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This We Have Now
This we have now
is not imagination.
This is not
grief or joy.
Not a judging state,
or an elation,
or sadness.
Those come and go.
This is the presence that doesn't.
- Rumi
(excerpt from the translation of Rumi by Coleman Barks.)
“The Universe is continuously emerging as a fresh creation at every moment. All point to this same, extraordinary insight. The Universe is not static, nor is its continuation assured. Instead, the Universe is like a cosmic hologram that is being continuously upheld and renewed at every instant. A universal encouragement found across the world’s wisdom traditions is to live in the ‘NOW.’ This core insight has a clear basis in physics: The present moment is the place of direct connection with the entire Universe as it arises continuously. Each moment is a fresh formation of the Universe, emerging seamlessly and flawlessly.”
The present moment is the place of direct connection with the entire Universe.
― Alexis Karpouzos, Cosmology: Philosophy & Physics
Dear Wise Women,
Last week we explored how asking “I wonder” and “what” shifts the energy and opens a portal to additional information, information that is not retrievable from the lower dimensional vibration that is induced when we ask linear questions such as “why, how, when and where”.
Together, we explored how fully opening our heart to wonder is akin to childbirth. How accessing a higher dimension of being requires us to lean into our resistance and discomfort and to embrace the contraction that inevitably precedes all expansion. With this analogy, I asked you to view yourself as a midwife to the birth of a higher consciousness.
Today we add presence to our midwifery bag of tools. We will discover or, more aptly, RE-discover the Power of Presence.
I say RE-discover because I ask each of you to venture into this discovery with a sense of wonder. I invite you to approach the word “presence” as though you have never heard it before, for as we have learned this opens us up to new energies and heightens our ability to receive information that we may not have received otherwise (in Buddhism, this is referred to as cultivating a “Beginners Mind”).
Presence will be our topic for this week and next. This week we will feel into the magic of presence and next week we will explore what is possible when we open up to other ways of experiencing what we call “time”.
We begin by contemplating the subtle differences between PRESENT MOMENT AWARENESS and PRESENCE. This summation is based on my experiences and the perspective of various trusted teachers.
Present moment awareness is something we practice.
Presence is something we become.
Present moment awareness opens the portal to a higher vibration.
Presence is the higher vibration.
Present moment awareness is the birthing process.
Presence is the creation.
When we practice being present by bringing our awareness to this moment and embracing it exactly as it is we open a portal to a higher vibration that causes the mind to harmonize with the heart - and in this moment we experience the magical creation of NOW. This IS the emergence of the higher consciousness, heaven on earth, or fifth dimensional experience we are talking about.
REMEMBERING IS THE RE-BIRTH!
“The more you are willing to just let the world be something you’re aware of, the more it will let you be who you are — the awareness, the self, the atman, the soul.”
- Michael Singer, “The Untethered Soul”
“Joy, abundance, and health are automatic by-products of present moment awareness. Like our Inner Presence, they are already within us. It is our attention that is elsewhere.”
— Michael Brown, “The Presence Process”
“The foundation for a new earth is a new heaven - the awakened consciousness. The earth - external reality - is only its outer reflection. The arising of a new heaven and by implication a new earth are not future events that are going to make us free. Nothing is going to make us free because only the present moment can make us free. That realization is the awakening.”
“Awakening as a future event has no meaning because awakening is the realization of Presence. “
- Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth
The Magic (and importance) of Dreamtime
“Waking up is the recognition that the eternal now is all you have. Waking up in fifth dimension is different from your current form of waking up. This should be obvious, but for the sake of discussion it is useful to say so. You will find that your rest will become deeper and deeper as you become more fifth-dimensional. You may realize that you have trouble “waking up” in the morning or awakening from naps. This is real. This is a new function of waking up in fifth dimension. This is because you are going deeper, connecting with other versions of you, and waking up your inner awareness of who you really are!
Certain alignments take place in the dreamtime that are essential to our ever-present now. Help yourself by choosing to slow down the wake-up process: allow your body to drift slowly into awareness from the dreamtime in order to bring your most evolved essence back into your body. This is your opportunity to maximize higher dimensional energies. Your physical rest is your time away from the body. You also may be bringing in a better version of the body you have.
One of the most important circumstances that keeps you out of fifth dimension is not getting enough sleep. In fact you may need much more sleep than you may think is necessary. Longer sleep times take you deeper and deeper into your fifth dimensional expression. This is because during these deeper rest periods you are able to recalibrate with your higher vibrational self which allows you to maintain your fifth dimensional self while waking.”
St. Germain, Maureen J.. Waking Up in 5D: A Practical Guide to Multidimensional Transformation
INVOCATION:
“I am recalibrating to the vibration of the present moment”
“In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation.
This is the realization of oneness. This is love.”
- Eckhart Tolle, “The Power of Now”
The Embrace of Presence
Like a warm blanket
allow presence to wrap you up,
comfort you,
and hold you.
There is nothing to do
but to allow.
For the embrace of presence
awaits you
like a mother waiting to hold her newborn child.
All you must do is open up
enough
to receive.
- Patti Wardlaw