The Freedom Of Now

We give a lot of weight, we often anchor ourselves, to the experiences we just had. Especially the ones that affect us in deep emotional way, whether positive or negative.

But often we wake up the next morning and, for a while, we’re not feeling the weight, whether good or bad, of yesterday’s experience at all.

It is as though nothing happened.

We’ve forgotten.

And then suddenly we remember and, if you’re anything like me, all of the emotion can come flooding back too.

But skip back a moment. Before we remembered, it was “as though nothing happened”.

And in fact, if we so choose, it can remain like that. Reality is right here, right now. We can begin again, because what is in our heads is all there really is.

Maybe we would find this ability helpful when it comes to letting go of the truly useless bad emotions and memories that can hang around and haunt us forever, if we let them. Instead, they can become the bare whisper of a cloud, which wanders into our conscience, and straight back out.

In fact that is what those memories and emotions really are, when we don’t try and fight them, or block them, but simply acknowledge them without embrace.

But it’s also just as helpful to take the same approach to the memory of good experiences. Clinging on to them, can also be a kind of prison.

Anyway, that’s what I’m finding. The amount of time I spend anchoring myself to anything that has been and gone, is time I don’t have to experience The Freedom Of Now.