PRESENCE / BEING PRESENT

This explanation is intended to clarify how presence can be interpreted and how I understand and apply presence, or being present.

When you enter a room, you are present there. When someone calls your name, you are present. When you sit on a pier and observe what is happening around you, you are present. When you meditate, you are present within yourself. These are forms of presence we recognize and understand in everyday awareness.

The presence I am referring to here goes a step further. It is that which is one with everything that exists.

We usually live from an unconscious sense of separation: you are this way, I am that way; they think differently than we do; I can do this and you cannot; in this place I feel good and in another place I feel bad. This experience of separation arises from dualistic thinking: here and there, now and later, me and the other.

Presence, in its deeper meaning, is that which exists within the field—or web—of possibilities of this universe. The different realities, layers of consciousness, or even potential parallel universes are expressions of a continuous energetic dynamic. Everything is in motion.

This movement is guided by emotions, feelings, and beliefs. Not only your own, but also those of others who, just like you, feel, think, and believe. Together, we form an interactive field in which everything influences everything else.

As you begin to understand this form of presence, you can consciously work with it—for yourself and in relation to others. This presence does not primarily respond to what you do or think, but to the emotional charge and inner state beneath it. It responds to who you are, or more precisely, who you believe yourself to be.

If you feel unworthy or inferior, this field will reflect situations that confirm those feelings. If you live with fear, the web of experiences will offer circumstances that feed that fear. If you dwell in anger, your reality will tend to reinforce and amplify anger. The field functions as a mirror.

Presence is connected to everything: you, me, us, the outer world, and the worldview that emerges from it.

But… it can be different.

When you understand how this works, the possibility arises to consciously change who you are by learning to use the “language” of this field. Not by forcing or needing, but by shifting your inner state. When your way of being changes, your reality changes with it.

Illness is a powerful example of this. No one wants to be ill. Often, we want to immediately do something to get better. Yet “doing” and “having to” are once again expressions of duality: I am sick and I must become healthy. This inner conflict creates tension, and that tension is something the field clearly responds to.

Another approach is to live from the moment of I am healthy, even when the body is still experiencing symptoms. In doing so, you bring a future image into the present moment. The brain barely distinguishes between now and later; it responds to what is experienced as real. From that lived experience, the body can activate processes that support detoxification, recovery, and healing.

This does not mean that medical care becomes unnecessary, but it does mean that consciousness, emotion, and inner experience play an essential role in long-term illness processes, including serious conditions.

Presence requires no struggle, no forcing, no obligation. It invites attunement, honest feeling, and embodying that which you wish to experience. In that attunement, change arises—from the inside out.