The Present Moment: Uniquely Yours

"Without being present, we cannot be fully aware, and without being fully aware, we remain unconscious."

This moment you are in right now — The Present Moment — is the most important moment there is. You are alive in it, and it is uniquely yours. It is unlike any other moment you have ever had, or will have again. Yesterday has come and gone, tomorrow is not here yet. It is this present moment that matters the most, and if we value the moments of our lives, we will want to make the most of each one, and not let any moment go by without having lived it as truthfully and authentically as we can.

But what does it mean to live "Authentically"?

The definition of authentic is "genuine" and "real"; or, in other words, the combination of all our true qualities and characteristics. However, Ora Nadrich likes to describe authentic as "living our truth in the present moment." She knows, it's easy to want to hide or conceal certain aspects of ourselves we may not love, but once we start to hide our realness and who we really are, it can slip away from us to the point that we are living dishonestly to our true nature, and why would we want to do that?

Those are some of the reasons that strip us of our true nature. And before we know it, we are not living our truth in the present moment, or any of the moments of our lives if we are not aware of the traps of our mind, which are the lies we tell ourselves that keep us stuck in self-deception. Fear, insecurity, doubt.

Mindfulness, which is living in the present moment with total awareness, keeps us honest, and true to who we are. It reminds us when we slip out of the moment of authenticity, and try and hide or replace it with a false belief of ourselves, and that's what Ora explores in her work.

But it won't stop there. Ora also directs us to the home of our authenticity, which is the depths of our inner being. That is where we find our wholeness, and feel most accepting and complete. The inner-self is the dwelling place of our authenticity, but too often we stray from our authentic wholeness, and it can become fragmented or even broken. I will show you through a variety of meditations in each chapter, how to return back to, and connect with your inner-self, so you can live our authentic wholeness in all.

Valeria interviews Ora Nadrich, the founder and president of the Institute for Transformational Thinking and author of Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity, named in the 100 Best Mindfulness Books of All Time by Book Authority. She is a certified life coach and mindfulness teacher, specializing in transformational thinking, self-discovery and mentoring new coaches as they develop their careers.

To learn more about Ora Nadrich please visit her website: https://www.theiftt.org/

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