Moment And Moments - Part II

To return to the nature of being in Moment, examine your mind (thought center) and heart (emotion center). When you find yourself in the future, the past, or any other imaginary scenario via your thoughts or emotional responses, you are no longer in Moment, but in illusion. Reality is that any thoughts or emotions you have are not your Essence, or presence of Being. They are imaginary.

Some people might consider being in Moment to be a meditative state. While that is acceptable, the object here is not to label, but to do. This state can be very tranquilizing and one might lose track of time quickly. Consciousness of time as increments, distinguished one from another by characteristic differences, is an example of being in illusion. Time is perceived as simultaneous Unity when in Moment.

Once you are accustomed to what Moment is, you will notice immediately when you are in illusion instead because of the distinct perceptual difference between consciousness of illusion and Awareness in Moment. Consciousness of illusion is like watching a movie; you may get intellectually and emotionally involved, but you are not really in it. Often, there is a sense of not giving yourself to Experience, but maintaining yourself apart from it, at some emotional and/or mental distance.

Awareness in Moment means you are Experiencing fully, not distracted by some mental or emotional imaginary evaluation of Experience. You Experience totally and become one with it. This idea of becoming (actually being) one with Experience describes being in Moment. You withhold nothing of yourself; you do not keep parts of yourself away because, for example, you might feel hurt if you allow those parts to Experience in Moment. Look at the idea of having parts to yourself vs. being just You. You will notice the similarities to living in moments vs. being in Moment.

Even the expression, Experience in Moment, is a misnomer, because the true objective is what can be described more accurately as you experiencing yourself. In truth, all your Experience is you experiencing yourself because Experience takes place within you. It is you. It is consciousness as a function of Awareness.

The challenge is here because you may not want to experience all of yourself. Some "parts" of yourself may be embarrassing or frightening to you. They may cause you to deny that they are part of you. Many mental health difficulties are rooted in beliefs that a part of a person is bad, inadequate, unsatisfactory, evil or wrong. The criticized person may believe their personal evaluation is accurate, sometimes offering their therapist's professional evaluation as evidence. Crucial to mental, emotional, and spiritual health is the recognition that a person must embrace and resolve all self-perceptions so life can be experienced fully and unconditionally.

How do you embrace and resolve parts of yourself that cause discomfort? The first step is recognizing that none of the Essence that is You is bad, good, or anything else other than just being. You are, and being You is enough validation. I am not talking about actions and/or responses to Experience. I am referring to the Essence that is You. Responses are not You.

You are validated, just as You are.

Begin by looking at the spectra (dimensions) of thoughts, emotions, beliefs, and knowledge that you have concluded is you. Deciding that some of these are bad and others are good is no different than looking at a spectrum of visible light and deciding that certain colors, or wavelengths, are displeasing, and others are pleasing. These distinctions add more parameters, or dimensions, to Experience.

Further, dividing Experience up by making distinctions is an example of the dimensionalizing of Experience. This is the cause of complications, complexity, problems, and the need for solutions to them. The process can become addictive, leading to a repetitive spiral into ever-greater complexity.

By contrast, think about how it feels to regard all of the wavelengths as equally acceptable. Doing this is what will enable the embracing. (continued in Part III)