"Be Here Now"

Almost everyone has heard of the phrase "Be Here Now", but how many actually can, or even comprehend it? Very few indeed. It is an interesting phrase, though, and you will read it in ordinary psychology books, self-help books, as well as the expected "esoteric" teachings. Why? Because, everyone can do it to some degree and it seems to "work", that is, when you hear it (or remember it), it seems to cause a perceptible effect internally, and that effect is generally experienced as, from pleasurable to momentarily "awakening". And so it is.

But, as usual, what is missed, is how to sustain it, how to get anything long-term from it.

What is missed, is that the mere fact that people can do it to some extent, still does not produce what CAN be produced, by those who also, comprehend it. Full (or better) comprehension of the idea, must include, an understanding of these two words: Exciting, and Calming.

In people's ordinary state, they are not excited - certainly not in the way children are excited, and they are the models for this expansionary theory. What do you really remember, about your childhood - the times when you were excited! Excited to get that new bike on Christmas, excited to go to the circus, excited to ride the roller-coaster, etc. The so-called, "calmer" times, when nothing was really happening to you, you've all but forgotten.

Now, some people, in their adulthood, ARE naturally more excited about just being alive. Others, probably the larger percentage, are not - they are typically "just pretty bored" by it all.

To really push "Be Here Now" in the direction it was meant to push one, is to "Be Excited about Being Here Now" - by whatever means accessible to you. If that means utilizing, in a creative way, your intelligence, imagination, emotionality, or senses, then by all means utilize them - that's, from one view, what you have them for; to receive impressions from the world in the most complete and profound way, that only a fully-functioning human can.

Be Excited about Being Here - it works, and it works reliably.

The rest, as they say, is up to you.