Pathwalking 279
Finding the balance between living in the now and setting goals for the future is uniquely challenging.
Pathwalking is about taking control of your destiny, and making choices along the path of life to manifest what you want from it. This is not just living life come-what-may, like so many people do, but instead making decisions, making choices about raising your vibrational energy, and manifesting a life you want to live.
Why bother? Because I don’t know about you, but I want to wake up in the morning excited to face my day. I want to enjoy every moment of my day, not spend long periods of it wishing I were elsewhere, or doing something else, or being someone I am currently not, but could still become. We are here in this reality to learn, to grow, to be the most we can be.
While one can certainly take an aimless journey along a given path, having a goal gives us a reason, gives us a purpose, gives us something to strive for. Maybe it will make us better, maybe it will make us more abundant, but ultimately it’s probably something that will make us happy.
Yet, in order to get from here to there, it’s insanely important to live in the now. While this may seem like a contradiction, it’s actually the key to success.
Let’s go with my goal. I intend to be a best-selling author. Great, I have the goal at the end of my path. Now, here and now, what thoughts, feelings and actions can I take to get to that goal? It is important I do not neglect the present, because this is where I am; yet it’s equally important that I do not get lost in the past, hashing over matters that I wanted to change or do differently.
Time is relative. Einstein taught us that time is illusionary, and that our perception of it is unique to ourselves. I got into this further in a recent Crossing the Bridges. However, current reality is the product of past thought, feeling and action. That’s simply the way it works, we are who we are based on how we thought, what we felt and how we acted before now.
To get to where we desire to be in the future, it’s important to be aware of how we are thinking, feeling and acting in the now. This will allow us to direct our energy, to raise vibrational frequency, and to consciously create our desires. The past is past, simple as that, and only by working with awareness here and now can we affect the outcome for the future we wish to manifest.
BUT, of course, the danger is focusing on that future and neglecting the present. If you lose touch of where you are RIGHT NOW, because you are focusing on the outcome, life continues to live you, and you give control away. Your subconscious can create your reality, but chances are you will not get what you most want. This is why awareness, consciousness of here and now, is the key to manifesting the desired outcome.
Yes, we need to learn lessons from the past, because those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. Yes, we need to visualize the future as if it’s already here, but that is not about daydreaming as much as bringing the idea into your awareness, HERE AND NOW, to make it part of your consciousness. Once we think and feel the desired outcome as though it is already a part of our here and now, a part of our current awareness, then we give it the vibration and energy to consciously create reality as we most desire it.
That’s crazy, right? Except by living in the now, while envisioning the desired outcome in the future ALSO in the now, we empower our potential, and increase the energy needed to consciously create just that. That is, of course, what Einstein was talking about. When we understand, really understand, that time is wholly based on our individual perception of it, we get to choose to take control of it, or be a victim of it.
We frequently blame time for lack, for limitation, for failure. But time is an illusion. Any lack and limitations we put on time are entirely of our own doing. Which means we have the power to choose for ourselves how best to use time.
One major issue in all of this is society. Our society is absolutely obsessed with linear time. Our entire culture frequently gets hyper-focused on matters of linear time, so much so that we have created precision atomic clocks in order to measure its’ passing. We are always looking at time in straight lines, viewing yesterday, examining tomorrow, calling ourselves too old or too young, saying we are running out of time, time marches on, and so on and so forth. Is it any wonder we are so easily distracted from living in the now?
Here’s the real kicker in all of this. I do not know the best way to live in the now. I have been thoroughly indoctrinated into the societal obsession with time, and my work to withdraw from that perception is a challenge. But because I desire to consciously create the reality I most want to have, I am doing anything and everything I can think of to more regularly live in the here and now.
What tools do I have to employ for this process? That is a question I will examine further next week.
Do you live in the past, future or present most frequently?
This is the two-hundred seventy-ninth entry in my series. These weekly posts are ideas and my personal experiences in walking along the path of life. I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way.
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The first year of Pathwalking, including some expanded ideas, is available here.
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