The most important thing you can do is be present. Focus on it, love it, be it. It is the message you came to learn and give. When you are in the moment you are being your most natural self. You are being a renaissance man. Being present is accepting the present. It is accepting what is. It is surrendering to being who you truly are, which is your authentic self; an aspect of All That Is.
You have gone off in your ego and gotten lost in your fear, but you are still being you. You can never not be you. You can never get away from yourself. The question is, who do you want to be? Do you want to believe you are cut off and alone with no one to help you but yourself, or do you want to believe you create your own reality and choose what you experience? You can be awake and understand what is happening and how things really are, or you can be asleep and a victim to circumstance. You can choose love or fear; to be a victim or empowered. It is up to you. It is your world. It is your reality. It is created by your choice.
There is no line that divides your spiritual self and physical self except for the one that you make up. The line that seems to divide you is made by what you focus on. You create a more defined physical line by having a more defined physical focus. The physical reality you are experiencing is created by your concentrated focus. It is true that your mind and body are focusing mechanisms but they are controlled by you, and it is you that chooses what to look at and how long and intensely you focus on it. It is you who is doing the focusing. You are doing the choosing. No one else but you is making you focus on anything and what you focus on is what you experience.
If you want to loosen up the intense grip this physical world has on you, loosen up your focus on the physical world. To be present and in the moment means that you have taken a step back across the solidified physical line and are awake to how things are happening, and are looking at things from a different less dense perspective.
Your physical mind and body or ego is just a focusing mechanism. It was just meant to be like a pair a glasses for you to look through, so you could have a physical experience. It was never supposed to do the looking, that is your job. Your ego is not much more than small speck of all the you are. It is just a scared little piece of you. It is not good at making decisions because it was not designed to do it. The reason it is so frightened is that it feels so small and has to carry such a huge weight. It has an extremely limited perspective. It is scared and lost, and it knows it, and it is doing everything it can to survive. Who can blame it? You throw a scared animal into a corner and it will do everything it can to survive at all costs in the best way it knows how.
The ego does not know who it is. It does not know it is just a perspective. It does not know how to be present. It does not know it has everything it needs when it needs it. The reason you don’t think you have what ever you need is because you don’t believe you are an aspect of All That Is. You don’t believe you can become any other aspect just by taking a different perspective. You don’t believe you are the One being an aspect of itself.
When you know that you are an aspect of All That Is, then you know who you are, you know you can take any perspective in order to have any experience you choose. You know that you are all perspectives and that you are just choosing this particular one at this particular time, but that does not mean that you are not all the other perspectives as well at the same time. You are just choosing to focus on this one perspective. You know that you are, and can be, any aspect of All That Is that you choose, because the you that is doing the choosing is actually All That Is. You are All That Is!
Your present perspective is that you are so separated, asleep and shut down that you cannot possibly believe this. You have got yourself believing that you are this little, picked on, beat up ego, that at any moment is going to get blown away into nothingness. It is quite a perspective. It is absolutely intriguing. No wonder you did it. It is a fascinating experiment to be knocked out cold in the utter blackness that you are in, and then watch the breath of light, love and life fill your veins and bring you back to life and the knowledge of who you are. This is your world. This is what you are creating. This is your drama. It is an amazing show you are putting on.
It is quite a game you have made up for yourself. How is that working for you? Are you enjoying it? Do you like being in so much pain that you have to numb yourself with the addictions of incessant thinking, activity, TV, food, sex, alcohol, drugs and what ever else takes you away from be present and in the moment? For the most part, your co-stars are acting out their parts perfectly. Few are immune to this. It is the general physical condition, but it doesn’t have to be. You can change it. You can choose to take back your strength. You can choose to be whole and empowered. You do not have to spend your time covering up your pain any longer. You can be happy by just choosing to be happy.
While you are focused in physical reality through the ego, it makes sense to enjoy the adventure that you have set up for yourself. Yes, it is true that you have limits, but you choose them on purpose. You cannot have an experience without limits. Your ego is a limiting mechanism. You cannot have this experience without the ego. It is not a bad thing. It is necessary, but the point is, that you do not need to be soooo limited. You do not need to give your ego so much responsibility. It does not even know how to handle it. It was not designed to handle it. It has built itself up thinking it has to protect you, but the fear has gotten way out of hand and it is feeding itself more and more thoughts of fear.
Let go of your dense, dark, fear based perspective and back up a few steps towards the light. Take a new perspective. Lighten you load. Be light, happy, carefree and have fun like a child. Children love to play. It does not matter so much what they play, they just love playing. So make life a game that you love to play that does not matter so much. Quit hanging onto things so tightly and being so scared that you are going to loose everything. Let go of the perspective that you have to have things to be you. Focus on your state of being, rather than on getting and having.
Stop and think about this, the reason you want to get something is so that you can be a certain way, but what you are forgetting is that you can be that way without getting anything, because you already have everything. All you have to do is choose to be it; the getting, having, and doing is all secondary. Being is Primary.
You do not need to stop doing, getting and having. You just need to take a different perspective while you are doing, getting and having. Take the perspective that you are happy first and then do what you do. Know that you already have everything and then get what you want, and have the experience you prefer. Take this perspective because you know that happiness and wealth come from a state of being and not from doing and having things. Change the way you are looking at it and it will change your world.
Once you start living your life from the perspective that you already have everything you need by just choosing to be it, your motivation for getting and having will be entirely different. You will not do things or get things to cover up the fear that you are alone, poor, afraid and insecure. You are already happy and fulfilled, so you do what you do and get what you get for fun, pleasure and your enjoyment. You do what you enjoy doing and you do it out of the sheer joy of doing it.
It is a fun game you are playing and it does not matter if it was all gone tomorrow. If you woke up and everything had changed, you would just get excited and jump into the new adventure and say, “how could it get any better than this,” and “what else is possible.” The key point to remember is that it is not about the physical things you can get, or who you are with or what you do; it is about who you are, it is about your state of being, it is about the perspective you take. You create it all just by believing it is so.
