This Is It – Where Healing Actually Happens

We have all heard that the present moment matters. But do you know how to enter it in a way that healing becomes possible?

I’d like to explore this possibility further with you.

Imagine extending a long measuring line out to your left, which represents your past. Along this line lie all your experiences: the joys, the successes, the love…., but also the hurts, the shocks, disappointment, and losses.

But where do these moments exist now? Only in your memory, in your mind. The thinking mind moves in a straight line from then to now, like reading a book: word by word, chapter by chapter.

The Past Lives in Us Only as a Memory

BUT, your emotional body, doesn’t work that way. It is timeless, non-linear, omnipresent. Anything you couldn’t fully feel in the moment it happened is still alive within you, in your pain-body.

Because emotional impressions are without time and space, a person or situation can suddenly provoke an unexpected emotional reaction in you. The trigger isn’t about the person or situation – it’s about your pain-body reacting.

We all filter our present experience through our emotions and memories of the past, often without realizing it.

This explains why trauma loops and triggers. The mind holds the story, and the body holds the emotion.

The Future Lives in Us Only as Imagination

Now imagine extending another line out to your right. This represents your future, your hopes, plans, visions, dreams… as well as your fears, worries, and uncertainties.

The future feels real because the body responds to imagined situations. But the future too, has no actual location, and it exists only as thoughts, amplified through emotions.

Between these two lines – past and future – most of us oscillate between what was and what might be, rarely being fully in the present moment.

Why Does This Matter?

Because much of our present-day suffering comes from being energetically in the remembered past or imagined future.

And why do old emotions and memories resurface again and again?

• Because they long for completion.
• They want to be healed and integrated.
• They are like lost parts of us wanting to return home.
• And are inviting us to come back to greater wholeness.
• This is where healing happens – in presence.

The Doorway is Awareness

So how do we make the shift?
How do we step out of the mind’s linear timeline?
How do we step out of old emotional echos and future projections?

Through Awareness.

Awareness is the still point that holds everything. It is the alchemical container. It doesn’t fight the past. It doesn’t fix the future. It simply illuminates what is.

In Awareness you can say:

• I am aware of my thoughts.
• I am aware of my emotions.
• I am aware of my body sensations.
• I am aware of the space around me.
• I am aware that I am aware.

This simple recognition is transformational.

Because when you are aware, you are no longer inside the story. You are the presence in which the story arises.

Awareness creates space – and in that space, old emotions soften, memories unwind, and inner freedom emerges.

This is the alchemy of healing.

A Moment of Presence

Right now, I invite you into an awareness practice.

Take a breath.
Feel the air entering and leaving your body.
Feel your feet where they touch the floor.
Notice the subtle sounds around you.

No need to name anything.
Just perceive.

Thoughts may come.
Let them pass like clouds across an open sky.
If you drift into thinking, gently return to being aware.

There is nothing to do, only the simplicity of being.

In this spaciousness, your inner world begins to reorganize naturally.
The pain of the past loosens its grip.
The emotional body settles.
The mind becomes clearer.
Presence deepens.

This is where healing happens – in the light of awareness, in the immediacy of now.

This Is It !

Here you may feel what the poet Hafiz meant:

“Zero. Zero is where the real fun starts…”

Zero is presence – the place beyond counting, comparing, judging, anticipating.
It is the ground of being.

No past.
No future.
Just this.

Just here.
Just now.

This is it. – This is where your healing awakens.