Focus your mind, become mindful of the moment. How could we approach this common proverb of modern wisdom? I will share with you my personal insights into practicing finding the moment and cultivating presence. I will try, as best I can, to provide some directions to approach the practice and hopefully give you a leg up on your own mindfulness journey.
This is it, right now. It’s just we are so out of tune with now, that we don’t appreciate the miracle. Being mindful is as much taking our nervous system for a tune up, as it is a decision made within our thinking minds to remember doing so. So eat the foods that support your nervous system, and get the rest you need along with balanced physical activity. Try to avoid toxins that cause changes within the flow of your nervous system’s balance. Relaxed conscious control within ourselves, gives us access to an easy choice to remain in tune within our unique presence. To be a mindful person, cultivate the sense of continual being, and anchor your homeostasis there.
In a healthy body, a quiet mind is not too far away from us. Being in balance biologically, enables our mind to selectively fit the shape of our body. This is a mindfulness beyond the words or ideas that are impressed upon us through conditioning. As we gently retrain our mind to fit our presence within the moment, we recruit cells to align with the nervous system. Then we cultivate a conscious field within our experience that is our own. If there is a limit to presence, no-one has found it yet. Find your own cutting edge, and enjoy growing into it like an old Oak Tree or a firm Mountain within your living story.
Within the flow of self-awareness, we can adopt a focal point for our senses. Seeing is useful generally, yet seeing in focus is a kind of deeper mastery. As the scientist detects easily the details of their field of expertise, or the artist is sensitive to their own school of expression, we can cultivate our own focal point. Perhaps some people work well with a tactile point of focus. Some, in that case for example, become aware of the breath flowing against the tip of the nose. Another person may work with the vision, and sense a point in space upon the center of the brow. Whichever point in space you prefer to work with, find that point and allow your attention to focus. When we have a flow of concentrated awareness upon a point in space we can bring out consciousness of the entire surrounding moment into focus about it.
Then our awareness can shift from a vague approximation of events that is more based on past memories and theoretical habits, and into a living clarity. Then we follow the flow of experience, not from the surface of striving but with a step into fourth dimensional awareness. As we focus our presence, our mind awakens its ability to hold itself real in spacetime. This allows us to live more moments fresh and true. Rather than sleepwalking through life as if trained by a system that prefers us conveniently half-dead, and mostly controllable, we can find a flow of mindfulness that enables us to resonate with a higher version of ourselves. Then we invite growth for those around us and bring glory to those that came before us.
This sort of ability or capacity, is not a fashion or a scheme for profit. It is such an innate part of human nature that we all must take a brave step into grounding this kind of living if we are to experience a new world together. We have been corralled away from our own bright destiny, just so others can charge us for the privilege of trying to remember it. If we make progress on this path, share your insights freely I humbly request. The delay only suits those that wish to keep us in old patterns. Let us move smoothly into New Earth, however that will look in our mindful moments together.
Focus – Hocus Pocus
Tristan James Johns 