Living in the Moment....

It's a lesson I feel I'm learning over and over again. It seems as though the cycles have grown shorter - maybe the lesson is finally beginning to stick. And the lesson is this:

I am much happier when I am living in the moment.

When I think too much about how my current job isn't what I would like it to be...when I feel upset at how personal relationships have changed...when I feel the weight of the "house" life's hurricanes have blown down around me...when I live in all of these things - the past, the uncertain future - I am not happy.

I have been learning that the best place for me to be is in the ever-present NOW. To be there is to be faced with only what is literally right in front of me. And how exciting that is!

As I increase my awareness of the present moment, the more details I notice. I feel as though my vision has actually become sharper! (Who knows? Maybe it has!) I find the people around me on the train to be incredibly fascinating! The variety of physical features, voices, languages and gestures is astounding.

When living in the moment, everything is sacred. I notice the tiniest details - it truly is like living in a new world! I feel as though I could never be bored.

That is the aspect which helps me the most when I am at work. I experienced a 10-hour day yesterday, but it only felt like half that time. Comfortably seated in the moment, everything I encounter is interesting and carries a sort of newness.

As I write this, I remind myself that it requires vigilance to stay in this place. It is all too easy to gravitate to the past or the proposed futures...I have been honing a discipline of my mind, a sort of balance. Yes, I suppose, a kind of yoga.

And I'm getting stronger in every moment.