Hi substackers hope you all doing well, As my sunday mornings start with a cup of black coffee sitting on my favourite couch while observing the nature mindfully.
I came to realise that we are so blessed that our planet has abundant life forms of nature if you feel the moment you are into.
The whole game lies into the present as it is mentioned in Buddhism and Hindu traditions who established the concept of Sati i.e mindfulness we can say the right Mindfulness to end suffering by seeing reality clearly without the filter of ego as roman philosphers emphasizing that the only time we ever possess is the present moment.
The Psychological factor explained by the figures like Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers identified presence as a vital quality for therapists to help patients heal.
If you become a Watcher of your thoughts you will realise the mind and the self are the two different aspects afterwards as there is an entity witnessing the thought that witness is your true essence while the thought is just a temporary mental noise. The emotional pain is an energy field of old emotions of anger,grief, trauma that lives within you.
If you dissolve this burden through by staying present it will be gone as you stop feeding it with more thoughts and you see its energy eventually transmutes.
For an instance if you are stuck in the mud surrender is acknowledging that I am stuck in the mud without the inner scream of I shouldn't be here. Once you accept the reality of the moment you can take clear effective action to get out.
Sometimes your mind is racing your body is the only thing that is always in the present just acknowledge 5 things you see, 4 you can touch, 3 you hear, 2 you smell, and 1 you can taste otherwise you can try box breathing you have to inhale for 4 seconds, hold for 4, exhale for 4, hold for 4 which will regulate your nervous system instantly.
Scientifically it shifts the brain activity from the Default Mode to the task positive network this will shrink the brain stress center and strengthens the logical center which allow us to respond to high pressure situations with clarity instead of impulse.
As i observed the Ronaldo’s technique. Before a penalty you will see him take a deep visible breath and stare intently at the goal eventually he is not thinking he is anchoring in the body into the present.
Lord Krishna’s most famous advice to Arjuna is the definition of Presence in action
“Your right is to the work alone, never to its fruits.” (Chapter 2, Verse 47)
When you focus on the fruit it will reside you into future which will create anxiety within but focusing entirely on the work will detach you from the results leads to the Flow State.
However the crux of presence can be reduced to one word that is Awareness it is not an awareness of something but just Awareness itself.
Love the succinct, to the point writing. I like the application layer of it all . Practising meditation, mindfulness, grounding and breathing exercise, have visible benefit- the brief explanation around it makes a case for it.
Also chef’s kiss for the eventual flow into Gita. A good nudge to anyone who’d like to develop more understanding around presence.