Manifestation and the Importance of Living in the PresentPosted by Nick Niesen on October 26th, 2010 Do you sometimes observe your mind? In the ancient Vedic scripture Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna says to Arjuna ?One must deliver himself with the help of his mind, and not degrade himself. The mind is the friend of the conditioned soul, and his enemy as well. For him who has conquered the mind, the mind is the best of friends; but for one who has failed to do so, his mind will remain the greatest enemy.? When you start observing your mind first thing you might notice is that you don?t control it. How many times you have read something, sometimes even trying to really concentrate on the subject, but then you caught yourself thinking about something completely different at the same time? You can observe your mind, because you are not your mind, as you are not your body (This article is not about ?You are not your body? subject. I wrote more about it in ?Introduction to Manifestation?) To manifest what you want you need to control your mind. You need to concentrate, meditate and visualize often. You need to focus on the things you want to manifest. If you allow your mind to jump freely from one subject to another, like a monkey from tree to tree, it will take you long time to achieve your goals. One aspect of this is importance of living in the NOW. You can notice that we often think about the past, and when we think about the past we tend to think about ?old good times?. There are not ?old good times?. We simply forget about bad times and think about good times mostly, because it allows us to escape from the present reality and live in happy illusion. The point is that the past, happy or sad is dead. We can?t change it. It also doesn?t have any value for our manifesting purposes. Of course we can hopefully learn from our past mistakes, but that?s it, otherwise dwelling on the past is just a waste of time. If we don?t think about the past we usually think about the future. Often we are afraid of the future, sometimes we look at the future with hope. But the future is made in the present. We need to start living in the present and concentrate on the present. We need to be happy now. A good way to get in the good mood is to do some simple yogic breathing exercises, which very quickly help to achieve peace and control of the mind. Another good way is to practice gratitude for the things you have and the things you would like to have. You cannot feel unhappy when you feel grateful.
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