NEED TO BE IN THE NOW TO BE PRESENT IN TIME: The act of smoking a cigarette seems to effect the ability to stay in the present

It is that it is often hard for us to be in a place that is very important to be in, if our spirituality is to develop, and that is ,be in...‘the now’ ...or in present time. (One of the symptoms of insufficient awareness, is that our attention tends either to be drawn backwards to our past or forwards to our future.) Also, the more awake we become , the easier it is for us to choose our states of being at any time, and not live, as asleep man tends to, in a state of continual reactivity to what is going on around him. We can choose, for example, to not be a victim, to be brave and determined, to see more, to love more, to be more effective. 

If I am awake, I am more able to access ecstatic states and the easier it becomes for me to become spiritually awake.The act of smoking a cigarette seems to effect the ability to stay in the present, possibly it may have something to do with addictive expectation and the need for constant repetition of the act of smoking.

The down time between cigarettes or the waiting time before the next addictive act cause the recipient to been in the past remembering the last puff or in the future expecting the next puff of nicotine and smoke.

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