You know when you get that feeling of something that you love to do? It kind of just finds you. You realize Wow! I would really love that!

Have you ever wondered why we don’t simply say, “Yes!” to that feeling?

I used to get feelings like that often. There were things I would love to do or be in my life. When the feeling came to me it was as though I could also see it clearly in my imagination. I could see myself having or being that experience I feel. But then a moment later, I would hear a voice…

This voice would give me reasons why what I wanted to do was not possible. It would look at my current circumstances and give me logical reasons for why I was simply just dreaming.

Sometimes, I would even find reasons for why it was possible. But, again, I was no longer coming from what I was already feeling. My mind had taken over and laid out a plan for how I thought it was all going to happen.

You see: In both scenarios, I realized I had left the moment, that feeling of love for what I would like to have, do or be. It had found me and I had rejected it. I had gone to my mind and let it take over, or better put, I had simply gotten in the way.

How did I realize this?

Well, what business is it of mine trying to work out how things would happen? I had been making plans and goals all my life. Hardly any of them would ever go to plan or come about in the way I wanted them to.

If they did come about, it was an effortful process. During the whole process, I was attached to the outcome or result. It meant something to me. I was invested in it.

If it came about, only then I would feel love again. I would feel complete and happy.

Just like that feeling found me in the moment, why couldn’t I trust that everything else that was required in order for that feeling to express through me would also find me?

I realized I hadn’t given it a chance. I had taken over as Jamie. My identity and everything I thought was possible according to who I think am was controlling my decision making.

Living this way was like throwing my power away. I was placing power in my circumstances rather than simply being and letting my circumstances unfold to support the decision to express the love I already felt.

This doesn’t mean I did nothing. It means I stayed present. I remained present to the feeling rather than my story. Then, in each moment, I would continue to follow what I felt to do. And I did so without the agenda or need to chase the outcome my mind was telling me I needed in order to feel loved or complete.

Instead in being present, I was already feeling the love and completeness.

This is when I got to play. I was able to be myself and enjoy life rather than chasing it. In knowing myself as already being that feeling of love, already being complete and whole, I was now free.

‘When we come to truly know ourselves, there will no longer need to be a choice involved of having to choose love or fear..’

It takes time. But, I promise when you start to actually live in the present moment, you will become aware of what life is really about, you will become aware of who you truly are. Then you will live for what is real: love.

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Pic: Murad Osmann

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