The world tells you to plan, to strategise, and to initiate.
The world tells you to divide your time into quarters, days, hours, minutes.
The world tells you to structure and make sense of everything.
The world tells you to be future forward. Look ahead. Plan ahead. Be ahead.
What if the truth is that the future is here now?
Your operation point should always be to look back – understand that your visual perception and cues are merely the past. Past echoes, past beliefs, past thoughts. They don't inherently exist. The books say be in the present moment, but what good does it do to be in the present moment when you're confronted with what appears to be a 'solid reality' that you can't escape from? What good does grounding breath do if after the final exhale, you turn back into stone again?
The answer lies in operating from future-now.
One baseline truth we have to digest is that we literally experience what we first imagine, feel, thought of, etc. Nothing is ever random. No interaction is random. There's no such thing as coincidences. If you internally perpetuate negative talk, constant fears, that's all your mind and body is ever focused on – pulling you towards more of those situations, while more of those situations pull toward you. You're a transmission tower constantly sending out signals to life around you, and life responds accordingly. This is why unless a shift is made, or a change is realised, cycles continue repeating again and again and again. The only way out is up.
Placing yourself as the 'from' point of future now - that is - your stability is the reference point from how you operate, and you see your current external environment as something that's truly passing away, allows you to practise neutrality. You no longer become swept away by temporary moments; and the more you do that, the more you stay put, the momentum that once was there to scare you dies. It will then swing in the opposite direction - an up-spiral. And the more you operate from that, the more the ideal cycle comes through and carries you through different situations for you to respond to, and life creates, you create, and life responds – pretty much to infinity.
Does this mean being passive? Does it mean giving up on ideas and ambitions? Does this mean never taking the first move to ever initiate? How does action work?
Think of it as a live tennis game. Except that your life/circumstances isn't against you, but rather feedback. Take the feedback and don't ruminate and stay there. The goal of the game is to move UP. Not stagnate.
Future-now means going back to your actual instincts, beyond the noise and expectations and thoughts. Beyond acting from fear and scarcity. Your mind can think many things, but you can't lie to how your body feels and responds to stimuli. Expansion or contraction. Yes or no. Simplicity. The mind wants to consume everything, try to understand more, attempt to think that there is some kind of answer and idea. But every time you think from the mind, every time you respond from cognition, you're falling into fear. You're only seeing from limited information. Your mind always wants to keep you safe. In survival. And every time you take that step from that point – that idea of 'safety' of being 'practical' - you're inadvertently telling yourself that there's a lack of trust. There's no trust in anything for you, that you need more time, more ideas... no.
Drop deeper into your body, your gut, your instincts... Whatever you want to label it as. There'e already a calling deep inside.
When a thought comes to act, drop deeper into your body. Is it out of fear or inspiration? Yes or no?
The answer should never be another thought. It should be a sensation.
