The power of now now

“Truth sings to you with an absence of conflict, a lightness that requires no defense and offers no offense.”– Kerri Lake

In South Africa, they use the term “now now.” Unlike the singular “now” which equivocally means pretty quick or sometimes this hour, now now means right this very second.

Now now is my preferred place to live. Nothing scary, nothing painful or worrisome is happening now now. I’m sitting in my comfortable chair in my comfortable office, pushing keys on a keyboard. There’s not one reason for me to be anywhere but here, now now.

My ego, of course, sings a different tune. It thinks I should worry about the price of gasoline or eggs, or obsess about that time — 15 years ago — I screwed up that talk in California. It urges me to hang out in my head, thinking and planning and preventing bad things from happening. It insists that “it’s dangerous not to worry.”

In the “now now,” we step out of habituated identities. We recognize nothing is happening but pure alive presence.

Yesterday, at my possibility posse, somebody shared a transcendent moment that happened the day before. He was walking out to the garage to clean the litter box and suddenly, out of nowhere, he was stunned by the “now now.” He marveled at the tools, hanging in their designated spot on the wall, he was blown away by the beauty of muddy boots lined up beside the door. He recognized that every single thing was sheer perfection.

That’s the “now now.” Sparkly, peaceful, joyful. And the best part? It’s always here. Now now. If we don’t block it with crazy-making thoughts.

#222 Forever!

Pam Grout is the author of 20 books including E-Squared, E-Cubed, Thank & Grow Rich and her latest book, The Course in Miracles Experiment: A Starter Kit for Rewiring Your Mind (And Therefore Your World)