On being in the present moment

Life happens only in the present moment.

Connection with God is possible only in the present moment.

Divine Grace can be experienced only in the present moment.

People who live disconnected from their bodies cause dysfunction of the cognitive capabilities, and all the energy is drained as a result.

One needs to unite mind with body and to make an effort at focusing the mind on the present moment, because during this period of time God is trying to make people understand that they should gather all the power of the mind, which essentially means that all cognitive capabilities must be applied at the present moment.

During a conversation, people should not focus on anything that happened yesterday or years ago, because otherwise they will be unable to appreciate what a gift live is.

People should learn to interact in the present moment, that’s why God is creating many corresponding situations for their relationships.

Betrayal, instances of infidelity and lies can all happen to a person to prevent him from being asleep and teach him to learn to perceive reality as-is.

More and more people nowadays will be experiencing a clash of reality and illusion, because the mind still cannot perceive reality as-is.  People are not ready to perceive reality as-is yet.

The one who is ready to perceive reality as-is is ready to live in God.

It is necessary to teach people to love in the present moment, to be happy in the present moment, to laugh in the present moment.. The more people do this, the fewer difficult situations God will need to set up for them.

And people will learn to appreciate life itself.

That is the meaning of spirituality at large, pertaining to all directions of spirituality. All of them, including meditations, are geared towards bringing mind to the present.

Regardless of the technique of choice, the important part is for this technique to help one to be improving instead of degrading.

For example, many young people use drugs & alcohol to help them be in the present moment. This happens because neurons inside the brain, responsible for assigning importance to past and future, are disengaged.

One can remember the past, yet the attention is more directed to the body at present, which allows one to dissociate from the vivid events of the past.

Yet, this dissociation is fake, because it originates not from the heart and not from understanding, but rather from a chemical process. One needs to learn to enact this process by himself, with Divine help.  This will help a person become healthier and healthier.

Diseases make one’s mind to redirect attention towards the body, but why resort to this, considering that God created a human being as perfection!  One should go through the aforementioned process by himself.   

Since people don’t do so, God needs to find a way to redirect person’s thoughts towards the body (in the present), so that a person can unite himself. And that will enable God to open other doors, so that people would experience bliss and connection with the Divine.

Yet, attaining unity is the first step to take.