Nowness

Nowness is the powerful practice of being in the moment. It seems that there is no good word to define the feeling we all reported having that signals a change, an evolution or a reinvention that doesn’t sound like a cliche or implies that where we are at in life needs to be dramatically changed. You are given only one moment at a time – and you are wasting that moment in planning or worrying about the future; but the future never comes. What comes is always here, now: it is a series of nows – one now, another now – you are always living in the now.

SO WHAT IS THE PRACTICE OF NOWNESS????

What’s Nowness? The term implies satisfaction with who we are at our core, that this state is normal and a precursor to a new burst of creative self-expression. It is a state of perpetual openness to whatever may come before you, whenever and however it does.

The Practice Of Nowness has been created through an acute awareness of one’s thoughts, feelings, and emotions. In our modern day society, being present doesn’t always come easily.

STATE OF NOWNESS IS A CURIOSITY OR WONDER :

The State Of Nowness is something that transcends social identity and the categories we are put in by society. Its curiosity and wonder. Those younger because of the speed of technology may have shorter periods of Nowness. The over-stimulation and distraction that come from technology, social media, work, family life, social engagements, and the never-ending “to-do” lists regularly take us out of the now and into a memory from the past or a fear about the future.

REALITY OF NOWNESS :

There are different tools. But so do we. So we think that the way forward is to collaborate and begin a conversation about the tools that exist, and those we want to create, when we are dreaming and evolving in our times of Nowness. Tools that can help us be the best version of the identities we already are. Cultivating the power of being present comes from creating the space to observe one’s mind and one’s self. This skill of observation allows us to look at our own lives and the lives of others without attaching judgment or analysis. Using this awareness, we become mindfully attuned to all that is around us through our five senses (smell, touch, taste, sight, and sound) as well as our physical sensations.

LIVNG IN NOWNESS IS THE REAL ESSENCE OF LIFE :

These are the signs of our bodies that we often tend to ignore. In a society that tells us that happiness is on the other side of success and that fulfilment is somewhere across a distant horizon, it’s no wonder that many of us have a hard time staying out of our mind and in the present moment. The mind-set that so many of us adopt is one of always staying busy — always chasing, always pursuing, always onto the next thing.

For example, we wake up in the morning and think about going back to bed, we shower and think about breakfast, we eat breakfast and think about our work day ahead, we go to work and think about coming home, we arrive home and think about all of the work we left behind... It’s exhausting. And what’s most frustrating is that many of us don’t even realize we’re doing it until most of the day is already done, if ever. It’s important to remember that the states of past and future exist in our mind and that the only state that we can ever truly savor is the present moment. This moment that we’re in right now.

Years... Months... Weeks... Days... Hours... Minutes... Seconds…. These all boil down to bigger and smaller collections of moments. The present moment is where we should be focusing all of our present energy. Because if we’re living a good moment, the days will take care of themselves; if we’re living a good day, the months will take care of themselves; if we’re living a good month, the years will take care of themselves. It’s easy to let your minutes, hours, and days stroll by when the months, years, and decades seem so far away.

NOWNESS is a movement for creative excellence in storytelling celebrating the extraordinary of every day. So we give it a nod for all the inspiration that it gives us.

WHAT’S ONE MINUTE IN COMPARISON TO THE LENGTH OF A YEAR ?

It feels tiny and therefore insignificant. But the truth of the matter is, there are no insignificant minutes – or even seconds – of a person’s life. Every moment counts; every moment matters. So, how do we make the most of our moments?

HOW TO PRACTICE THE NOWNESS?

To start, we have to actually be present in the moments that are given to us. If we’re not mentally present, how can our moments be fully enjoyed? And interestingly enough, one of the best ways to become more mentally present is to drop the mind. We have to train ourselves to stop thinking about the past and the future and learn how to just be. This is not to say that we shouldn’t plan ahead, set goals, prioritize, or reflect — these are crucial strategies for managing time effectively and investing our moments in ways that make the most sense for us.

But what we should do however, is to designate blocked out time for the above mentioned strategies and spend all of our other moments opening our senses to the wonders of the world around us. If you drop the mind and practice the Nowness, suddenly you become happy for no reason at all. Then happiness is just natural, just as you breathe. For breathing, you do not even need to be aware; you simply go on breathing. Conscious, unconscious, awake, asleep — you go on breathing. Happiness is exactly like that.

Everything is interconnected, and our individual lives exert a profound and potentially unlimited influence. The more we believe that our actions do make a difference, the greater difference we find we can make.