The Now is sacred in a way that the mind, relatively speaking, is not. For the Now is essentially your presence, your Conscious Presence, manifesting itself as the awareness of Being. And the awareness of experiencing in this dimension… Whereas the mind is the tool of this conscious dimension.
The mind, simultaneously, is the element that bridges the sacredness of the Now – to learn from the past, and expect or projected out into the future. Which are important traits. They are part of Consciousness. But see them as “bracketing” the true sacred essence of the Now. For as much as the mind would project into the future, based on the past, it is still a projection and not the “heightened reality” of the sacred Now. So the more that you focus the mind in the future and on the past, then almost by definition you minimize the importance of the Now.
As you are discovering, there are ways to project out into the future, based on the more pure experience of the Now. They are the expressions of joy, visualizations of happiness and completeness, and harmony with the external world around you. This is a productive, aligning mechanism for navigating what you term the future. For it does not require that the Now manifest in a particular way. This is the important distinction between future of expectations, and what potentially will happen, or will happen in the Now. For the future expectations can come in conflict with the experiences of the Now. And most of the time, those future expectations are based on the assumption things must happen and evolve in a certain way. And this causes antagonisms to happen, frustration happens, when those experiences that actually occur within the Now, do not happen in the way that is expected by the mind.
Understanding, seeing yourself in the future, in the state of joy and happiness, in alignment with whatever happens, then no conflict arises with what happens as the Now. Because there is an inherent acceptance in the evolution of the future.
It does get complicated. But it is the continued expression of joy, which can be the way that you perceive and experience the Now continually. What you are doing, and that is the What you are doing, is expanding that expression into the future. And also, through your mind into the past. You are aligned with the highest good, the highest potential. Because that highest good, highest potential represents, is represented by the joy and loving nature that you are. And then all else falls into place, in an appropriate way, in an appropriate manner, that is an expression of your trajectory and your beingness as incarnated on this earth, on this plane.
Directing yourself in that way, there is no real expectation, other than you, as an individual consciousness, incarnate, can make the choice to express yourself, always, in this joy, in this happiness, in this harmonious expression of your being into the world around you – as the true creator being with which you are.
For being an expression of joy in what you would term the future, without the requirement that it happens in any particular way, “allows” it to happen.
Then, because of the law of least resistance, the Now manifests itself into what you term the future in the most harmonious way. Because harmony is the least resistance.
As you do that, you open yourself to information which helps you formulate the proper intention, direction.
Tuesday June 8, 2021 The Ancient One. # 583 excerpts Transcribed by Alan Swanson
