Personal Life Coaching: The Now is All There Is

One thing is for certain (besides death and taxes), life is always now. Whatever you experience, whatever happens, whatever you feel, think, or do — it’s still now. When I write this, it is now. When you read this, it is now. When things happen tomorrow or next week, it will still be now. Nothing happens outside of the Now. So, you can’t argue with the simple truth: Now is all there is.

Unfortunately, the dysfunctional behavior of most of humanity results from ignoring this seemingly obvious truth. The current human state of consciousness does not enjoy living in the Now. In fact, it does mostly everything it can to avoid the Now altogether. Who has time? Well, the ego certainly doesn’t. People are too concerned about what’s about to happen, has happened, or something that may or may not happen, rather than what is happening now. You’ve seen them. They are the ones who are constantly on their mobile smart phones, texting away, sending little glyphs to someone who, like them, is also ignoring the Now. And all of this goes on in a desperate, exhausting, and counterproductive attempt to reduce the Now to a means to an end.

When you are not living in the Now, you tend to miss the entire essence of your life. You become stuck in a dreamworld of images, concepts, perceptions, judgments, and opinions that, summed up, define a story. And this story becomes you. All the drama and negative emotions that go along with your story are also perceived as who you are. And so you become disconnected from the joy of life that resides only in the present moment. The mind races forward and backward about this situation, that person, what he said, what she said, what might happen if he does this or she does that, and none of this can tell you who you are. And 99.99% of the time, if you did absolutely nothing, all your perceived “problems” would completely dissolve if you could just learn to be still, and pay attention to what is happening right now.

Most people, when asked, “How may problems do you have right now?” will respond with a rant describing all their problems. Little do they realize, however, that very few problems ever exist in the Now. Why? Because problems are convoluted and have lots of stuff attached to them. They have stories behind them. If you’ve ever had to listen to someone tell you about their problems, it’s never a short story. It’s always “complicated.” The truth is, unless you’re being attacked by a wild Boar in the forest, or an alligator in the swamp, then you too, have no problems right now. None. And if you’ve convinced yourself that you do, then your consciousness is rooted in the egoic mind, which means you’re living in the past and future — neither of which exist.

So, instead of avoiding the Now, begin inviting presence into your life a little more each day. When you do, you will  stop struggling to reach a point in the future where there is greater security, aliveness, abundance, love, or joy, and will become aware that those things make up the essence of who you already are.

Jason Lincoln Jeffers is a spiritual counselor and personal life coach. His online life coaching program incorporates pain-body counseling, wellness coaching, law of attraction coaching, relationship coaching, and astrology readings. As a result, his spiritual counseling sessions will enlighten, inspire, and empower you to realize your physical, mental, and spiritual potential.