world we experience is inside us.

Yes, there is a big wide world “Out there” which we inhabit and share with others. It’s not an illusion, but it’s not where we, our consciousness, lives.

What you and I experience right now and remember is an internal representation of that external world, an image or reflection based on our own selves.

This weird realisation means that it is possible to live outside the present - either in the remembered past or in an imagined future.

I first realised this when someone asked me how I was feeling and didn’t let me tell some story about my life in general, last week or earlier that day but insisted I talk about right now. I realised, for all my “problems” I could list, I actually felt just fine in that particular moment and could admit it.

If I had been allowed to tell my remembered or anticipated woes I would have simply relived them by dragging them into my consciousness from out of nothingness.

How do you feel in this exact moment?

What sensations are active in your body?

What emotions are there?

What is your system trying to tell you right now?

Are you alive in the Now?

There is only ever now.

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