ON BEING PRESENT

It's "Be Present" week in Rev. James Mellon's Mental Muscle Program. www.spiritualbootcamp.com

I'm having a major breakthrough about BEING Present. I have always known that this is the key to Eternity. Why is it so difficult, then? It should be easy. Okay...I'm claiming that now. It is easy to BE present.

But, when I was writing in my journal this morning, I followed my thoughts. Amazing! There was so much jumping happening...all in the future. Would I get this done? What about that? I was on overload. That is when I said, "Stop It!" Then, I kept having the feeling, up to the point of going out the door, that I should take a much needed personal day to just be with myself and catch up on my LIFE. This is not the usual me. In fact, this "one-hour for yourself" thing is the only thing I have never been true to in 8 Mental Muscle boot camps. (Like in the "Artist's Way" you are supposed to take an hour for yourself each day...)

Today, I finally, said, "It's time to take a moment just for yourself, Rita. Not only did I take a whole hour. I am taking the whole day. That's 8 hours! Makes up for some of my past negligence! At my job it’s called a “Personal Day!” I took one without a guilt-cheese sandwich, and everyone was just fine with it.

I am discovering that the more I slow down, the more time slows down. Time is an illusion, after all. I want to walk through life with grace and ease.