Habitual Reaching

Habitual reaching is like wishing your life away as it keeps you from experiencing the present moment. What’s occurring right now is always what’s here as opposed to habitually reaching for the present moment to be different…

Many people think reaching is something that’s needed, but it’s not. It’s a habit used by the Conditioned Mind and it keeps you from not understanding what it means to be in the present moment. It’s a direct cause of suffering as it makes you reach for something that makes you live life in the future. The Conditioned Mind does this by telling you the present moment isn’t good enough and it needs to be different. It projects a lie that things would be better if they were different. Maybe on the surface they would be, but inward is where one derives the perception that makes life what it is; so it will be a life of habitual reaching or one of contentment. Even if what’s habitual reached for is attained it won’t last, but the habit will. Inward there’s a better chance to break the habit, but this is only if one is awake enough to see this.

Let’s say you’re diagnosed with some kind of illness, the only thing habitual reaching does is it makes you wish the diagnoses was different, but it doesn’t change the fact of what is occurring right now. The illness remains regardless of wanting it different or what you think is needed to reach for. If you don’t reach for needing life different and it’s accepted as it is, you will experience the peace of the present moment regardless of what’s occurring. This is because right now is the only place of true existence so it’s important to see this. Not in the habitual reaching of the future, but right now because right now doesn’t need to be different…