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Stop Suffering & Find Joy: How To Embrace The Present Moment (Even When It’s Hard)
Your Present Moment Experience
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.” — Eckhart Tolle.
The act of surrendering to the present moment requires letting go of resisting what is taking place. As we do, the layers of judgment disappear, and we discover the perfection of the present moment. Our judgments can obscure the gift of our moment-to-moment experience. Suffering occurs if we allow our judgment to prevent us from surrendering to the moment.
Can you identify with this? Have you wanted to escape the present moment because it did not meet your expectations? How did you overcome your resistance? We will suffer if we judge this moment because it does not meet our expectations. The ego will convince us this is not what we want, and we try to resist it. But we put our happiness on hold when we adopt this way of thinking because life is trying to unfold through us.
We understand little about why things happen, and our limited perception only sees what is happening before us. We can’t possibly know whether an unwanted experience is likely to benefit us in the future. Therefore, surrendering to the present moment requires…
