Finding Yourself in Time
Wow, It’s been a long time since I added to this blog. I’ve been checking over the visitors to my site and there have been more than I expected! The checkup has inspired me to update the blog to reflect upon my current state of spiritual awareness.
It’s been a long time in the making, but I have made the choice to become aware of myself. I have been observing my energy, emotions, values and reactions to each better day that I live through. It’s become very clear to me that finding yourself in time is a very good ‘anchor’ for inspired living.
What do I mean by ‘finding yourself in time’? The answer is very simple, to find yourself amongst the mess that the constant ‘time’ creates can be a very powerful tool to having a better day; If you ever feel overwhelmed, lost or confused simply taking a moment to locate your own emotions, values and reactions can provide you with a clear head and new motivation to assert yourself and obtain that positive mind frame that we need for inspired living.
Often the weight of recent events or future tasks become a large burden which really drags us down for lengths of time. My understanding of this is that our energy, our conscious thought, becomes emotionally driven by the symbolic ‘list’ of events that exist in the past and future. That emotional drive creates a connection between your current emotional state, the memory of previous feelings and the assumptions of what feelings are to come in the future. My reaction to this is to question why should something that exists outside of our grasp effect us in any other way than to motivate, empower or fulfill our emotions now?
The answer is that they shouldn’t. We can consciously gain awareness of what true emotions should exist at any moment, and filter away negative, disappointing and undesirable sensations created by the emotional baggage of past and previous events. I am not saying that these sensations should be ignored - instead - I am saying that there is a time and a place for each of these sensations to take hold of our lives in full. Anytime outside of that relative moment for each sensation is time that we should consciously sample positivity, potential and motivation from past and future events.
I like to use a mild meditation technique to locate myself in time, and become aware of what emotional state is relative to that moment in time. It’s very easy and it can take a few seconds to obtain a brief moment of enlightenment to inspire your day:
- Place your hands and feet flat on the nearest place which is comfortable, this way be a desk, an arm rest or your lap and the floor.
- Close your eyes and concentrate gently on the areas of your hands and feet which are connecting to the environment around you.
- Concentrate carefully on the texture, the temperature, the environment that is around you and let those feelings manifest into an emotional response. e.g if you’re standing on a sharp object your emotional response will be a urgent need to move! or If you are resting your hands against the carpet as you’re lying on your back in your favorite room, you may feel that the emotional response is one of safety, calm and familiarity.
- Spread the areas of concentration from your hands and feet, all the way across your body to every area that is pressing against an object and let your emotional response intensify.
- At this time it would be a good idea to notice that your emotional response to your current surroundings is only relative to what is happening right now.
- Now that you are concentrating on the moment, and how you feel in that moment imagine that emotions are a warm glow, a glow that fills your body and fills you with the emotions of the moment that you are currently living.
- Take a deep breath and exhale, imagine exhaling the warm glow into the room around you. That awareness of the moment is now filling the room and has become your environment.
- Open you eyes and reflect on what exists in the moment, and what has been pushed aside during your meditation. You may find that a pressing matter has become a manageable thought, or your writers block has now distanced itself further into the future and it no longer stimulates your anxiety.
By becoming aware of what emotions really exist in that moment you are able to complete the process of “Finding Yourself in Time”. With this awareness you can then consciously invite sensations which relate to past and future events back into your moment, and while doing so be sure to concentrate on welcoming the positive, motivational or meaningful aspects of those moments and allow the moment you live in to manifest into one which is truely valueable towards a better day and inspired living.