The Power of Now

I is the true self living in the present. That is what we truly are.

The Mind is what we may mistakenly identify with. He is the thinker, origin of thoughts and emotions. Emotion is the body reaction to your mind. The Mind is just a tool that the true self can use for day-to-day life, nothing more. Be the witnessing consciousness of the thinker. By being the watcher, the consciousness wakes up from the dream of identification with forms.

The Pain-body is an invisible entity, a negative energy field that accumulates past pain. It can be dormant or active. Any thought, or experience can activate it. As any entity, he can only survive in you by making you believe it is you. He will feed through your negative energy (pain, hatred). That is why some people behaves in order to get more pain. He is afraid of the light of consciousness. He is the shadow cast by the ego. Shine the pain-body with the light of consciousnesses to dissolve it. Don't be afraid of facing the pain-body. This is an illusion. If you realize it, it will disappear. Be the witness of the pain-body. You attained an higher dimension of consciousness called presence.

Clock time is the sequence of events we can refer to for our day-to-day life. With the clock time, we learn from the past mistakes and move on and all set clear goals in the future. Psychological time is the compulsive projection to the future and the accumulation burden of the past.

Presence, pure consciousness or Being is the same thing. The consciousness is being pure when the Mind has none of it.

To become conscious of the true self, focus your attention to the inner body energy field. Being more conscious of your inner body is the key to go more deeply into the Now. The inner body is the link to Unmanifested. The deeper inner body is the Unmanifested, the Source from which the consciousness arises. Becoming identified with the inner body slows down the aging process because the cells of your body will not endure the psychological time. It also strengthen your immune system. Practice feeling the inner body energy in every parts of your body, then in your whole body, every morning after waking up and every night before sleeping.

There are multiple portals to the Unmanifested are:

• Feeling intensely the inner body
• Being intensely present in the Now
• Cessation of Thinking
• Surrender: let go of any mental resistance to what is
• Contemplation of silence
• Contemplation of space

Some romantic relationship are dysfunctional because they contain inside the positive a yet unmanifested negative element. That is not love if there is an opposite to love, that is an egoistic need for a deeper sense of our self. True love has no opposite because it comes from beyond the mind. Love is not selective like the light of the sun.

Surrender to what is at every moment. In any unpleasant situation, it will you give a clearer path of resolution. Do not confuse surrender with the "I don't care" attitude, this attitude is masked inner resistance. Surrender by acknowledging resistance. Be present and observe how your mind is creating resistance. Realize that is serves no purpose. Make that unconscious resistance conscious to make it disappear. True communication begins when there is surrender to what is in a argument. Resistance is a weakness mistakenly considered as strength by the ego.