How do I get into the now? Simple: my body is here and now. So when I enter my body I enter it now. More difficult is not.
- Feeling Breath
- Experiencing sensations through senses.
- Keeping body still, including eyes
- Hear what you hear including “white noise.
- Listening to music
- Feeling where your body is touching something.
- Smelling, perfumes, etc.
- Dancing and moving. Movement is in the now. Especially spontaneous movement. So not to a form.
- Singing together.
- Being touched as in massage
- Havening (self-embracing)
- Body scan
- Standing on 1 leg, balancing with body
- Push hands together and feel which one pushes the hardest
In the NOW, there is no to little thinking. Would that mean it is now a safe place? Could be. Because if it is not safe then my body instinctively reacts to create safety. In the NOW. I just observe what happens. Like I instinctively snatch a child away from a touching car. There is no thinking involved. Real NOW knows no thoughts. So no thought is NOW. That means there is actually no past and future. No clock indicating where I am. Rather, it is the absence of a safety creating tool, thinking. So safe is NOW. Then there is no movement.
Safe is a relative term. If the system becomes unbalanced, it will move and depending on the degree or likelihood of becoming unbalanced, the reaction will be more or less severe. If I need food or drink there will be a different reaction than if I am attacked by a wild bear. Or when I haven’t eaten for weeks because the harvest failed.
