I think it's imortant to have clear intentions for the future, what you would like to co-create in your life. These intentions can be called hopes or aspirations.
The important thing is to have an aspiration or hope that then leads you into the present moment not in to the future. For example, I hope I'll have less stress in the future. If I keep hoping for something in the future it takes my energy away from the present moment.
Hoping my stress will be better in the future then becomes an obstacle to itself eventually, because of its nature it’s in the future you are in the present therefore you can’t realise it.
If however you allow your aspiration to lead you into the present then something else happens. What does that mean? It means to set your goal or aspiration for the future then bring it back into the present moment. So I hope for less stress in the future, becomes what would it feel like to have less stress now?
It is then possible to approach this from two directions. First, to imagine how it would feel to realise the future event happening now. How would I feel, be within myself?
Second is to acknowledge and be with the thoughts and feelings that are present right now. Can I name my present condition and hold or even embrace it without trying to 'fix' or change it somehow?
On one level there is an acceptance of what is and on another a hope for something else. The hope for something else dissolves slowly into the acceptance of the present as both of theses events are practiced together. The future hope is disolved into the present moment.
This dissolving releases great energy particularly if you had put a lot of trapped energy into the future aspiration. So like fishing you catch the future hope and reel that energy back into yourself.
That energy is now available to you and provides the impetus for you to enter the deeper levels of your own psyche and experience the deep peace, acceptance and joy that exists there as well as creating the circumstances for less stress in the present and therefore the future also!
This can also be looked at from a prayer point of view. In my aspiration I ask my (Higher Power, God, Spiritual Guide) to help me to be less stressed. I then hand over (surrender) the process to my Higher Power and trust that situations are been created in the present moment to allow me to be less stressed. My prayer then changes from an aspirational one to one of Faith and Gratitude. "Thank you God for giving me this anger to feel, as I trust it is the doorway you have provided to help me be less stressed, and I trust you are helping me to just BE WITH it and allow it to bring me closer to mySelf and You."
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I'm not sure I agree with the sequence of steps when bringing a hope into the present. By asking 'How would I be now if this situation were the way I hope it to be?' the actual feelings present NOW are changed because they are different to what is being experienced or is presenting now because you are energised by the hope; e.g. you are feeling less stressed! So surely the sequence should be first to accept 'what is there now' and second to ask how I would be if the hoped for state were present now?
Still not sure about this; yet I am doing it and it seems to be changing something. I guess the logistics or sequencing is really not that important. Probably looking to the qualities of the 'hoped for state' first and bringing the in is a more hopeful way to go. Then the 'present state' is changed by holding both together. Right NOW there is hope. Yes, I do think this is the way to go as starting with the 'present state' can lead to not having hope.
Peace
Yup, it may be slow... but ... something good seems to be happening. Those qualities in us which we associate with the fulfilment of a desire can be tapped into NOW - which maybe is the whole point of desire in the first place.
Blessings.
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