Restore Your Energy by Becoming Present - The Little Prince Series
Daily Insight into Consciousness fromThe Little Prince
As I look back, I ask myself how I shifted fromtrying to be a conscious person who is present in each moment of my day to actuallybeing present.
For instance on Twitter the other day someone talked about when they "manage to stay present." I remarked that to try to manage to stay present sounds like work. And as I look back at my own journey, it used to be work. It took a lot of effort to try tomanage my state of mind.
So I stopped managing and relaxed.
No longer manipulating my mind, trying to control my thoughts and emotions, but instead just observing, I found that I wasalready present.
It was just a question of slipping into myborn state, my naturalbeing.
After drawing a sick sheep, then a ram, the crashed pilot offers up another effort to The Little Prince. This sheep proves to be too old. The Prince doesn't want some worn-out sheep but a young, active sheep that will live a long life.
Consciousness has an amazing way of rejuvenating us. That's because to be conscious iseasy, since it's our natural state, whereas to keep up the unconsciousness we learned while growing up requires lots and lots of energy.
Most of us think of consciousness as being a difficult state to achieve, whereas it's actually the other way around! Unconsciousness is a painful state and requires an immense amount of energy to maintain.
When I began to be present in my life, my fretfulness, worry, and anxiousness started to drop away.
I didn'tdo anything that required work to get such emotions to go away. I just observed myself, quietly noticing how angst would arise and take me over. As I observed, it began to happen less and less, until now it happens hardly everand if it does, it's only fleeting.
Much of the tiredness we experience is emotional and mental. We are exhausted from what we are suppressing of our true being. As our authentic self increasingly becomes our daily reality, we find we no longer tell ourselves such things as, "Oh, I'm so tired!" or, "This wears me out."
If we are truly tired because we have put out a lot of physical or mental energy, we don't turn this into painful drama. We don't carry it with us like a huge weight on our shoulders.
Instead we have the good sense to bepresent with our tiredness and thus do what's required such as getting some exercise, relaxing with a nice meal, or taking a nap.
We let go of all sense ofdrivenness and go with the flow of what ourbeing is asking of us.
When I stopped fretting over the past or dwelling on the future, and simply allowed myself to be in the only place we ever can be, which is right here at this moment, my whole life began to feel like a breeze. As Jesus promised, it becameeasy, characterized by alightness. He called it a state of "rest," and suggested we learn from him how to be present in the same restful way.
I cannot emphasize enough that all my efforting got me nowhere in the end. My ego self became present briefly at times, but it never lasted because presence can't come from the ego, the false self.
Our natural state is a youthful vigor, an excitement about life, a sense of adventure, a feeling of joy. This alive way of being begins to bubble up quite naturally and spontaneously once we start noticing when we are shifting into efforting and choose not to go there.
*Note: My Namaste Publishing bookYour Forgotten Self goes more deeply into how our true nature is always present and how consciousness is our most natural and relaxed state.
Restore Your Energy by Becoming Present - The Little Prince Series
By: David Robert Ord
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