In my experience, the present moment has a distinct feel, an immersive novelty that fully engages me.
There’s no checklists or justifications that guarantee I’ll perceive it. I can only know it by intuition, as well as an inarticulable sensation of absolute calibration. When I’m truly aligned with it, it auto-corrects my checklists while simplifying my justifications into relevant observations that leave as needed and don’t wear out their welcome. It’s primarily an allowance to let things be, and to flow into the next moment of space-time perception.
The thing is, that’s going to happen anyway. My life is just easier when I drop my internal resistance to its immediate unfolding.
Dirty Sci-Fi Buddha 
This is really beautifully and perfectly described. It puts me in mind of Watts saying the ego feels like tension right between the eyebrows. And you’re right, it’s far more about dropping the resistance to what is and allowing the flow. Much easier to understand then just the present.
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Right, to not resist the great flip-flop, this did remind me of Allen 🙂
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In the long term, it might be the most impactful use of free will we can exercise. Not that I can prove it, but it’s been a nagging hunch for years in my brain
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Love your comment. Alon Watts is great.
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Well said! I also feel that present moment is the point of focus, of meaning, of change and power, where all other moments are projected from.
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I’m a big fan of this! I think so as well.
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“My life is just easier when I drop my internal resistance to its immediate unfolding. ” –Amen to that! Whether “its” refers to your life or to the present moment, the two terms are really referring to the same thing: your life is your present moment.
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Yes, well said!
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Well said 👍
Acceptance relaxes the inner dialogue and makes space for new ideas
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Spot on! I love the way you phrased those moments of flow and presence: “an inarticulable sensation of absolute calibration”.
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Thanks!
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Seems to take quite a bit of time to learn that – judging by my experience, that is!
Gwen.
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Easy to forget, also easy to unexpectedly stumble into!
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“an inarticulable sensation of absolute calibration” – I love that, and the whole paragraph. It gets me wondering what that feels like somatically. Is it that molecules-are-alive type feeling of total connection, or is it that knowing-yet-detached series of actions performed in flow, which cause neither joyful excitement (no matter how subtle) nor (eventual) suffering.
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For me, it’s usually preceded by a relaxation in my head muscles, like invisible weights are dropping away!
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Sounds like mindfulness and reminds me of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.
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