Living in the Now

I read an article about a woman who had a recurring dream since childhood that she was locked in a prison and couldn't find a way out.  She was having energy work done and mentioned the dream to the woman.  The energy worker asked her if she would like to get of the prison.  The dreamer replied of course she would like to get out of that prison and was told that the door wasn't locked, just open it.  The woman opened the prison door and walked out into an open field and was free.  End of that story and the dream never returned.

Living in the Now would be like opening the prison door and walking out into the world free, no longer being held in the prison of the past or worrying about the future.

I feel that is what it is like to live in the present moment now ... freedom to choose new responses to life and not be shackled to the old stories or be defined by them.  They are like last week's newspapers, no longer relevant.

I heard another pearl of wisdom from Larry Crane who does releasing work.  He said "Your worry will talk to you because it doesn't belong to anyone else, it belongs to you.  And if you've been holding on to it, guess what?  You can let it go.  Can you put the owner on the phone?  You're the owner, its your feeling, and you can let it go.

We have to become conscious that we are in charge of our thinking and beliefs and if we don't pay attention, they can be controlling us instead of the other way around.   We need to enlist our mind to serve us NOT to create havoc and fear and run our patterns unconsciously.

So much potential, so many possibilities, I am so grateful to be alive her and now and have I told you how much Google has changed my life?  Oh yeah baby, better than sliced bread.