What is your age?

I don't know who needs to hear this today but remember, we are NOT the years that we have lived, we ARE the years that we still have left to live, and noone knows how many that is. The past is in the past, and the future we do not know if it will come, the only thing we truly have is the present moment. To have, means to possess. I had, represents an experience already lived. If we are serious about this, both are located in the past. To stay present and fully alive, we need to release the load of accumulated baggage that we are carrying. Curious that everyone asks how old you are, referring to a past that is already gone. With something so basic we start programming ourselves and others to remain in the past, hold on to it, we make it become the present, limiting ourselves and others, shaming change and creating expectations that limit even more our true potential, continuing in the same old way of thinking and believing, so we also keep repeating the same actions over and over. We carry the past on our shoulders and that is what makes the unknown so scary. The future can be challenging when we know whatever else is ahead, we still have to carry all that baggage and whatever else we accumulate on the way, its heavy. The present moment is exciting, kind of an adventure, your are living it. What if we decide to let go of everything and just enjoy and learn from whatever we find along the way without holding on to anything?. We cling to experiences, happy or not because it helps us create a personality that makes us feel we are a little more prepared to face the unknown. It gives us a false sense of security, something to "fall" on or "blame" when things dont go our way. But what we are really doing is pre-living something that has not yet pass, we make it part of our past even though is still in the future. We are limiting our possibilities and that of others for growth, change, prosperity, abundance, etc. Sabotaging our own journey. We do not see that this only makes the past stretch without end, completly erasing the present and shortening even more the future. Our lived experiences are meant to contribute to Source Consciousness, when it is said that we need to learn from the past, many get confused as to what am I supposed to be learning. So we take our experience with our ex that cheated and we think our hidden lesson is that we need to learn not to be so naive, to not trust or to trust less, to hold off our emotions for someone with "value", that we are better alone. Are we seriously going to believe this are the lessons we came here to experience and learn? We need to love ourselves more than this. We are suppose to be learning about us, so we can actually contribute something to the expansion/growth of our world, that is what we need to work on. Its not that we now need to learn that it is our "fault" that they cheated (that is ridiculous), is that we need to keep disecting that whole experience until we learn that it was no-ones "fault" and all that that entails. The desicions of other are not ours, even if they affect us. What is actually ours is their effect and the decisions we do make, and that is from what we need to learn from. Its effect, how we perceive it and why, what makes you feel like that, what can you do to heal, why you acted the waybyou did, what series of events led the way to that partucular situation and how did you contribute, what would make you do the same if the situation were reversed, what makes you believe one trauma is different from other, why do you feel like you would have done it differently, what would you do to never make someone feel the way you feel, etc. If we learn to not trust, then we cant even trust ourselves, but if we learn that we all make decisions that have consequences for ourselves and others, we understand that change is possible and that a moment in time does not define a person, we understand that it is possible to hurt someone without really intending that, that sometimes we are so full of insecurities from past traumas that we dont even know what we are doing until is too late, and we also are able to understand that to forgive is not the same as to stay or allow, we can understand and let go because we know is a deep personal issue and it is not ours to heal. We even understand that there are some traumas that need to be worked on by our own desire. There is no resentment, only understanding, compassion and true love for yourself and others. If we take our childhood experiences and make them the core of our will power, we will be living in the past forever. We need to know ourselves so we are present, with desires and needs being met at every moment because we are consciously working on them. When we are cooking, we keep adding ingredients thinking about the how it will all go together and we visualize the final result, the meal already cooked even before we have all the ingredients laid out. You are excited about the meal, and do your best in the moment to make it taste and look good, because you know that is the moment you actually have to make it good. Learn from children and you will understand the complexity of life. What do children do? Live in the moment and never stop asking why!!! When someone ask your age, remember no-one really knows, all you have to live is now, because the only thing we really have, is this moment. May this help someone Blessed be Alchemist Eyes / Diana Chiques Image from Google Search