Be aware of your breathing as often as you are able, whenever you remember. Do that for one year, and it will be powerfully transformative. And it’s free. ~Eckhart Tolle
Well there’s a simple way to be present all day. But it’s not easy at all.
Presence come to different people through different mediums. Some like to incorporate the duality of sound and silence, where as some are more affected by body awareness. Others may find frequent meditations helpful. Some say what helped them best was to monitor their thoughts and feelings.
I am very sensitive to sound and have always had sensitive auditory senses.
Yet, body awareness seems to work for me the best. Even the darkest night of my soul gets a little ray of light if I try to focus on the energy field in my hand.
So here’s what I do to stay grounded in presence all day:
I incorporate all the helpful pointers of presence throughout my daily life. It goes like this-
I start the day with a 10-minute meditation.
As I go through my day, I simply keep noticing my breath. All the time. Whenever I find myself forgetful of this, I simply start again. I don’t worry about the past one hour when I forgot to notice my breathing. I don’t worry myself about how I am going to prevent this in the future. I simply notice my breath now. At this moment and don’t put much energy into thinking about it.
When I am in my bed for sleep, I practice a whole-body awareness scan as Eckhart showed in ‘The Power of Now’.
This seems to calm me down and put me in an aware, alert and happy mode.
Some days I feel euphoric and so incredibly present that I can’t help but be grateful for my existence. This kind of experience has been very rare in my life so far.
That is not to say I can consistently be intensely present. Most of the days I feel normal. I feel at ease. But not euphoric.
RaihanRiad 