Do you truly inhabit your life? Does it seem like you belong here? Do you feel at home in your skin? Or do you feel isolated, alone with your thoughts, lost in your mind?
It’s easy to ignore and neglect your life. Your mind always wants to be somewhere else — anywhere but here. It always wants to escape the present by traveling back into the past or forward into the future — anytime but now.
But here and now is ultimately all there is. Everything else is anxiety or regret, memory or anticipation. The present moment is the only place where your life can be found. You won’t find it anywhere else. Life is never then and there. It’s always here and now.
You can get lost in your mind or you can live in this moment. You can stay stuck in your head or you can return home. When you ignore the present moment and neglect the now, you ignore and neglect life. And you miss your one chance to be here, to be where you truly belong.
To inhabit your life is to inhabit this moment. It’s to dwell in the present, not the past or the future. It’s to make your home in the now. Inhabiting your life is being here fully, breathing deeply, and belonging totally.
It’s giving yourself freely to what’s here and now and discovering that you don’t just have a life. You are life.