We want to really strengthen and grow our capacity to Be Here which is very powerful.

This capacity is a function of our Nervous System and Brain. So often there is a gap between our Desire for Truth and to actually Being Here. We want Awakening and Freedom but there is a gap between our desire and our actual ability to Be Present to what arises. In your daily life, you know what it looks like when everything seems to be going well then suddenly and seemingly out of nowhere the tendencies of the past arise and we experience so much re-activity and thoughts, feelings, sensations and emotions. Then, our attention is taken away and not just by the arising of the tendencies but also from the reactions. Out of habit we might want to control and suppress this in some way — get rid of, make it different and this just adds to the distress of the moment and makes it worse and not better. There is a fine line between engaging and being lost in the reactivity and between actual ability to be Present to what is. We need to understand the NS and Brain and what works and what does not. We have to slow down, come into our experience and come to notice the sensations that are present in our body and a way to communicate directly with our NS and brain. This will create a very powerful opportunity for a moment of Freedom and to be actually Present to What is. Because in that moment of Freedom, you can see that what has arisen is just a thought, a feeling, a sensation, and an emotion and that it can pass through and we can be Present to it. It can arise and subside and we don’t have to be affected by it. Awakening means full trust and full reliance on our True Nature and we cannot do this when our attention is pulled into the Tendencies of the Past. I refer to this also as the Missing Link for Living in the World because moment by moment by moment in your life, the tendencies of the Past arise. And we are all continuously affected by our World and what is happening in the world around us.