NLP Tip: You Are Already Here

publication date: Jan 24, 2008

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author/source: Jamie Smart - www.saladltd.co.uk

You are already here.

The place you thought you’d get to once you’d made the changes, achieved the goals, completed the journey; you’re already here. In fact, you never left. The only thing that has ever stopped you from experiencing the reality of being here is the idea that you need to be somewhere else.

The only thing that is (or can) stop you from experiencing the peace and fulfillment of now is the idea that peace and fulfillment is elsewhere, in something else, a different experience, further on down the road.

But it isn’t. You’re here, and you always have been. You’re here, and you always will be. So you can stop struggling, relax, and feel a sense of comfort in the knowledge that you are already here.

Now you may protest “But I’m not peaceful, happy, fulfilled! I’ve been trying to achieve peace for years and I’m not there yet!”

You cannot find something where it isn’t. Stop struggling. Stop searching. Accept yourself exactly as you are. The search is over. Peace / love / fulfillment / joy; these are at the core of who you are. When you stop trying to find them elsewhere, when you give up the search, you will start to experience them.

Here’s the deal in a nutshell: When you are searching for peace, you presuppose that you don‘t have it. What the thinker thinks the prover proves, so your neurology sorts and filters all your perceptions to prove that you don’t have it. This becomes more and more familiar over time, and the search continues. It is a search without an end. Are you willing to give up the search?

You are already here. You never left. You only thought you did. You are whole and complete. Relax. Let go. Allow yourself to discover who you really are.

"To grow, you must be willing to let your present and future be

totally unlike your past. Your history is not your destiny."- Alan Cohen