If you’ve ever been stuck in your head (like me) with recurring thoughts racing around to create chronic anxiety, then you know that sometimes stopping to take 10 deep breaths just isn’t enough to calm the mind down. (Don’t get me wrong; it helps sometimes!) How can we align the mind and body, head and …Read More
Category: Education
This is Water – David Foster Wallace
There are these two young fish swimming along, and they happen to meet an older fish swimming the other way, who nods at them and says, “Morning, boys, how’s the water?” And the two young fish swim on for a bit, and then eventually one of them looks over at the other and goes, “What …Read More
Finding Truth in the Present Moment
When I was 10 years old, I loved to watch Star Trek. I loved Spock. I loved logic and reason. “The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” – Spock, Star Trek It just made sense. What’s up with these silly things we call emotions? It’s just not rational. Knowledge is power. …Read More
Happy New Year 2017! New Blog 2017!
Happy New Year! What an elusive term, this present moment! It is gone almost as fast as we notice it. Staying in the moment requires a constant letting go of expectations and judgments, letting go of this moment as it fades into the past, and focusing on the ever-present and ever-changing NOW. This is the place …Read More
Welcome to my new blog!
Welcome to my new blog! The official launch of this blog and website is January 1, 2017. livingthepresentmoment.com will be a website dedicated to education. I envision supporting the evolution to a more deeply connected, aware, conscious and present world. Prior blog posts will remain at opendreaming.wordpress.com, and some may be republished here eventually. “Living the …Read More