The time is now

Being grateful and content with what is in the moment, is a beautiful, peaceful and deeply satisfying and expansive feeling.

Why is it then that so many of us don’t seem to have direct access to this - even when we consciously intend so-? And even when we do access it, most of us fail to stay there for long. Soon afterwards, a thought, a desire, an awareness of something that we think it is lacking from our life, a strong ‘negative’ emotion, will get us out of that state.

Many will say, it’s a matter of practice. The more you practice gratitude (or any other emotion for that matter) the easiest you can access it. Slowly over time this may become your default state.

But my question is…what makes it that contentment and joy are not the default state of being for humans while it seems to be a very natural state for all other animals on this planet? What is it that makes us, humans always reaching for, or focusing on, what it is we are lacking, instead of enjoying and being grateful for all that is already present within us and around us in this moment?

Some call this constant “asking for more” -more possessions, more quantity, more resources, more achievements-, thirst for progress, or evolution.

But evolution is not about having more. Evolution does not involve creating more (materialistic or superficial) needs. It’s not about relentlessly exhausting the resources of this planet and then seeking for resources elsewhere.

Evolution is about being in sync with life. Working with life, for life.

Life is here. Life is now.

Life, in both its physical and spiritual essence, is resourcefulness. It is expansive. It is filled with abundance of infinite possibilities. This is what we are if we were to strip away all of our possessions, relationships and achievements.

Evolution involves resilience, adaptation and transcendence of limitations in order to reach new levels of or restore homeostasis (i.e., harmony, stability and balance) within the natural -and even cosmic- system of life.

Life is part of us and we are part of life.

And yet, somehow, we humans have managed over years and millennia of evolution to slowly but steadily disconnect from life. We’ve disconnected from our own essence. And by doing so, we’ve become self-destructive and gridy.

Our inability to enjoy ‘what is’ instead of constantly seeking for something more - that which we don’t have- is therefore, not evolution. It is a result of our inner disconnection from the natural flow of life.

But, what causes this deep inner disconnection from life - and ourselves essentially-?

Is it our upbringing and the beliefs we adopt as truth? Is it that even when we do access the feelings of gratitude and contentment we cannot stay there for long enough to make it our default sate of being? Is it the influence of the current societal and technological paradigm? Is it our lack of knowledge of what life actually is? Is it our lack of knowledge of the concequences of that disconnection? Is it all of the above or something else?

I am not here to give you THE answer for this disconnection. Each one of us gets to look deep within and choose what is true for them.

One thing is certain, if we continue down that path of disconnection as humans.

The more we disconnect from our own essence - life- and continue moving against its natural rhythm, the more dramatically evolution will eventually hit us as a species. Worst case scenario (for us) -and best case scenario for life-: distinction of human race.

We still have a choice to reconnect with ourselves, i.e., life. The question is: Are we going to utilize that choice?

Take care,
Eleni