Believe in the Magic of NOW

Over the last year we’ve been hearing a lot of talk on the importance of staying in the moment, staying here, in this moment - now.

What does this mean? I would always ask myself this question. What does it mean to be in the now, how can one be here when I have so much to do tomorrow, and so many things I wish I had done yesterday. It’s difficult to imagine that elusive and peaceful place that is now.

What does it look like? How does it feel?

Last year was a tough one, and for those who felt called to go inward and do the work needed on themselves to get us through the complex moment in time that was the global pandemic - now is not where we all were. As much as I tried I was elsewhere.

I was 10 years ago in the midst of my back surgery and the psychological trauma and anxieties it had caused me. I was 5 years from now, wondering how we could ever raise kids in a world like this. I was everywhere and anywhere but now.

It took me months to realize that only after allowing yourself to come to terms with the past and let go of future expectations, do we finally arrive - heart beating, slow breathing, and eyes gleaming in the brilliant and eternal now. It is only when we work on being whole that we are able to really get there. And just sit there, feasting on our life.

The now is a place where you choose mindfulness, you choose the moment you are in, and you think only of it. It’s bigger than taking life one day at a time or one step at a time. It is the practice of cherishing every breath and every second.

It’s dancing before you leave your house in the morning because it changes the way you walk into the world.

It is realizing that not only are human beings designed to heal and grow and evolve - but if we really engulf ourselves in the now - we can even thrive.