You've heard the phrase 'Be Here Now' ?

 

To 'Become Present' means 'Be Here More'...

 

...something more is waiting to be discovered by you.

 

Becoming more Present is one thing.

Remaining more Present is another thing.

 

Read through the 4 Brains website to distinguish the characteristics of each of your 4 Brains.

Notice which of your 4 Brains has most importance for you.

Noticing your own dominant brain helps you get more clear about which of the 4 Brains is important to each person across from you. Try speaking to them in their dominant brain language.

A Team needs all 4 Brain intelligences included to be most creative. In each meeting see if you can include the brain types you ordinarly reject.

Become Present to your dominant brain.

• INTELLECTUAL Do you put most of your time and attention on your thinking? Your stories? Rehearsing what you are going to say? The voices in your head about what you should do or have to do? Trying to appear to be smarter than others?
• PHYSICAL Do you put most of your time and attention on your looks? Your clothes? Your hair? Being sexually attractive? Your aches and pains? Your diet? Keeping a smile on your face? Being first? Being seen?
• EMOTIONAL Do you put most of your time and attention on your emotional soup? Your reactions? Your reactions to other people's reactions to you? Suppressing your anger? Your fears about what will happen if you are not being like others expect you should be? Your fears of the threatening or critical voices in your head?
• ENERGETIC Do you put most of your time and attention on who has status? Who should flow sexual power to you and is not? Who insults who? The timing of what you say? Who is paying attention to you and who is ignoring you? Who you are connected to and to what degree? What is expected of you? Who is in your space?
• ARCHETYPAL Do you put most of your time and attention on the vision you carry for bringing your gifts to the village? Preparing yourself to fulfill the next jobs that arrive on your bench? How to hold space for what you know is possible to come into existence? Building out gameworlds to honor the good fortune of being alive?

Two useful resources for a human being are your Conscious Presence and your Conscious Attention.

Where you place your Conscious Attention is what you are Consciously Present to - what you notice.

Your Attention does not move for no reason. When you are not aware of the cause of your attention being placed somewhere then you are flowing energy into building up your own unconsciousness. Are you sure you want to do this?

Today notice where your attention goes to the 5 Bodies of each person you are around.

In your Beep! Book, write down your purpose (unconscious purpose...) for putting your attention on that part of that body of that person. This may not be a comfortable realization for you. Do it anyway.

Then notice which of your 5 Bodies the other person is paying attention to, even if they want you to believe they are paying attention to something else. Write that in your Beep!Book too.

The sounds you hear in your ears stimulate nerve impulses to your brain in the Present. Your brain/mind/heart/energyfield/archetype adds meaning to the nerve impulses in the next moment. But what a mess! So many editorial forces are at work simultaneously pulling you this way and that way. What is the outcome of the message you receive? Even more importantly, how close is what you understand to the intention behind what was said? Most of us assume our interpretations are correct.

Become Present to your inner editorial staff creating confusions for you.

Read through the Experiential Reality website with the purpose of noticing that you have not been noticing. Thinking is different from 5 Body Presence Noticicing. Understanding is different from 5 Body Presence Noticing. Verbal Reality is a desert compared to Experiential Reality. Become Present to being trained to survive in a desert rather than being trained to live full out on planet Earth.

Start your day by setting a chime to ring randomly approximately once per hour throughout the day.

Each time the chime sounds do this procedure no matter where you are or what you are doing. (If you are driving, stop your bicycle, get off, do the procedure. If someone asks you what you are doing, you can say, "I am practicing being Grounded."):

1. Stand up straight. Close your eyes. Take a deep breath.
2. Put your Being's Attention on your Energetic Center, wherever it is. (Who did you give your Center away to this time? Your kids? Your colleague? Time? Money? Your mind? Your worry stories? Your fantasy worlds? Your memories from the past?)
3. Use your Being's Will to move your Energetic Center from wherever it is to your Physical Center, located three fingers below your navel and halfway back in your abdomen (your 'hara'). Now you have Become Centered.
4. Use your Clicker (snap your fingers) to energetically Declare your Grounding Cord connecting your Energetic Center to the center of the Earth.  Your Grounding Cord should be 4 or 5 centimeters in diameter (1.5 to 2.0 inches). It should be flexible like a rubber watering hose. And it will have some color. The color usually changes from day to day but does not mean anything. What color is your Grounding Cord today? 
5. Tell someone the color of your Grounding Cord.
6. Use some percentage of your Conscious Attention to remember your energetic connection to the center of the Earth, perhaps 5% of your Attention.
7. Check with Gaia. With your eyes still closed, silently ask, "Hello Gaia. Do you have anything for me right now?" Then listen without expectations. Whatever comes,  write it down immediately in your Beep! Book on a page titled Messages From Gaia. You don't have to do anything about whatever you receive. But now you have received it.
8. Take another deep breath. Open your eyes. Continue with you life as a Centered and Grounded human being, with 5% of your Attention on your Grounding Cord.

Read through the Numbness Bar website so that you fully understand that lowering your Numbness Bar means you will be feeling more...

If this is a concern to you, then you might want to shift from the Old Thoughtmap of Feelings to the New Thoughtmap of Feelings.

If shifting to a new thoughtmap brings up fear you may want to study the Shift Identity website to better understand what you are doing already unconsciously each day.

Making a decision is exercising your Power of Choosing, one of your 3 Powers.

The way you can detect when you make a decision is something happens in one of your 5 Bodies. This is extremely useful information because it helps you detect when you decide something but do not realize you decided it.

For example, if you notice a tension in your diaphragm holding back your breath, this could be a signal that you just made a decision.

If you do not already know the decision that you just made then your decision was unconscious. You can then use the tension in your diaphragm as the decision detector by following back the tension to with a question to yourself: "What did I just decide?"

The answer might me, "I decided to wait before I say what I want until the other person says what they want."

Or, "I decided to do what I want no matter what they say they want."

Or, "I decided block my heart from any feelings I might have about what the other person is going to say."

There are so many possible things you are deciding about all day and night that are signalled by foot movements, twitching fingers, shoulders shrugging, mouth movements, glances, etc. If you do not notice an unconscious decision it still affects your ability to move freely and create wonderful outcomes for you and the others and the Earth.

DECISION TENSION TEST

Once you become sensitive to the connection between your body and your decisions, you can help use your body's intelligence to make difficult or complex decisions. For example, if you need to decide if you should move to Fiji or not, Become Present with your 5 Bodies and then say out loud to someone, "I decided to move to Fiji," and notice if your body tenses up anywhere or if it relaxes. If it tenses up then your body is telling you that it has concerns about that. If your body relaxes then your body signals that all is okay with moving to Fiji. Then do the reverse test. Tell the same person with just as much conviction, "I decided I will never move to Fiji," and notice what your body does. If it tenses then it wants to move to Fiji. If it relaxes, then your body is telling you it feels better about not moving to Fiji. By doing this Decision Tension Test in both directions, if your body's answers are consistent in both directions you have a powerful confirmation of your choice.

Look in the dark places.

To 'speak in parentheses' is a way to describe what it feels like to be conscious of the context of your speaking.

The context is the framework or holder of your speaking.

In this Experiment, make the context of each conversation your experimenting to Become Present. Speak from within the context of Becoming An Experimenter who is Becoming Present.

For 24 hours, alternate making your speaking parentheses in several ways:

1. Pause one full second before you would normally speak and keep eye contact with your listener through that whole moment of waiting.
2. As you speak, keep 20% of your attention on the Purpose of your speaking, that is, remember what your intention is (to Become Present).
3. Introduce your speaking by first saying why it is that you want to say what you want to say (to Become Present). It may end up that for a while you are only saying why you want to say what you want to say rather than saying what you want to say.
4. Pronounce your words with a different accent than your usual one. 
5. Formulate your speech patterns into the patterns of a different character.
6. While you are speaking, intentionally place your attention in a new place every three seconds.
7. While you are speaking, intentionally place your attention at the center of the black pupil of one of your listener's eyes. Choose one eye and stick with that one eye unwaveringly. Let a nonverbal metaconversation occur between your eyes simultaneous with the verbal conversation happening between your brains.
8. While you are speaking make it a parallel but equally important purpose to mention one of your Bright Principles in at least every other sentence. Do not explain that it is your Bright Principle but simply use its name in your sentence. (If you have not yet distilled your Bright Principles we uploaded the initiation for you at the brightprinciples.org website.)
9. Remember your own death as you speak (and the death of your conversation partner). While remembering that you and they will ultimately die, regard these sentences that you are exchanging as part of the last and perhaps most important conversation you will ever have with them.

The 5 centimeter bigger gap creates in the other person the experience that you are not Being With them. See how much of this you can experience.

Make 'right angle turns at light speed'.

For example, if you listen to what a person actually says and repeat back to them both the information and the feelings / emotions, then their message is complete and their life can evolve to the next level. They no longer have to be the person who is carrying around that old incomplete message. That life is over, because you were willing to fully receive the message.

Try to be as present as a cat.

Start each paragraph in your sharing today, whether it is spoken or written, including messages, voicemails, and emails, with the phrase, "I am noticing that...."

See what this does to change the state of your experience.

Something astonishing and world-shattering may happen to you if you actually do this Experiment today. This is just a little warning to be prepared to let the astonishing thing happen. It is good stuff.

Start each sentence in your sharing today, whether it is spoken or written, including messages, voicemails, and emails, with the phrase, "What I am aware of right now is..."

See if your awareness is balanced in your 5 Bodies or if it tends to be dominated by one or more of your bodies.

See what this changes in the state of your experience.

The old saying used to be, "Practice makes perfect."

But since the perfectionism thing is no longer in style, the new saying is, "Practice makes Presence."

The practice here is: Agree with the ordinary.

The realization is that disagreeing with the ordinary is, itself, ordinary. So when people make comments about what you are doing that are insulting, derogatory, complaining, nonsense, criticizing, etc., your practice is to agree, regardless of what it is.

If the bull is charging at you and you try to block the bull, that automatically makes a fight. But if you spin around 180 degrees so that you are facing the same way the bull is facing and stand at the bull's shoulder, you become invisible to him, and definitely no longer a threat to his belief system.

When you have already decided something the decision tends to become solid.

But you have not become solid.

You have continued to evolve in 5 Bodies.

What this means is that even if you made your decision only a few seconds ago you may no longer fit into the decision you made. Your Being may have changed shape.

Are you present enough with the shape of your Being to keep matching yourself to your decision to see if it is still working for you?

Even in the moment of enacting your decision, it may need to be changed to something else. Who will change it? Give yourself this kind of flexible space in which to be Present.

Here is where today's Presence practice becomes challenging... ask someone in your 3Cell to read and watch your way through the What Now? website. Take your time. Feel what you feel together. Think what you think. Then consider together out loud what you might want to Change Your Mind about.

Read through the Learning Spiral website to understand how the Learning Spiral goes.

1. Unconscious Incompetence
2. Conscious Incompetence
3. Conscious Competence
4. Unconscious Competence

During your conversations with several people today, add in some spontaneous comments that come from Becoming Present with where you are in the Learning Spiral regarding:

• Personal relationship
• Becoming money
• Your path of evolution, or 
• Creating what you came here to create

Then explain the 4 Steps around the Learning Spiral to your friend and ask them where they are and how you can support them. See if you can be Present enough in your image of the other person to let them tell you new and unexpected stories about themselves that perhaps they never told anyone else ever before.

Put the thing on your desk, beside you on the bus, carry it with your hands into the field or the store.

At the end of the day, create a small ceremony for passing this object respecfully on to someone else or somehow recycling it.

Be sure to have at least one witness for the ceremony who understands what you are doing.

By the way, what are you doing? Ahhh! You are Being Present with yourself, a self who no longer needs the burden of carrying around that particular object anymore. Your are freeing up your attention and energy to have more Presence. Nice!

The first time you do the commitment exercise, it does not have to be a very big commitment. What is important is that you keep your commitment so that your word begins to have validity in the real world universe.

Later you can build up to making impossible commitments and then making them happen... but we suggest you learn a few more things about Possibility Management before you do this...

Each time you notice that you have been in a daydream or have been fantasizing about someone or something, snap the hairband on your wrist and write down in your Beep! Book exactly what it was about.

By the end of the day you may have quite a catalog of daydream topics or fantasy world theme parks documented.

Each time also write down what was or was not going on in your environment when you caught yourself daydreaming of fantasizing.

Consider the possibility that those circumstances may not be a valuable use of the time of your life, so much so that you would rather watch Daydream TV than Become Present to your life. Consider the possibility of changing your mind about spending your life in those ways where you find it necessary to substitute Daydream TV for life...

Dealing directly with Purpose bypasses so many diversions and so much manipulation that distract from Becoming Present.

By becoming civilized we have become less passionate about our lives. We neither love things nor hate things. We have become listless.

We have replaced being positively passionate with being negatively complaining.

Pick a little! Talk a little! Pick a little! Talk a little! Cheep! Cheep! Cheep! Pick a lot! Talk a little more!

The Experiment today is to have a prison break. Let yourself become a little bit more free of the construct of civilization. Let yourself say, "I totally love this!" and "I absolutely hate this!" Be responsible for what you say and who you say it too, and at the same time, experience the passion meter wake up from around snooze and go to, "Hey! The sun is up! I am alive!"

If no one is there when you notice a new way that you are NOT Being Present, write the example and the evidence into your Beep! Book under the heading: WAYS I AVOID PRESENCE.

If someone listens to your explanation, do not act as if you are a Victim forcing them to be the Rescuer. That is not the point.

The point is to have a witness to what you notice about yourself. The witness confirms your moment of Presence about NOT Being Present.

Hold a Gap In Space or a Gap In Knowing between you and all the offers made by everyone else around you. Then you can be Present as you (in your culture or your gameworld), and they can be Present to whatever degree they want, and you can freely interact with dignity and respect.

Their degree of Presence is not your problem.

If you hold a Gap In Time there might be a time-delay between their question and your response which could be uncomfortable for the others, so we recommend using one of the other 9 Gaps than a Gap In Time.

The blind assumption carried by most modern-culture citizens is that you are - you must be - you should be - you have to be - trapped inside the same set of assumptions, taboos, superstitions, beliefs, social rules and niceties as they are.

The group pressure exerted by this kind of mass Zombie assumption is strong enough to put most people to sleep and suck them immediately back into Zombieland without them even knowing what is happening.

Write in your Beep! Book every voice in your head telling you to be nice, be polite, hide out, play small.

Most people who have NOT done the 99 Days of Presence Expansion Experiments have no safe harbor, no self-made sanctuary in which to preserve their own Presence. But you do. From now on, you have this Sacred Space of Presence in which to stand, sit, lie down, or walk Being your own Presence without ever sacrificing it to Social Hooks.

The way to be okay with other people being embarassed, shocked, not understanding you, making up stories about you being weird, fear of your unpredictability and uncontrollability, etc., is to have, as one of your options, the identity of Pirate.

The capital 'P' in the word Pirate means conscious, radically responsible Pirate, not the ordinary small 'p' pirate who is an unconscious Gremlin running amok.

As they say:

Always be yourself.

Unless you can be a Pirate.

Then always be a Pirate!

As they say:

Harbigarrr!

The fear in my heart

Won't vanish no matter what.

I saw the future.

There is so much love.

Birds fly in the sky freely.

I sit here waiting.

What is she thinking?

So near, such a mystery.

I'm a lucky man.

I keep making the

same mistakes I made before.

What is the purpose?

Sometimes magic works.

Sometimes it fails to appear.

Moments of Presence.

If you are not familiar with the concept and importance of 'gameworlds', please review the details at the Gameworlds website: gameworldbuilder.org.

In short, you support the values of any gameworld you play in.

If you are not aware of the values of the gameworlds you play in, you support them anyway, creating a world in which those values cause their consequences.

The theory is that if a person unconsciously supports the values of win-lose games, consumption, racism, superiority, arrogance, ruthless competition, racial prejudice, and destruction of nature, that person must be suppressing an equal amount of pain. They must be numb to causing pain in the world as a side-effect of staying numb to their own pain. Four times today, gently approach someone you might suspect of being a 'Zombie' and be curious about the level of pain they carry about their own upbringing, their parents, their family, their schooling. Be grateful for whatever they tell you.

You can distill the Bright Principles of your Destiny by following the instructions at the Bright Principles website: brightprinciples.mystrikingly.com.

When you know your set of three, four, or five Bright Principles you can Become Present to them with gratitude, with respect, and also with questions like: "What can I do for you?" Or, "What do you have for me right now?"

Five times today, get Centered, Grounded, Bubbled, and Present, and ask such a question to your Bright Principles, either for yourself or for another person who is with you.

If it is for you, write the answers down in your Beep! Book under Messages From My Bright Principles.

If it is for another, tell them what you got for them.

Being a Space through which your Bright Principles can do their work in the world can be quite exhiliarating... so please don't do it while you are driving... (Thanks.)

You often use up energy and information performing unconscious behaviors. It is easier to notice these behaviors in others than in yourself. The point is, if you do not Become Present to what you are up to right now, you cannot be up to anything else. Unconscious behaviors include:

• Twisting your hair
• Picking at your fingernails
• Fondling your shirt buttons or seams
• Putting your thumbs in your pockets
• Picking your nose
• Bouncing your leg
• Tapping your feet
• Tapping or flipping your pen or pencil in your fingers
• Twitches in your face or eyes
• Muscle spasms
• Blinking your eyes more often than needed
• Hiding your pupils behind the rim of your glasses
• Pushing back your hair or keeping hair in your face
• Interrupting someone speaking before they have said what they need to say
• Not making boundaries and complaining about it afterwards
• Etc.

These behaviors are no accident. Each one is driven by useful energy and information, and therefore each one is a doorway to a healing or transformation process that is being avoided or not very successfully suppressed. To use the doorway it is first necessary to notice the doorway. To live your life and notice the unconscious behaviors - especially in the moment they start - requires splitting your attention. One part of your attention remains on the moment-to-moment experience and reinvention of your participation in life. The other part of your attention observes what is really going on. For this reason it may be useful for you to review the Self Observation website before reading through the Split Your Attention website.

Becoming Present to 'What Is Now' opens a powerful doorway to Becoming Present to 'What Is Not Now'.

'What Is Not Now' may be possible and / or desirable to create, or it may not be possible or desirable.

Whether something is possible or not depends on your skills and also on reality.

Learning to also see 'What Is Not Now' is how you unleash your capacity to see the invisible.

'What Is Not Now ' is potential.

Potential remains invisible until the potential is transformed into reality in the Present. Then everyone can see it. Before potential becomes actualized it is not visible.

In order to do the impossible you must first be able to see the invisible.

In other words, clearly seeing 'What Is Now' allows you to become aware of and see 'What Is Possible Now'.

Seeing 'What Is Possible Now' empowers you to Choose 'What Is Next'.