Psychologist George Kelly observed that much of human behavior is motivated by trying to make the future more predictable.
This tendency seems to stem from basic survival concerns (if you know where your next meal is coming from, you'll feel more safe). However, as we move beyond "life as mere survival," concerns about the future can create great limitations in one's ability to enjoy life.
I've realized recently how much of our disappointment comes from our reality not matching our "past expectations of the future." In other words, it is common to imagine what next week, next month, or next year will look like...and, when we reach those points in time, we will feel upset (even if it is unconscious) when our present doesn't live up to what we had hoped for.
There are contemporary spiritual approaches that put a great deal of emphasis upon "envisioning your future" as you would like it to be. Personally, these approaches don't work for me. They take me a way from the now, and any desire for things to be different comes from the limitations of my mind. In my experience, the universe always has much better things in store for me than I can come up with for myself. Surrender is the key. I don't believe we can walk a congruent path when we are littering our thoughts with preferences of how things should be.
Things are as they are. If we're guided in the moment to change something, then we can change it. Surrendering to guidance and the flow of life doesn't mean not taking action. It simply means not getting ahead of ourselves with assumptions of how situations in the future would make us happier than we are now. Living in the future takes us away from the present, which is the only place that truly exists.
So instead of creating a cloud of hopes in front of you, keep the air clear. Live in this moment and let go of attachments about what the next chapter will be about. It doesn't really matter. The universe never gives us any situation that we can't handle, so we don't have to anticipate potential pitfalls, nor must we delude ourselves into believing that things must be different in our life situation before we can be content.
Contentment is right here, right now, if we want it. All we have to do is decide to be at peace with what is. For a peaceful mind, we must let go of all the advertising we've absorbed about acquisition leading to improvement, and replacing it with the practices of acceptance and living in the present.
Peace,
Chris
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This tendency seems to stem from basic survival concerns (if you know where your next meal is coming from, you'll feel more safe). However, as we move beyond "life as mere survival," concerns about the future can create great limitations in one's ability to enjoy life.
I've realized recently how much of our disappointment comes from our reality not matching our "past expectations of the future." In other words, it is common to imagine what next week, next month, or next year will look like...and, when we reach those points in time, we will feel upset (even if it is unconscious) when our present doesn't live up to what we had hoped for.
There are contemporary spiritual approaches that put a great deal of emphasis upon "envisioning your future" as you would like it to be. Personally, these approaches don't work for me. They take me a way from the now, and any desire for things to be different comes from the limitations of my mind. In my experience, the universe always has much better things in store for me than I can come up with for myself. Surrender is the key. I don't believe we can walk a congruent path when we are littering our thoughts with preferences of how things should be.
Things are as they are. If we're guided in the moment to change something, then we can change it. Surrendering to guidance and the flow of life doesn't mean not taking action. It simply means not getting ahead of ourselves with assumptions of how situations in the future would make us happier than we are now. Living in the future takes us away from the present, which is the only place that truly exists.
So instead of creating a cloud of hopes in front of you, keep the air clear. Live in this moment and let go of attachments about what the next chapter will be about. It doesn't really matter. The universe never gives us any situation that we can't handle, so we don't have to anticipate potential pitfalls, nor must we delude ourselves into believing that things must be different in our life situation before we can be content.
Contentment is right here, right now, if we want it. All we have to do is decide to be at peace with what is. For a peaceful mind, we must let go of all the advertising we've absorbed about acquisition leading to improvement, and replacing it with the practices of acceptance and living in the present.
Peace,
Chris
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