What prevents us from being in our present moment?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_oA1uHsreW0GEObhQ7PsaObACgjN446TzxF3vTF5-ikRjLJgYTZE1dNTxeJFsSLAfd6NPvi-oxZP7fxXg6nV8SYqXNrXs-XVS74mzc0aKy2uOTuwUvikbs_4xX-JuBMpK0L40rjRC9VFg/s1600/imagecw123.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_oA1uHsreW0GEObhQ7PsaObACgjN446TzxF3vTF5-ikRjLJgYTZE1dNTxeJFsSLAfd6NPvi-oxZP7fxXg6nV8SYqXNrXs-XVS74mzc0aKy2uOTuwUvikbs_4xX-JuBMpK0L40rjRC9VFg/s1600/imagecw123.png" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">Our reactive thinking prevents us from being in the present moment. From our earliest life encounters, our reactive thoughts create storylines about our experiences. We bring our cognitive and emotional development as a five-year-old to our experiences of parents, family, love, safety and fear.<br /><br />In our storylines, we come to conclusions about ourselves and our world and make judgments about who we are, about whether or not our needs and feelings are OK or not. These storylines remain with us through adolescence and into adulthood. Throughout our life we add storylines and pile them one on top of the other. Our inner critic is an outgrowth of the conclusions we reach about who we are.</span>

What prevents us from being in our present moment?

Our reactive thinking prevents us from being in the present moment. From our earliest life encounters, our reactive thoughts create storylines about our experiences. We bring our cognitive and emotio…

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What is awareness?

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_oA1uHsreW0GEObhQ7PsaObACgjN446TzxF3vTF5-ikRjLJgYTZE1dNTxeJFsSLAfd6NPvi-oxZP7fxXg6nV8SYqXNrXs-XVS74mzc0aKy2uOTuwUvikbs_4xX-JuBMpK0L40rjRC9VFg/s1600/imagecw123.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_oA1uHsreW0GEObhQ7PsaObACgjN446TzxF3vTF5-ikRjLJgYTZE1dNTxeJFsSLAfd6NPvi-oxZP7fxXg6nV8SYqXNrXs-XVS74mzc0aKy2uOTuwUvikbs_4xX-JuBMpK0L40rjRC9VFg/s1600/imagecw123.png" /></a></div> <span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">We have been told that awareness is that part of us that perceives, observes and witnesses our thoughts, feelings, behaviours and body—the clothing awareness puts on—and we need to discover what is underneath. We need to realise that awareness lives at the innermost core of our being. When our awareness is in the present moment, we’re in touch with who we really are, with our very essence.<br /><br />Being in the present is being one with each heartbeat, each in-breath, each out-breath, from moment to moment…We only have our next breath, our next heartbeat, or we would not exist.<br /><br />“The past and future are only concepts, we only have the now…” – Jon Kabat-Zinn</span>

What is awareness?

We have been told that awareness is that part of us that perceives, observes and witnesses our thoughts, feelings, behaviours and body—the clothing awareness puts on—and we need to discover what is u…

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