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Standing in your own two shoes

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An excerpt from Falling Into Grace: Insights on the End of Suffering The real search isn't a search into tomorrow, or to anywhere other than now. It's starting to look into the very nature of this moment. In order to do that, you have to "stand in your own two shoes," as my teacher used to say. What she meant by "standing in your own two shoes" is you have to look clearly into your own experience. Stop trying to have someone else's experience. Stop chasing freedom or happiness, or even … [Read more...]

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The Path of Presence

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Question: What is fear and how do I deal with it? Answer: Fear is a primal feeling that dates from prehistoric days. It is a feeling that was originally designed to move us to "fight or flight" whenever our physical survival was threatened. This fight-or-flight response has played a large part in the survival of the species. But as we became more sophisticated and moved more and more into the mind and its world of thought and emotion, fear entered inappropriately into that world. The … [Read more...]

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Becoming Habitually Present

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sciandra

I want to be more present. I really do, but I find myself slipping into states of mindlessness more often than I'm comfortable with. I, of course, have no idea that I am checked out until something occurs to snap me back, and I realize that "Elvis has left the building" (as I have dubbed it). I have explored the virtues of mindfulness many times in my writing, so you know that it is something I place great importance on, so these occurrences are a regular wake-up call to me of how far I have … [Read more...]

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Unlocking the Secrets of Life

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"If everyone in society lives in the present moment, if we are able to accept people as they are, there will be no problems, no strife." -- His Holiness Sri Sri Ravi Shankar As founder of the Art of Living Foundation (www.artofliving.org) and the International Association for Human Values (www.IAHV.org), Sri Sri Ravi Shankar (www.srisri.org) has inspired a global phenomenon of compassion and service. With a mission to unite the world into a violence-free, stress-free global family, he travels … [Read more...]

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The Answer We Seek is more Simple than We Believe

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As I walk my dog, Ghandi, through the nearby park, I feel alive. I witness the vast spectrum of color as the sun shines on a field of snow. We stop walking and just listen...first stillness...then birds sing a happy song. And, just as we begin walking again, Ghandi freezes, gazing intently in front of us at nothing I can see, and I wonder if he is seeing beings without bodies tracking our every move. I see nothing, and Ghandi will not budge. I ask him what he sees, and he doesn't look up at … [Read more...]

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Overcoming Abuse in our World

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Question: Humans can be very abusive in their unconsciousness. How can we overcome abuse in our world? Leonard's Answer: This is an extremely important question. Humanity is caught in a never-ending cycle of abuse. One lifetime we play the role of abuser, and the next lifetime, we are the abused. The same thing manifests in this lifetime. We are either the abuser or the abused, and sometimes we are both. We are lost in false power, which is the cause of all the abuse throughout history and … [Read more...]

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Living an awakened life

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To be awake in the truth of life is to be fully present in the moment of now. It is profoundly peaceful and blissful. You are so fully present with everything around you that separation largely dissolves and you experience Oneness. A deep inner knowing arises and yet you are in silence. You come to know yourself as love. You are accepting, compassionate. You are empowered from within. Profound insights and revelations sometimes emerge out of the silence. Spontaneous healings can occur. At the … [Read more...]

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The Path to Peace is in the Present

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When I was in Sedona, AZ, about a year ago, I was reminded of an interview I read with travel journalist and chef Anthony Bourdain. He said that he no longer takes photographs when he travels, as he is inevitably disappointed by how poorly they capture his experience. I had been treated to a stay at an incredible spa nestled in the floor of a spectacular, red rock canyon, surrounded by parkland. In a freak meteorological event, it had turned cold and damp and rainy in late May and we'd been … [Read more...]

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Embracing the Present: A Moment with Leonard Jacobson

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Leonard Jacobson will speak at Old Arizona in Minneapolis on July 31.

"To be present is to awaken into that dimension of your self and that dimension of life which is transcendent of the thinking mind. You are silent and you are fully present with what is actually here now. If you are fully present, there is no moment other than this moment. That is what it means to be awake in the truth of life. You are so fully present that you exist in this moment, and only in this moment. You are awake in the eternal now." - Leonard Jacobson Leonard Jacobson, founder of … [Read more...]

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Living and Learning in the Moment

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My job as a Therapeutic Coach® and facilitator is to guide people to a point where they can choose to live in the moment. A point where they realize that asking "why" or "how" is not important or necessary, because they experience both when simply staying present. Often we knowingly or unknowingly hold restrictions that prevent us from living in the moment. These restrictions are boxes that were created to structure our lives, and they are generally no longer necessary. … [Read more...]

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