Let's Just Stop And Come Back To Now

As we are moving through life and our days, the quality of our lives is largely determined by what we practice regularly. One of the most profound practices we can have is to come back to the newness of this moment on a regular and consistent basis.

Just coming back to the breath for a few short conscious breaths during our day will make a tremendous difference in the level of peace, harmony, and wholeness that we experience. I invite you to join me as we, once again, explore this simple but extremely powerful practice as a way to practice the presence.

Transcript

Blessings and welcome to the path to freedom.

I was going to say blessings and welcome back,

But that's not at all what I meant to say.

So blessings and welcome to the path to freedom,

This amazing path where we get to set ourselves free in all manner of ways,

In every single meaning of the word.

We get to set ourselves free from lower vibration,

Thought forms,

Fear,

Worry,

Doubt,

Sense of not being in absence of,

Not having in absence of lack,

Scarcity,

Separation.

We get to set ourselves free to be in ever-expanding love and joy and peace and harmony and wholeness and beauty and abundance and all these amazing qualities.

We get to set ourselves free to forever love for greater and grander expressions of who we are.

We get to set ourselves free to soar,

To shine,

To glow in ways beyond our imagination.

So there are so many beautiful benefits,

There are so many beautiful blessings,

There are so many beautiful gifts that just fall into our laps.

Not just fall into our laps,

It's work behind it,

But there are so many beautiful fruits to reap walking this amazing path,

This wonderful path,

This powerful path of freedom.

My name is Daniel Roqueo and I am very grateful and honored that you are choosing to join me in this now moment as we are allowing for our consciousness to expand,

As we are allowing for our vibration to be lifted and raised,

As we are allowing for that which no longer serves to go,

To be released,

To be dissolved.

And one of the things that we need to dissolve,

That we need to release and let go,

Is our mind's habitual tendency to move into time.

We're talking past tense,

We're talking present tense,

We're talking future tense,

The linearity of time.

And to come back to the nowness of this moment.

And as I'm having conversations with individuals and both individually in classes and such,

And what I'm observing in my own mind,

Is that the mind has this enormous,

What seems to be an enormous tendency to move into either past or future,

Which are the two tenses that are most predominant.

And there's nothing but issues.

It's sometimes said that the only space where problems ever exist is in time.

And this is absolutely so.

When we lean into the past,

We may be leaning into regurgitating,

Remembering,

Reminiscing past glories,

Past achievements,

Past hurts,

Past mistakes,

What they did to us,

What they did not do to us,

All these kind of things.

Or we may be leaning into the future,

Expecting,

Anticipating great things,

Which is on the surface a beautiful thing,

And it's obviously a lot better to be expecting great things and anticipate wonderful things than expecting and anticipating calamity and turbulence and disaster and doom and gloom and worst case scenarios and all of that.

But still,

Whenever we move out of the nowness of this moment,

Whenever we get hijacked by time,

We lose our footing in life,

In that which is now.

Because it is what is now that is.

The past,

It may have been great,

It may have been terrible,

But that's over,

That's been.

There's nothing we can do about it.

The future,

It hasn't even arrived yet,

So there's nothing we can do about that either.

But it is in this now moment,

If we want to be conscious participants and co-creators in the unfoldment of our lives,

The best place to be that,

The best space to be that,

Is in this now moment.

Because the choices that we are making now,

The choice that we make now,

It is the determining factor as to the future moments.

So the best way,

The most efficient way,

The only way for us to affect future moments,

Future now moments,

Is to be fully present in this now moment.

And also,

As a lot of us are not always expecting great things,

Anticipating miracles,

Or reminiscing all the good things,

But the mind has a tendency to lean into the negative.

The mind has a tendency to lean into the lower vibrations.

So fearing and worrying and doubting something that may or may not ever come to pass,

Ruminating,

Regurgitating,

Rehearsing,

Not rehearsing,

Repeating past experiences,

It serves nothing.

It serves nothing.

It serves nothing but moving us into negativity,

Into a spiral of negativity.

So the invitation and the practice,

And this is the second pillar of freedom,

Which I've come to rename as practicing the presence,

Which is when we,

To the very best of our ability,

Seek to come back to this now moment,

To come back to the nowness of this moment as often as we can.

We can be leaning into the breath,

We can be leaning into the body being fully present with body parts or whatever the case may be,

A particular sound or particular sight or whatever,

But to come back,

To release time,

To go beyond labeling,

To go beyond calling things anything.

I mean,

Even a tree or a bush,

A tree is not a tree,

A rose is not a rose,

It's just a label that we have at some point come into mutual agreement that this is what we're going to call it.

But by calling things things,

As the phrase that has come to me recently,

Or it was quite a while ago,

Everything is nothing until we make it something.

So by calling a tree a tree,

We miss out on the unique individuality of that particular being,

Of that unique,

Perfect,

Whole,

Complete expression of the one mind,

The one presence,

The one life.

But coming back to the nowness of this moment,

Really witnessing and observing what is here,

What is here around us,

What is here within us,

What is the content that is flowing through our minds,

What are the stories,

The beliefs,

The judgments,

The opinions that we are being hijacked by,

Or that we are being aware of in this now moment.

So coming back,

Witnessing and observing,

Coming back,

Coming back,

Coming back,

Making coming back a habitual practice.

I remember Eckhart Tolle saying at one point,

This was a long time ago,

He said that,

And I absolutely agree,

And this is a part of my practice,

He said that,

Well it's beautiful to be in meditation for half an hour every day.

Being in meditation for half an hour every day and then completely forgetting about being present for the remaining time of that day,

It does not serve nearly as much as skip the meditation,

And please don't hear that I'm inviting us to skip the meditation,

I'm not.

I'm inviting us to lean heavily into meditation.

But he said that it's better to skip the meditation and then have moments of coming back to the nowness of this moment,

Or as he calls it,

The now,

Many times during the day.

So that there is a balanced presence.

So there's a balanced practice of being present,

Kind of like when we're breathing.

When we are breathing,

Actually when we give the body permission to breathe.

Sometimes we breathe,

We take over the breathing,

And then it becomes ragged,

And it becomes uneven,

And it becomes unbalanced sometimes.

But when we release,

When we surrender to the body's ability,

Innate ability to breathe,

How the body breathes is very evenly.

It takes a little bit of breath here,

It releases it,

It takes a little bit of breath here,

It releases it,

It takes a little bit of breath here,

It releases it,

And on and on and on it goes.

It doesn't just take one big breath,

Then it's holding for as long as possible,

I can't hold it anymore,

I don't need it,

And then it takes another big breath.

That's not how the body works.

But there's a beautiful flow,

There's an even flow,

A balanced flow.

And we're wise to emulate that,

Or to at least use that as a reminder,

Or to use that as an invitation for us to have a very even nowness practice.

To practice the presence very evenly,

Absolutely to have a space of meditation every single day,

Where we sit in formal meditation,

But also using our moments in between to come back to the breath,

Come back to the breath,

Come back to the breath,

Come back to the breath.

It doesn't have to be for long,

It doesn't have to be for hours and hours at a time,

But just come back to the breath,

Being conscious with the breath,

Being aware of the breath for a couple of breaths,

Then releasing it,

Going back into the world,

And then half an hour later,

An hour later,

20 minutes later,

10 minutes later,

We come back,

Staying with the breath for a couple of breaths,

Moving back into the world.

This,

This is what allows us to remain sane.

This is what allows us to remain in a high vibration.

This is what allows us to not get hijacked,

Or at least not as hijacked by the content in our minds,

By the judgments,

The opinions,

The points of views,

The stories,

The beliefs that we hold on to,

That flow through our consciousness.

So this is a practice,

This is a powerful,

And it is a necessary practice.

I was having a conversation the other day with an individual who was sharing that in the presence of others,

This individual is very receptive to the energies of others.

This individual,

She shared that when in the presence of others who are in a lower vibration,

Who are perhaps in judgment,

Or opinion,

Or in anger,

That sort of rubs off on her.

So she finds herself in whatever feeling tone that they are experiencing.

And she was sharing that she found it difficult,

She found it a challenge to free herself from that,

By coming back to the breath,

Witnessing and observing what is going on,

Coming to a full stop.

In the middle of our day,

Many times during our day,

When in meetings,

I mean,

We can be with the breath in any moment.

There's no moment when being with the breath is not appropriate,

When it does not serve us.

Usually there's a moment,

There's a space when we initially begin to learn being with the breath,

Where it takes,

And it requires a conscious effort to be with the breath.

I remember when I began leaning into the breath as my anchor to the nowness of this moment.

There were moments when I was listening to someone,

And I had made it,

It was my intention to be with the breath,

So I was listening to them,

And I was reminded,

Or I reminded myself to come back to the breath,

And it took such an effort for me to be with the breath that I completely paid no attention at all to what they were saying.

It was like,

They weren't even here,

I was so focused on being with the breath.

So obviously there is,

We need to begin with having our training wheels before we can begin to do flips and turns and all of that.

And now,

A number of years later,

It is no effort at all for me to be with the breath,

So I can be fully present with the breath and still be fully present with what the other individual is saying.

So there's no space nor place when being fully present in this now moment when it distracts us from anything.

If anything,

It enhances our ability to be present.

Not if anything,

That is what it does.

It enhances our ability to be present with whatever it is that we're doing.

If I'm midwifeing a course,

I'm with the breath.

Now that I'm recording this,

I'm with the breath.

And obviously there are moments when my attention is not required really,

And then I fall out of the breath to a degree.

And then there are moments when there is a heightened intensity and then I'm pulled into the breath,

Being very present with the breath.

So it's sort of an on and off kind of thing.

Practicing being with the breath is never a distraction,

Is never unfavorable for us,

To us,

Coming back to the nowness of this moment,

Being fully present and anchored here in this now moment,

As the secret of the trees revealed to us,

Reminds us that they remain standing even in harsh weather because their roots run so deep into the ground.

So we are wise to let our presence roots run so deep into the consciousness,

Into the eternal moment,

The now moment.

We are wise to build our presence muscle so strong that nothing can budge us,

That nothing can touch us,

That nothing can move us unless we choose to.

So the invitation is for us to develop,

Cultivate,

Allow to expand the practice of coming back to the nowness of this moment,

However we do it,

Be it the breath or some other tool that we have.

And the questions,

Beautiful question to remind us to come back is to ask,

What is now?

What is here now?

That question,

Whenever we remind ourselves,

Whenever we remember to ask that question,

We are pulled out of time.

So working that question into our daily practice is a beautiful tool to move us out of the linearity of time into the eternal moment,

Into the nowness of this moment.

Thank you so so much for tuning in,

For participating,

For joining me.

As always,

If this resonated with you,

You're more than welcome to share this with anyone else that you feel might benefit from hearing this.

Until we meet again,

I absolutely bless,

Bless,

Bless our days,

And I absolutely bless,

Bless,

Bless our ways,

In the full knowing that all is well,

In the full knowing that something wonderful is happening,

That everything is working for our highest good.

With much love,

Many blessings,

Namaste.

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