The Abundance of Now

​We live in a world of ‘what if?’, ‘what might have been?’ and ‘what could?’.  How about living in the ‘what right now?’.
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If we stop and take a look at all that is around us right now, we can learn and be aware of the abundance of right now.

I can hear you saying… not me I’m not abundant. I’ve got bills coming out of my ears, I’ve got a job I really don’t like, I’m afraid to change in case….

STOP.

Take a minute to think about exactly what you do have right now.

• Are you breathing? Yes? Phew.

So to start with you have the abundance of breath which powers your body systems. Not only powers your body but is a powerful super tool against anxiety.  

• Are you reading, listening to this? Yes.

You already have a person who will listen to your story right here. You may have many others ready to listen your story too. If you hold that story inside how will it ever be told? Would Hansel and Gretel ever had made it out of the woods if the story was never told? Pinocchio would never have learnt to become a real boy. We follow those stories not knowing the outcomes but having a belief in where they would lead us.

In fact if we did not believe, like the author, Hansel and Gretel may have got lost in the woods forever. Pinocchio would just have been a wooden puppet on a carpenter's shelf. But we allowed ourselves to follow each moment believing that, moment by moment, belief would lead to positive outcomes. Even when obstacles were placed in the way.

So how does that make me abundant?  

As a child you used those amazing skills breathing, listening, learning to become the adult you are now. I suspect you’d not even thought of that.

How? You lived in that moment of time. Let’s take walking. You would have fallen over trying tens, maybe hundreds of times to walk. But the first time it worked and you walked steady, you forgot those other times and moved forward to the next step.

Life is about learning to try again. As the saying goes “falls down seven times, gets up eight”. Would Facebook exist? Google? Telephones? Would electricity exist if in a moment of difficulty they thought “I won’t bother again”?

I wouldn’t be writing this blog now if I hadn’t tried again. I struggled all my life to get words to make sense in a sentence, a page, an article. Now, if I slip a bit in the moment, I get up and in the moment check myself and go again.

How can the abundance of now help you?

The only moment you can truly deal with is right now. We do not know what will happen, even five minutes from now in reality. So take those bills out see how you can reduce them one by one. Maybe by talking to someone? An expert, citizens advice, a friend. A problem shared can bring a whole new perspective to a situation. That’s why I help people as a coach, a therapist, a mentor.

That job you don’t like, is it the job or is it all that’s going on around it? What are your skills? It took me 20 years but I finally pulled my fingers out of my ears and realised that my true skill is the art of listening, listening without judgement, not judging on what I may think. By doing this it allows my clients to learn to gain their belief to do the same thing, listen to themselves without judgement.

Choose to live in the now. Live every day, hour, minute to the max because you won’t get it back again.


So as you finish this last sentence I challenge you to STOP for a minute and listen to ‘the now’.