Think about little kids who can’t wait to get to their destination and miss most everything that’s happening on the ride.
We can be like those children, too.
Lately, I’ve been observing people who are in the middle of transitions – starting new businesses; hoping to get work; ready for change; trying to heal faster; wanting more; needing different; can’t take living with tormenting thoughts any longer.
It can be challenging and discouraging, especially when there’s no going back and the future calls.
But how does one get there? There’s a need to get there because that’s where survival and happiness seem to be.
And the present… well, this is the painful part. Because the perception is that success and well-being appear to live in the future or in a memory of the past when everything will be or was better. Now is full of worry, anxiety, stress and suffering.
Actually, the miserable feelings come from living in the future or past: being here and wishing we were there. It’s an inner battle with time and a (mis)perception of how things are supposed to be.
We often get frustrated because we want everything to be the way we want it now, but it isn’t.
It’s okay. Just take things a step at a time. With each step, you’ll be closer to your destination. It helps a lot if you stop judging yourself and your situation with disapproval… and you’ll feel much better, too!
If we’re waiting for better days, we’re missing the only place they exist – in the present moment.
Your past and future only consist of other moments. If you’re not happy in this moment, you’ll repeat the patterns of stress and dissatisfaction in your future or your reflections of the past.
Furthermore, you’ll attract more experiences that will give you more of the same feelings you have now, regardless of how much you hate them. Like attracts like.
Here are some quotes that may help you take your power back or realize that you always had it but gave it away to ill-conceived perceptions of time.
“Waiting is a state of mind. Basically, it means that you want the future; you don’t want the present. You don’t want what you’ve got, and you want what you haven’t got. With every kind of waiting, you unconsciously create inner conflict between your here and now, where you don’t want to be, and the projected future, where you want to be. This greatly reduces the quality of your life by making you lose the present.”
“Waiting is a state of mind that says we want what we don’t have… Are you a ‘habitual waiter’?”
“It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.”
Eckhart Tolle
Are you there yet?
Or are you here?
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We only have today. Let us begin.”
Mother Teresa
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Reposted from Soulgoals’ blog May 14, 2018
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