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Understanding The Law Of Attraction
I
Want To Be Happy Now
The title of this article is a bit sneaky in that it contains,
in the problem it poses to solve, its own answer. It’s in
the last word: ‘Now’. That is how to be happy – Now: to access
the power of the Now.
The Now is this moment and only this moment. Because Now it’s
this one. And Now this one. That first ‘Now’ at the beginning
of this paragraph and all subsequent ones since have already
become the past. And the next time the big 3-letter ‘N’-word
is mentioned here (you know the one we mean), it will be a
future Now – there it is. Until Now.
Why all this silliness focused on the present moment? Because
in truth, Now, or the present moment, is the only moment there
ever really is. Why is understanding that so important to our
happiness? Because all of our unhappiness, and every other
negative thought and emotion associated with it, exists in
the nonexistent past or future.
The present moment is timeless, eternal. And in it, if you
are really in it, to be unhappy is impossible. Unfortunately,
most of the time we think we’re in the present moment, we’re
really in our heads, thinking about it, judging it, fretting
about the past or worrying about the future. But in this inexorable
moment Now, where the past is behind us and the future has
yet to be, there is none of that (or at least there need not
be).
There’s just the breeze, or lack thereof. The sun, or clouds.
People and animals scurrying about, or lying still. Our thoughts
and feelings on those circumstances are judgments, but happiness
is not a judgment. It is an inward state of being, independent
of circumstances, thoughts, feelings, and judgments.
Try
for a moment, just being in the Now. It’s not so esoteric
as it may seem. All it means is to still your constantly jabbering
mind for a moment to let the still and silent observer deep
inside you observe this moment.
Observe the breeze, or lack thereof. Observe the sun, or clouds.
Observe the people and animals scurrying about or lying still.
And especially observe those thoughts, feelings, and judgments
about those things: about this exercise, even. And recognize
that none of those thoughts and feelings and judgments are
YOU. You are the still and silent observer watching and listening
to it all. Try as hard as you can to experience that state
for just a moment and then ask yourself if it was even possible
for unhappiness to wheedle its way in there somehow.
The still and silent observer that is the real You is at peace,
untroubled by errors of the past and hopes for the future.
Circumstances don’t make us happy or unhappy. That’s why whenever
we do manage to get what we thought we needed to be happy,
we suddenly find something else to fix on, to hinge our continued
happiness or unhappiness upon, something else that we must
have or change in order to maintain this happiness and stave
off future unhappiness.
Resistance to being fully present to the experience of this
moment as it is and nothing but is what fosters unhappiness.
Acceptance of this moment, embracing Now as it is, free of
and untrammeled by the past and future, is where true and unshatterable
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by SolveYourProblem.com
: 2008
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