Let Go And Live In The Now

 

 

Self-Realization Author
GUY FINLEY
Author of "Let Go And Live In The Now"

 

Before we get started, I would just say a few words about what it is that's required of all of us if we would find the higher life we all long for.

We've all been down a thousand roads only to find that we reach what amounts to the beginning of yet another road with just another name for where we've been before. This is why, if we are going to change ourselves, as well as help and heal the world around us, we must ourselves learn what it takes to become New.

This idea of finding our new and true nature requires real exploration and willingness to discover what we must about ourselves.

We need a new kind of knowledge about ourselves because as long as we seek this sense of newness for which we all hunger in the world around us, we may as well buy a new mirror and think what we see in it is the same as a new you or I.

We can awaken.

We can discover what is necessary to become brighter, better, and kinder human beings.

All it takes is a willingness to discover the new and the true, which is what we will do tonight.

How to release the roots of painful attachments.

The first thing that we must all learn is, what it is within us, that actually creates these attachments, that wind up causing so much heartache for us when we lose the person or object we were attached to.

The way that we presently are, meaning our present nature, we are always finding a certain pleasurable sense of ourselves in other people, or the promise of brighter things to come. In this there's nothing wrong.

Where we wind up hurting is when that in which we have vested this sense of self changes, as it must under law, then we feel as though we are losing ourselves because of this change that has happened.

Now we're worried or angry, perhaps frightened.

We're unsure of what will happen to us because of what has happened around us. This is a recipe for all kinds of sorrow.

 

The answer that must come to us, as it does and will when we begin learning the lessons we must, is that we are intended to find a higher part of our own nature that is not depended upon anything exterior to us for its sense of well being, happiness, and security.

Regarding the Three Thieves of Peace, that section of the book describes how certain mistaken ideas that we have, not only about ourselves, but how the world is supposed to satisfy us, causes this loss of our essential happiness.

For example...

1) Worrying about tomorrow. That's one of the Great Thieves of Peace.

2) Thinking what other people are thinking about us is a disturbance that can never be resolved by trying to control how people perceive us. It's just a punishment.

3) And all such pains produced by misunderstanding who and what we are, steal from us not only our peace of mind, but the possibility as well of transforming ourselves, of discovering in ourselves that nature from which nothing can be stolen.

 

 

Strangely enough, one of the greatest ways in which we come to have the necessary energy, and right passion for being present to ourselves and the moment, is by the continual seeing of the cost of being "asleep to ourselves."

What does this mean, "Asleep to ourselves?"

When we are always in thought -- caught up with concerns for the future or regrets for a past that had pain in it -- we are not in the present moment, but rather in the unconscious presence of a part of ourselves, that just wants the experience and sensations that come with thinking about it.

This is from "Let Go and Live In the Now."

"The fresh start we seek appears only as our old self disappears...only as we willingly die to 'who' we have been. To this end, and to help us do what is needed to free ourselves, we need to see that while our habit of revisiting and then reliving past mental and emotional states may lend us welcome and familiar sensations, it also costs us our chance to know the newness of Now, and where our True Self resides in a state of natural peace and power."

We'll call this, "The Stop, Look, and Listen" exercise.

 

First the Stop part:

Whenever we feel a weight upon us in our mind, or in our heart, whenever something nags at us in thought or through feeling, we must recognize in that moment that our sensation of ourselves -- of feeling this stress -- is a giveaway that something is working within us that has no right to be there. So we come to a stop.

Do it now.

We withdraw our attention from whatever that thought or feeling may be, and place our attention deliberately into the present moment. In other words, we come awake when we feel the ache.

The next step is the Look part.

When we can SEE that our experience in any moment is a direct expression, reflection really, of what we are in relationship with in ourselves in that same moment, we have a new power.

Now, for being able to SEE that this or that thought, and what it has tied us to, is the actual cause of the pain in the moment, we can choose to no longer embrace that thought or feeling. We see it hurts to hold onto it, to embrace what it would have us "consider", and we let it go.

The third part is the Listen part...

Once we come awake to the ache and see it as being unnecessary, and then "Look" to see what it is that we have allowed ourselves to fall into relationship with, then we let everything go and we remain wide awake and attentive in the moment.

Imagine you hear someone say something, but you're unsure as to what they said. Yet you know it involves you. All your attention, every ability you have, to "Listen" with every fiber of your being, goes there.

So it is with the third part of this exercise. We wake up. We see what is actual. We let go. And then we stay in that awakened state as long as we're able to.

This allows us to begin the process of "dying" to our own false nature, our "time self" if you will, so that our True Nature can naturally come forward.

 

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Guy is the director of Life of Learning Foundation a non-profit organization dedicated to helping individuals realize their true relationships with life through higher self-studies.

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