Being Present in Every Moment

Everything is so clear when I'm present.

When I'm curious about the moment, when I examine the colors, sounds and sensations that come to me... The world is no longer mysterious. It's no longer frightening. Stories of success and failure feel far away.

Action gets easier, too.

Every gesture is obvious, and problems seem to solve themselves.

And yet I spend most of my time elsewhere.

Even though I meditate in the morning and come back to presence several times a day, I keep getting caught up in urgency and mental fabrication. Less than before, maybe.

Still, in those moments it feels like going back to square one. Everything turns serious again. The past and the future are threatening again. We're back to trying to solve problems that didn't exist two minutes earlier.

Apparently it's normal: we move in and out of presence.

The goal is to stabilize it, to truly change our operating system.

I'm going to work on it.