What is being present actually
Been listening to Tolle for a while now (on and off) and as I understand presence, it is just a state of being clear headed and doing you thing without having any negative thoughts about it. Like when you're training martial arts, you are just flowing and not thinking at all.
Is this what it means to be present? or is it the symantics that's confusing me... I have a hard time understanding being present and how I should be able to gauge if I'm present or not and I think this is what fucks it up for me tho.
As I've read this forum, there seem to be a lot of people having very positive effects in their lives as a result of being present. So that is why I wanted to know if I am really doing this thing right and if not what are some pointers that let me know I'm doing it correctly?
Thanks!!
What you seek will seek you once you stop seeking.
Stay golden.
I don't think it is something that can be described its a feeling. For me, my breathing seems to get very slow and smooth.
What you seek will seek you once you stop seeking.Stay golden.
Fuck yah!
For me it's a sense of mental stillness. When my focus isn't on my internal mental noise it's like closing all the windows in a browser
All the computer power is now available to process and intuitively respond to whatever is happening in the environment.
However you can't understand this through your mind only through experience bc through mind it's just mental noise and thus not presence.
Another very important read on this subject is Jed Mckenna's "Spiritual Enlightenment: The Damndest Thing". Helped me get rid of a lot of the mental masturbation that comes along with this subject.
so if i go to approach, my mind is stil but fear still creeps in... is it being present? i taught myself to stop thinking when i go for the approach, and oftentimes i am fairly relaxed. but sometimes i still get freaked out as fuck, even tho no thoughts are going through my head. that usually happens when it takes longer time to approach - girls gets lost in a crowd or something.