How is a fear of time affecting your skill to stay in the present moment? In today's post, we will have a raw discussion on how to stay present 101, some tips, and some situations to watch out for.
The following are experimental ideas. They are not always the case, but interesting perspectives to consider nonetheless.
The present moment is not a still moment in time. There is motion in the perception of the present.
There may be only now. However, now is moving. In this way, tracking the present moment may be blocked by how you fear organic motion in your perception.
Psyche Performance Tip: Watch if when you try to be present, you instead keep freeze-framing your sensory input. Sometimes people try to achieve stillness in the motion of time by freezing themselves and detaching.
This is because sometimes you may think you desire to be still in the motion of the present, but instead, you are unconsciously attempting to freeze in the motion of time and call it presentness. In this way, an enlightened and wholesome sense of non-attachment to time may get confused with dissociation.
In my content, I explore what happens when you request the brain and nervous system to function within a certain outcome. I also explore that sometimes when you request the physiology to perform a function, it may interpret and perform your request too literally. These literal results are often unconscious and subtle. Let's explore what may happen when you request your physiology to be in the present moment and the performance function of the brain can get too literal.
Literal Psyche Performance Example One: The present is not only an experience. The present is a mode of time. When you request to perceive the present, sometimes the mind may interpret that you are requesting to literally witness time itself. Therefore, it detaches to show you documentation of time, which is the only memorable visual of time - the past.
Literal Psyche Performance Example Two: When you request to perceive the present, the mind interprets that you are requesting to view your relationship with time. Therefore it detaches from the awareness of the motion of life itself, to show you instead your relation to time. In this case, though you asked to feel more present, what instead happens is that you begin analyzing your relationship to time. You may feel a subtle fear arise that time is fleeting, too temporary, that you are temporary, that the moment is, that one day this will be the past. What arises in the face of being present then is a fear of time itself - or a sensationally flickering showing your true relationship to time.
It is natural to have a fear of time but realize that if time is a trigger for you, the present may always be too.
Journaling Question: In what ways do you have an unconscious avoidance of time's motion? How does this impact your relationship to genuinely wanting to witness the present moment?
As always, feel free to book a session with me or head to the self-discovery shop to continue your self-exploration.
Until next time,
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