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Your body doesn’t lie. It carries with it every sling and arrow, every insult and injury, every time it was ignored and discounted. It is these traumas that arise when we begin to live in the present, in the here and now.
Your mind will deceive you or at least it will try. It
will send you into the past which it has sanitized and made pleasant so you may
stay ignorant of your injuries. Your mind will send you into the future where
all the injuries and insults never occur.
The decision to live in the present is a decision to
heal. A decision to force the mid to come to terms with the body and all it
carries along. In the present, the past is just that…past. In the present the
future holds no interest for there is nothing there yet.
In the present we cannot deny our shadow, we cannot
ignore our imperfections and shortcomings; we can lie to ourselves no longer.
Living in a world of projection (for the future), denying, and rationalizing
(from the past) allows us to stay safe and comfortable. But none of this is the
truth.
To tell yourself the truth, to face the facts of your
experience requires you to be present in this moment, the here and now. This is
the most difficult of tasks.
Be here now. Simple, not easy.
John Mariotti
www.sundaystories.blogspot.com
775-338-2412
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