Being Present For Your Future Joy

How to Be More Present For Your Future

Present for the Medium

About once a week I write for Medium. I wouldn’t say that I am a Medium-centric human. However, I do generally order a medium size drink or a medium size bucket of chicken even though I am definitely not wearing a Medium sized shirt, ugh. But the pull to learn and connect with new people and new ideas is appealing to the degree of extra large. I think that's true with Linkedin, where Being Present is likely to help your Future.

The Art of Focus

Writing is certainly the art of focus, within an environment where practically everyone now has some degree of ADHD, which makes us focus on what is facing us in the moment, evoking judgmental replays of our past and a somewhat distorted understanding of our future, which would be much more magnetic by being present for our future, now.

Not “Be Here Now” but Being Present For Your Future

Being present for your future begins purely with mindfulness, which I humbly define as the non-judgmental acceptance of the omni-present. The welcoming and elevated appreciation for what currently is, even when the moment is highly challenging or worrisome.?

Elevating Your Sense of Perception

We can enter a state of elevated perception by first activating our senses - all of them. The memories we smell, such as cinnamon and nutmeg from an auntie’s bakery. The excitement of what we taste, recalling fresh basil on tagliatelle in Sienna. The energy waves and emotions provided by birds chirping, some poetic wedding music, the psychedelic menagerie of your RAVE in Red Rocks, or just good vibrations that make your feet and knees swivel and jiggle without clear instructions. The tactile excitement of touch, denim bringing you to your first date or your first concert. Silk bringing you to a deep, deep sleep. Slippery orange oil bringing you to a full body massage in the middle of an orchard in Valencia, Spain….July 2004.?

Sensory immersion experiences elevate dopamine and oxytocin. Brews excitement, relaxation and euphoria.

Certainly more enhanced during a shared experience with other people. A sensory immersion is easy to do and it activates new neural pathways, new ways of thinking. More importantly, opens your mind up to possibilities…which is what you need to perceive new realities.?

Floating with Impermanence

Allow the sensory stimulation to soak into your cells, your bones, your mind and soul by meditating in a fashion that evens out the waves, moving you to a placid lake amidst impossibly blue water, where you float with a sense of impermanence and freedom of thought.

Emerge and you will become more present for your future. You will understand that every thing you are feeling and sensing and thinking at this moment is perfect, and yet is a genesis to create the malleable shape of what’s to come. Perfect song for this moment? Peter Himmelman, Impermanent Things.?

Future Scenarios

Next, we all concoct future scenarios of some sort.?Some are clear and optimistic, some are vague yet pessimistic…and everything in between. We each have a different perspective on the time frame that represents “future”.…one year, three years, twenty or fifty? All versions are welcome…the key is landing on your comfort zone so your presence is more able to envision your future. We know most future scenarios are uncertain, but they scenarios you envision provides the map to your destination, not the activities you will experience once you arrive.?

Exploring with Curious Clues

Once perfectly present, and having the perspective of your horizon, we identify and explore clues with curiosity. These are Curious Clues, indeed. They are factual representations of what’s actually happening in your relevant world and sphere of influence that has yet to become pervasive or ubiquitous.?

Being present enables you to notice and interpret the clues.

Embracing your presence, inviting new and more open sense of awareness is enabling you to notice more, notice early, without self-judgment about the efficacy of what you notice.?

You are noticing several clues that are filtered by your lens of relevancy, your “section of the book store”,and yet something pulls you into other section because you are now seeing patterns that begin to spell out the code of what’s emerging on the horizon.?

Perceiving New Realities

In short, stimulating your senses, opening new neural pathways and entering a state of mindfulness enables your ability to perceive new realities and fosters your courage to pursue these presently ambiguous clues…the ones you notice earlier than the ordinary.?

Being Present for Your Future is a state of mind, of enhanced awareness, of elevated curiosity, of courage to dip your toes into new and beautiful waters, perhaps an impossible shade of blue that is now more evident and possible, just for you and everyone else within your sphere of influence.?

Sometime this week, try out the recipe I have outlined for being present with the future. There are other recipes as well. Please share what Curious Clues with me, either on this platform or directly: [email protected].?

And, if you wish…then share what I have written linko-sphere and beyond. That future would be delightful future.

Namaste.?