Monthly Archives: August 2017

The case for living in the Now (#1)

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There is a place in life for planning.  I question whether it is the “absolute necessity ” we are told it is, but I still make plans.

One of the advantages of planning is that it can be like a tuning mechanism, a tuning fork – harmonizing future and the time-based present in enjoyable, uplifting ways.

One of the disadvantages is that it can confine.  Planning – and sticking to a plan – can be an attempt to control.  Planning, by definition, relies on time and space.  These bandwidths can be limiting.  Also, it lives, perhaps, where life is not.

Many a wise teacher has said that life only happens in the Now.  The only reality is the present moment which exists beyond (or behind) mind constructs, from which all planning springs.

What possibilities might we see, what energy might we access if we put down our calendars and dropped into the Now?  Just for now.

Finding the Infinite Bank (#1)

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Most techniques and philosophies about creating money and abundance don’t go far enough. Creating vision boards and thinking positively about desired things are helpful, but these tools can be incomplete.

It is easy to build up inner charge (and tension) around the so-called positive. If there is any sense of avoiding the negative or clutching the positive – a state seen as desirable by many schools of thought – there is no inner freedom. There is still tension and a sense of limitation.

I have only ever found inner freedom to be the most “abundant” state. It releases the attachment to what we decide is “abundance” (if you can’t abide not having it, how are you free?) which opens up tremendous energy.

It calls forth the part of us that is beyond all concepts, attachments, memory and outcomes, including numbers in our bank account. It doesn’t discount or deflect any outcome – we tend to think it does – it just doesn’t grab.

That aspect of Being is already free. Be “that.”