Oneness

Oneness
To heal the past in you, you have to replace it with
presence. We cannot heal our past by thinking about the
present with a mind conditioned by the past. As long as we
think with our conditioned mind, we will just be recreating
the past again and again.
We must replace our conditioned thoughts with our
present awareness. We must practice being aware of the
thoughts and actions that we think out of habit, and retrain
our minds to process life in a more peaceful way.
This practice is known as the practice of
“Mindfulness.” Mindfulness is the energy of being awake
and alert to the present moment. To be mindful means
that you are deliberately paying full attention to what is
happening around you and within you—in your body,
heart, and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without
criticism or judgment.
To be mindful of your thoughts means that you can
observe your thoughts without labeling or judging them.
You let your thoughts come and go as they please, and
realize you are not your thoughts. By reducing your
attachment to thought, you become less driven by thought,
and slowly your conditioned mind begins to fade away as it
is replaced with a mind that is present and attentive to life
as it is happening now.
Letting go of the past requires that you embrace the
present. When you are fully attentive and interested in
what is happening in this moment, you have no time to
dwell on thoughts of the past or fantasies of the future.
The past and future exist only in your mind. The past is
no longer the present, and the future has yet to come. All
experiences are experienced in the present moment. The
present moment is where life happens. The present
moment is life.
Living in the imagined realm of the past or future—the
realm of thought that our mind creates and eagerly clings
to—only separates us from living in the reality of this
moment. The mind tries to grasp the present moment, rather
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