How to Be Present When You're Going Through a Difficult Time
We most need the ability to stay present when we are going through a difficult time.Yet
this is precisely when many of us find it thehardest to stay present.
Lots of us who have been on a spiritual path for years are even struggling right now because of the economic climate.
So why do difficult times tend to throw us off our spiritual equilibrium?
What is it about such times that makes it tough to stay centered, calm, present?
The answer is that it's one thing to have a mental concept of what presence is and what it means to be conscious, and quite another to actuallybe a conscious personto actuallybe present in each moment, moment by moment.
Consciousness is a state ofbeing, not a concept about a state of being.
Though to be consciousaffects our thinking, the awareness that comes with consciousness is far more than an improved way of thinking. It's in a whole other league.
In fact thought is often whatblocks our ability to live continuously in the present moment, our consciousness uninterrupted.
Rather than requiring us to learn a different way of thinking, to be enlightened, conscious, and present in eachnow moment is actuallythe most natural thing in the world.
A state of presence is where we began our life. Only as we grew up did we drift away from awareness of the present moment, becoming bogged down in thought and emotional reactivity.
So along comes the gift of a difficult time. A gift? Yes, as long as we don't resist it but simplyallow.
The difficult times that arise in our life are an invitation to rediscover the calm, centered, peaceful person we were originallyandstill are beneath all our thought and emotion.
It's crucial to realize that, contrary to what so many teachers will tell you, to be at peace in the middle of a storm is something we can't talk ourselves into or think ourselves into.
The peace we seek in troubled times is already present in us. This is because our essence isnever anything but peaceful.
Our center is always, always calm.
If we are to know this peaceful state of being in everyday life even when everything seems to be going wrong, we have tolive our way into it. That is, the experience of everything falling apart in our life is precisely what can awaken us to our inherent calmness.
Difficult times provide us with an opportunity to relax intowhat is. Then instead of being driven by anxiety, we find ourselves peacefully flowing with life as it presents itself.
In any trying situation, our task is torelax into it, not fighting it, not struggling against it.
Whereas resistance heightens our anxiety, with acceptance comes peace. Not a peace we have to make, but the peace that is characteristic of our essence.
How this works is the subject of the Namaste Publishing audio book
Lessons in LovingA Journey into the Heart.
How to Be Present When You're Going Through a Difficult Time
By: David Robert Ord
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