Practice at least one mind - body technique to cultivate calmness, relaxation and
being present in the moment of now.
Not exact matches
For me, it
's important to
be present in the
moment while I
'm trying to focus on a particular task and sometimes that means blocking out all
of the other noise for a bit.»
The Thrive Global founder has since become an outspoken ambassador
of self - care and
being present in the
moment, two behaviors that directly relate to good parenting.
The other day at a trade show I learned the life stories
of at least three people just by
being genuinely interested and
present in the
moment.
But if leaders could learn to live
in the
present moment, to still their mind so the truth
of the situation could sink
in, they
are likely to make better decisions.
Living
in our heads stops us from recognizing that life
is merely a stream
of present moments.
He advised, «The
present moment is the only thing you can control, so staying
in the
moment should
be where you spend the majority
of your time.»
With
present programming knowledge and novelty
of the blockchain, writing solid and comprehensive smart contracts can sometimes
be difficult
in practice and at the
moment are only really useful for simple contracts (however, it
's progressing rapidly).
Brexit bites into U.K. construction Britain
's construction industry
is «making the best
of an uncertain
moment» as building shows signs
of slowing
in London, but grows elsewhereIt
's not clear how the U.K.
's trade arrangements will look at the end
of the Brexit process — and the haze
presents a challenge to the country
's construction sector.
The point
of power
is always
in the
present moment.
In short, we know that the future will
be made up
of a series
of present moments.
Unless we observe a rather swift improvement
in market internals and a further, material easing
in credit spreads — neither which would relieve the
present overvaluation
of the market, but both which would defer our immediate concerns about downside risk — the
present moment likely represents the best opportunity to reduce exposure to stock market risk that investors
are likely to encounter
in the coming 8 years.
Our brains
are so hardwired to help us stay alive
in the
present, that we
are actually unable to see ourselves as any older than we
are in the
present moment (without the help
of computer software).
Awareness
of death gives to life immediacy and depth, and makes life so intense that its totality
is summed up
in the
present moment.
How about your experience
of holding your grandchild — do you need anyone to tell you what to think, or don't you enjoy just
being present in the
moment?
You must have often wondered why the Enemy does not make more use
of His power to
be sensibly
present to human souls
in any degree He chooses and at any
moment.
Let us read history, our history, as a living account
of what we once
were, with the double - edged consciousness that all
of this has gone forever and that,
in spite
of everything, that period
of youth and every
moment of our lives remain mysteriously
present at the wellsprings
of our soul
in a kind
of delectable eternity.»
The game show The
Moment of Truth
presents itself as a fight for the truth, but it
is actually deadly to the truth, exposing hidden thoughts and urges
in a way that strangles truthfulness.
An impressive number
of testimonies suggest that
in some instances
of extreme danger the totality or quasi-totality
of our past
is glimpsed «at once, more accurately,
in a
present moment which
is contemporary with a very short interval
of public time.
This morning my heart
's all
in that there
's living
present power
in Jesus» blood to cleanse me this
moment and this day... not just as a point
of doctrine but as reality from God that frees.
There
is one further point to
be made, however, to bring these remarks into relation with the deepest insights
of the Christian tradition
in its best
moments, and into relation with the convictions
of the wisest men and women — past and
present,
in our own family,
of our own acquaintance or within our own awareness and observation.
The only answer which
is plausible can
be given by the biological theory
of knowledge:
in the same way as our perception carves Out
of the whole physical reality only that zone which has practical importance for our organism, only those recollections which
are relevant to our
present situation
are transmitted into our
present moment.
This
is shown simply
in the commitment to two priorities: (1) The priority
of the rights and freedoms
of the individual over those
of the community and (2) The priority
of the
present experience
of the individual
in the
moment over the past and over traditions.
To
be present among [the least
of these]
is to encounter what the Celtic saints called «thin spaces,» places or
moments in time
in which the veil separating heaven and earth, the spiritual and the material, becomes almost transparent.
He has the requisite condition
in himself, and the bringing forth or birth
is merely a manifestation
of what
was already
present; whence here again,
in this begetting, the
moment vanishes instantly
in the eternal consciousness
of Recollection.
In the
present moment of experience, there
is no knowledge
of the cogito, because awareness
of the cogito
is strictly prereflective and nonthetic.
The
moment in which the final note
is heard
is one
in which the phrase as a whole attains a unity and completeness that
was not
present in any
of the antecedent
moments or
in the final note taken by itself.
Rather, it
is a proclamation that,
in the happening
of Jesus the Christ, God discloses himself as the ever -
present giver
of our lives, and, therefore, we
are free to live our lives as they
are given
moment by
moment.
In chapters like «The Meaning
of Sex,» «Becoming a Singular Sensation,» «The Gift
of the
Present Moment,» «Winning the Spiritual Battle,» and «Craving Heaven,» Eden describes God's design for human sexuality, why sex
is reserved for marriage, the importance
of modesty, how singles struggling with loneliness and unrequited love can empower themselves through prayer and the sacraments, and why shared values with one's spouse
are so vital for a successful marriage.
In its fundamental freedom — true not just for the becoming
of each
moment of the human consciousness but for all
of creation — everything that emerges into a new
present is not bound either by its past (fatalism) or by God (determinism).
This union
of history and the
moment involves a tension and a contradiction, for although redemption takes place at every
moment, there
is no definite
moment in the
present or the future
in which the redemption
of the world could
be pronounced as having taken place once for all.
As we found
in the preceding chapter, and
in the
present one too, this process has a strong Christological foundation and it
was the genius
of Bonhoeffer that he tackled the problem
of religion without for a
moment losing sight
of Christ.
Such repentance includes the
moment of remorse, but it
is primarily change
of direction and purification
of the transmitted tradition so as to cease to commit those crimes
in the
present and try to insure that they will not
be renewed
in the future.
Not only
am I free as to how I prehend the past,
in my
present moment of becoming I
am also responding to the possibilities
of the future.
... What
is the most tense part — put your hand on that and let go
of the tension...
Be aware
of all your feelings
in the
present moment... Breathe deeply a few times... Now picture the space
of your consciousness as a room.
The
present moment in the long flow
of experience
is what it
is largely by its inclusion
in itself
of those past
moments.
But their function
is not simply to carry us outside ourselves, and
in that act to devalue or empty the
present moment and our common life
of intrinsic power and mystery, but to revitalize and revalue the Here and the Now.
In fact it is more likely that evolution can continue indefinitely (within the parameters established by the laws of thermodynamics), and for all we know, the present moment may still be very early in the full unfolding of the univers
In fact it
is more likely that evolution can continue indefinitely (within the parameters established by the laws
of thermodynamics), and for all we know, the
present moment may still
be very early
in the full unfolding of the univers
in the full unfolding
of the universe.
In my present moment of becoming, I can not help but prehend the past; it shapes who I am (becoming) in the presen
In my
present moment of becoming, I can not help but prehend the past; it shapes who I
am (becoming)
in the presen
in the
present.
Despite the assertion that God has favored Christians living
in this
present moment of history with the key to decode the prophetic ciphers, millennialists
are unable to agree on how to read the message.
And that receding
moment, once so vividly
present and still so apparently alive (
in part because
of radio),
is just like this
moment, this Saturday afternoon, with its new show, coming to us live from Minnesota, where people right now
are watching the red light
in the World Theater
in downtown St. Paul, waiting for the
moment when it all begins again.
And he takes the measure
of his days best when
be uses a significant turning point simply as an occasion to rethink now
in the
present the significance
of what has always
been true: That we live every
moment of life equidistant from eternity.
There will
be moments when we
are so surrendered to God that God can
be incarnationally
present in and through us; but these
are special
moments of infused Grace and
are not sustainable, given the
present evolutionary unfolding
of the Mystery
of Redemption.
For once permanence
is abstracted from flux and lifted to dominance
in awareness, the complexity
of the
present moment is simplified and its intensity diluted just as surely as by elevating the flux
of passing values to dominant emphasis, disjoined from that which abides.
It calls for us to
present ourselves at each
moment to God as we
are, with as much knowledge
of ourselves as we can muster, with all our desires and intentions exposed, and
in so doing ask for guidance, help, and the transfiguration
of our lives.
It would seem that if there
is a sensori - motor
present then if memory ceased we would
be left
in Russell's «solipsism -
of - the -
moment», but not
in instantaneity.4 But a graver difficulty arises with this passage, for it seems that we have here a surreptitious renewal
of the mathematical notion
of time.
In the darkness of the present day, that moment seems invisibly to be in preparation, however remote it still may be, when their reintegration, as St. Thomas puts it, will «call back to life the Gentiles, that is to say the lukewarm faithful, when «on account of the progress of iniquity, the charity of a great number shall have waxed cold» (Matthew I4: I2).&raqu
In the darkness
of the
present day, that
moment seems invisibly to
be in preparation, however remote it still may be, when their reintegration, as St. Thomas puts it, will «call back to life the Gentiles, that is to say the lukewarm faithful, when «on account of the progress of iniquity, the charity of a great number shall have waxed cold» (Matthew I4: I2).&raqu
in preparation, however remote it still may
be, when their reintegration, as St. Thomas puts it, will «call back to life the Gentiles, that
is to say the lukewarm faithful, when «on account
of the progress
of iniquity, the charity
of a great number shall have waxed cold» (Matthew I4: I2).»
The reason for the
present Republican surge
is that this isn't change that most Americans believe
in, although it
is change they voted for (at least if any
of them gave a
moment's thought to the more or less inevitable policy consequences
of their votes for Obama and a Democratic Congress).
Thus
in one
moment the soul would
be constituted by the
present reception
of stimuli from the ear drums, while inheriting from a past occasion that
was stimulated from the big toe.
But what thus forces itself on us
in extreme
moments is actually
present at every
moment, though we seldom notice it or, indeed, have need
of noticing it.