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how am I releasing the magic of the moment… ?

Imagine each moment as a package of perception containing a magic gift. It's the present of the present. We can choose to throw this gift on the pile marked ‘past’ or we can store it for later on the pile marked ‘future’. Yet if we access the power of presence, we can tear off the wrapping paper and grasp the gift immediately.

Like all the best presents, the gift of the moment is very simple. It is appreciation. We begin to appreciate the beauty around us, the beauty of our friends and colleagues. And finally, if we are very lucky, we might even begin to appreciate ourselves.

This question therefore asks us first to monitor the extent to which we are experiencing the magic of the moment. We cannot release something that we do not know is there! Secondly, it challenges us to use this appreciation of the moment to release the creative potential that exists in the space between us and all things. This space is full of potential – potential for new and deeper relationships, potential for new learning and insights, and potential for new ideas and pathways to the future.

The question also heightens our awareness of the habits and addictions that cheat us of this magic by distracting us and draining us of the energy that presence requires.

Best of all, this question opens us to the magic of the now and here.