Tuesday, June 22, 2021
Is this moment as good as it can be? If you pause for a second, you may realize that the only thing that might be ruining this moment is your concern about the future. Or it might be that you’re simply negatively judging the quality of life, right this very second. Your concern about later is decaying the potential of now. When you’re waiting for things to change in the future, you are only denying access to the beautiful and immense joy that you could be experiencing, right this very second.
At the micro-level of the now, there is nothing really wrong -unless you’re saving a life or putting out a fire, but if you were, you wouldn’t be reading this! The only thing that might be “wrong” is your perception, your condemnation, or your present-moment, negative thinking. As humans, we have an incredible power to fully embrace joy, to feel satisfaction, to express gratitude, to know mental serenity, and to be love – right now, in this very moment. You don’t need to wait until you achieve your goals to feel these things. It’s the not the future that you are waiting for. The future contains no joy. How could it? It’s not even real. It is the present moment that’s waiting for you. It is waiting for you to embrace your inner joy, right now.
If you cover the joys of today with the worries of tomorrow, your tomorrow will only contain more worries. But if you amplify the joys of today and you magnify the love that exists in your heart, right now – your future will billow with amazing abundance. Be careful with the future. Don’t let it creep into the serenity that the now is offering to you. This moment can be rich; this moment can be fulfilling; this moment can be your destiny; this moment can be bliss; and this moment can be love. Let these things into your present moment today and stop letting the worrisome future ruin your potential for joy and abundance.