The "good old days"

are happening right Now.

When I remember that the good old days are happening right now... I wonder, how I can be even more deeply in the moment? How I can move a little slower. Say yes to more adventures. Laugh more. Love more. Forgive more.

When I'm fully having what I already have now, I experience the present moment feeling that I call nostalgia for the Now.

Now is where all the thoughts cease, where nothing is wrong, where the neurosis and rumination fade into a a soft settling, an immersed experiencing.

Trauma creates a tunnel vision and a fear inside of the present. It makes our internal vision narrower as we try to renegotiate the past, and control the future, we miss the music. Slowing down, experiencing our current somatic experience, coming back to the present moment expands our vision. It opens us up more deeply to the possibility in this universe, and it creates present moment memories that are alive, visceral, and free.

We hope to have things, or experiences: more, different, exciting, healing - we project those things onto the future hoping: when I have that I will be free. When we hold our desires so tight and let go of the present moment, we don't allow ourselves to actually have what we already have. Expanding our internal vision is holding our desires AND having what we already have so deeply. If we don't have what we already have we won't ever have what we receive later, because our brains will be so trained to look for the next thing, and the next.

Presence is the greatest manifestor of all.