How To Be Present

DRICHAK ADIZES takes us into his experience of feeling to be present, and the way it has changed his life.

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It has been a common message in New Age thinking: be present, stop only thinking about the past or the future. Be present.

This made sense to me in light of my own experiences. While I was developing my methodology and testing them with my clients around the world, my mind was 100% occupied thinking about the future (thinking of ways to improve the methodology for the clients) or the past (diagnosing what went wrong and why).

My sons used to complain to me that I was not with them. I used to get upset. How can that be? I had flown from all over the world to be with them. But they were right. My body was there but not my presence, my mind, my spirit.

When my children start reminiscing about something that happened between us and ask me if I remember it, I go blank. It is not that I am struggling with Alzheimer’s disease. It is that I was not there. My mind was with a client or with a theory problem I was struggling with. I was where my mind was and my mind was not there.