A Toltec’s Guide to Living in The Now Moment – Part One

Sacred Pyramids of Etzna

Living in The Now is one of the most powerful ways to enter the Flow State – a State where entering the Second Attention comes naturally. You want to live in the now, but often this state of living in the now seems elusive and difficult to maintain. So how do you live in the now? Here I want to give you the first simple, yet powerful technique.

Living in the now moment is an essential ingredient for living in the Flow. Living in the Flow has many benefits. When in the Flow State, you worry less and therefore have less stress. Living stress free has numerous physical benefits such as increased immune function and lower blood pressure, which can lead to reduced heart disease. When living in the Flow, people also enjoy numerous psychological benefits such as feeling more secure, and happy. People in the Flow have an exuberance about life that is contagious. When you are in the Flow you have a greater capacity to cope and to deal with whatever life brings you. Living in the Flow is often accompanied by a wonderful state of well being.

There is a simple technique for living in the now moment that is conducive to the Flow State. This technique helps eliminate two of the biggest causes of being out of The Flow – ruminating about the past, and worrying about the future.

Negative or painful emotions such as being sad, angry, or depressed knock you out of the Flow State. These emotions such as chronic anger, for example, are often brought on by continually regurgitating something that happened to you in the past. This isn’t to say you should never get angry. There is a place for anger. However, authentic anger, like most authentic feelings pass through you. You get angry in the moment, and then it passes. However, when you begin to recall other times you were angry, or people who made you anger, then the anger builds and you become consumed by it. When in the now moment, you are no longer focused on the past and emotional charges no longer have a hold over you.

Worrying about the future, or having fear about what will happen or won’t happen also puts you out of the Flow. Chronic anxiety is caused by the constant worrying about what will happen to you. For many, such future tripping is the norm. They are constantly playing out what if scenarios in their head, ‘what if he rejects me,’ what if she says no,’ ‘what if I don’t have enough money,’ and so on. Here too, when you return to the now moment by focusing on the now moment instead of projecting into the future, you eliminate the worry, fear and anxiety that comes from being over preoccupied with the future.

It is easy to see how constantly churning past memories or habitually projecting what you think might happen or might not happen in the future, puts you out of the Flow, leading to a pretty miserable life. Instead of focusing on the past or future, if you focus on the now moment it easy to see how you can free yourself from negative emotions and worry. So how do you remain focused on the now moment?

There are several good techniques for this. However, they all basically come down awareness and your minds ability to focus on only one thing at once. Have you ever tried to listen to someone in the room talking to you while at the same time carry on a conversation on the phone? It is very difficult. The mind has difficulty splitting its attention on more than one thing at the same time, especially for extended periods of time. This is actually a good thing when it comes to living in the now.

Living in the now is no longer a new age spiritual or metaphysical concept. Recently, psychology has looked at the benefits of the Flow State and living in the now. They have come up with effective techniques to do so. One such technique is called ‘savoring’. When you savor a delicious bite of your favorite food, done to perfection, where is your focus? Are you ruminating about something someone did to you in the past? Are you worrying about what is going to happen at tomorrow’s dentist appointment? No, your awareness is focused on that wonderful lump of food in your mouth. You are focused right here, right now, in that beautiful now moment. You have just entered the State of Flow where life is good and you are full of well being.

As you go about your day, savor. Welcome whatever is in your now moment with unhurried appreciation. Savor the fresh air, the beautiful clouds, the life force coursing through your body…there is always something you can find to savor in any given moment.

Welcome to the magnificent now moment, an essential key to living in the Flow. Watch for the next technique for living in the now coming soon.

K2’s Story – Shift Your Assemblage Point – Manifest Your Dreams

K2 (Kristopher and Kalyn)

Hello,

Kalyn and I are creating new videos in exciting places like San Miguel de Allende on manifesting, using your Source Energy and the Law of Attraction, Living Your Dreams and Living in the now moment of the Flow State.

This is the First Video in Our Manifesting Series. Nothing shifts the assemblage point and expands your perception quite like traveling.

Yesterday, while sitting in the courtyard of ‘The Library’ in the beautiful colonial town of San Miguel de Allende, sipping rich Mexican coffee with the sound of the fountain in the background, Kalyn and I decided to share our Dream with you. We are living our Dream of spending a good part of each year living in different exotic and spiritually enhancing places on this exquisite planet.

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Kalyn and I have been walking our paths and guiding others for over 10 years now. We know what works and what doesn’t. We live our lives in Authentic Abundance, where the universe always provides us what we need to fulfill our desires. We have a beautiful home in Santa Fe, New Mexico with lots of land and enough space to enable us to have some of our inner circle live with us.

After working as a business executive most my adult life, I no longer have a day job. I work more than I have ever worked, but the work is my passion. I do what I love – write, teach, take groups of people to Sacred Sites around the world. Kalyn and I just enrolled our 4 year old daughter in a wonderful bi-lingual school that is based on the heart. She comes home happy, bubbling over with joy with the wonderful new things she has learned.

I could go on forever writing about how the Universe provides for us, our wonderful relationship and all the love, abundance and spiritual connection in our lives. But, what we really want to do is to share with you how it is possible for you too to live the life of your dreams.

If you are living your dreams, we celebrate with you. If you would like to have a glimpse into our lives and how we have come to truly know that the Universe conspires to support us, you may wish to watch this video series we are making for you.

The first video is below.

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Here’s to living your dreams manifest now!

K2 (Kristopher and Kalyn)

Happiness & Well-Being – Scientists have proven what Toltecs have Known for Eons

Toltec Quetzalcoatle

Who is Happier, a Lotto winner or a Paraplegic?

According to Harvard Psychologist, Dan Gilbert who cites scientific data, after a year lotto winners and paraplegics are equally happy with their lives. Dan Gilbert is the author of the book Stumbling on Happiness.

Toltecs have known for centuries that experience follows perception, and you have control over how you perceive life (through tools such as recapitulation). You can either perceive life in a positive way or a negative way. If you perceive a problem as a challenge that will empower you and help you grow, it will do just that – benefit you. How you perceive life around you is your choice.

In the video below, Gilbert talks about how Homo Sapiens possess a Frontal lobe or Prefrontal Cortex. This amazing aparatus is an experience simulator. Human Sapiens can simulate experience before it happens. This is something that neither ancient man/woman (Homo Habilis (2,000,000 years B.C) or animals can do (ancient man/woman didn’t have a Prefrontal Cortex).

In his labs Gilbert has found that our experience simulator doesn’t always work as well as it should. He calls this phenomenon, Impact Bias. The experience simulator tends to cause us to believe that different outcomes are more different than they really are.  Things like winning or losing, gaining or losing a romantic partner, money and so on, have far less impact, intensity and duration than people expect them to have. Gilbert cites a recent study of how major life traumas affect people suggest that, if it happened over three months ago, with only a few exceptions, it has no impact whatsoever on your happiness.

Why is this so? According to Gilbert it is because happiness can be synthesized by your prefrontal lobe. The problem is that you have the ability to synthesize happiness, but you don’t use your ability. You have beliefs that stand in your way such as the belief that happiness is something to be found. You have the belief that synthetic happiness is not of the same quality as what Gilbert calls natural happiness.
Gilbert says natural happiness is when we get when we get what we wanted. Synthetic happiness is what you make when you don’t get what you wanted. Particularly in Western Society we have a strong belief that synthetic happiness is inferior to natural happiness. Gilbert says that one of the reasons for this is that our whole economic engine is built on the principle that you must get what you want to be happy, that a shopping mall full of Zen monks isn’t going to be profitable because they don’t want stuff.

Toltecs know that it is all about how you perceive things. A man compliments a woman on her hair, for example. It makes one woman happy as she perceives what he said as a compliment. Another woman, who grew up with her brothers teasing her about her hair and has an emotional charge about it, will perceive what the man says totally different than the first woman. Due to, what Toltecs call one’s inventory, in this case emotional charges from her past that are stimulated by the man’s words, she will have a negative experience. His words will make her unhappy. The experience simulator is not working properly.

In the following video, Gilbert goes on to prove scientifically that what he calls synthetic happiness is every bit as real and enduring as the kind of happiness you stumble upon when you get exactly what you are aiming for. It is a very interesting experiment.

From a Toltec or Metaphysical viewpoint, I would go beyond what Gilbert shows in his talk, that what he calls synthetic happiness is actually true happiness as it is not dependent on what happens to us in our lives. What Gilbert calls natural happiness is fleeting as when we don’t get what we want, or lose what we had, we are unhappy. It is a powerless type of happiness because we are 100% dependent on our external world.

Our ability to create happiness actually has a physical counterpart in our brain, the frontal lobe or prefrontal cortex. How well this experience simulator operates, depends upon our perception, which depends on how well we have cleaned, cleared and healed our inventory.

Knowing this, we can no longer blame people, events or situations outside of us for making us unhappy. Only we can make ourselves happy by using the faculties we all possess.

Now you know that you have everything you need to be happy inside of you. Unless you are a Homo Habilis (an ancient man/woman), and don’t have a Pre Frontal Cortex, you have everything you need to be happy right inside your brain. All you need are the tools to return it to a fine running machine. The Toltec Path provides these tools.

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