The practice of presence

Feel your hands from within. Do not look at them—feel them.

Can you feel a subtle aliveness there? A tingling, a warmth, an energy?

Now extend that feeling to your whole body. Feel the entire inner energy field of your body.

This is your doorway out of time. This is the Now.

Thoughts may come. Notice them, but do not follow them. Return to the feeling of aliveness in your body.

You are not your thoughts. You are the awareness in which thoughts appear.

Stay with the felt sense of Being. Let it anchor you in the present moment.

The past and future are mental constructions. Only the Now is real.