This is the eighth session of the eighth series of Lanzarote Sessions, transcribed during a break to the Canary Islands in December 2024. During our frequent visits, I sit in the power of the spirit at least once daily and allow the spirit-connect to share a message with me.
|| This summary written on 30th April 2025
I’ve always had this weird obsession when viewing photos, such as the one above. A moment of time captured where everything in it was actually living.
My obsession has always been in wondering what thoughts were in the minds of the people in the photo at the moment it was taken. In this example, what was I thinking? What were my emotions in those moments of history? What about the chef and the owner in the background? What part do they play in that moment of time that is gone forever? Were they themselves living in that moment with contentment and an awareness of the moment? What were they talking about? What secrets are hidden in the minds of those people? Thoughts that are invisible to the lens. How has any of the lives captured in that moment changed since?
Recently, a Spirited Talk Envoy commented about how difficult it is to live in the moment, as we are told we should. Life gets in the way, doesn’t it. Surely, when we view an image, such as the one above, we are reliving that moment of time in far more detail than when it happened.
With my quarter of a century of being a student of spiritual unfoldment, I should know how to answer the question, “How do I live in the moment?” I would have a go at answering, like everyone else would, but how accurate would my answer be? Would it just be my opinion and an entirely different approach to the one you might consider?
After reading this session for this presentation, I came to the conclusion that there is no such ability as being able to live in the moment. It is scientifically, and logically impossible. What, therefore, are the intended sentiments of the phrase and how can we adopt the ‘living-in-the-moment‘ attitude into our busy daily lives? Perhaps this session speaker will offer some advice.
This speaker is pampering to my need to have a logical and sensible answer to everything. Again though, when the speaker suggested what she was going to talk about, there were a few moments of concern in my me-mind!
THE SPIRIT INSIGHT
transcribed on Tuesday, 17th December 2024, at 2:00 pm
Hello, yes I am a lady. My name is shavown though I knew you’d not spell it correctly! [CORRECTED DURING EDIT: SIOBHAN]
The title for my few words with you is “The Power in the Moment“. Many people have spoken to you before on this topic so I hope I bring a fresh approach to it.
What is the moment? Does it exists? Or does it become a moment of the past before your mind has grasped it?
If the moment doesn’t appear long enough to be so, how can you be expected to live in it? Surely everything would be the past, the immediate past? To therefore live in that passed moment is not possible. Yet you did.
So how can you truly live in the moments. Easy!
When you sat in prayer a few minutes ago, your mind was focused on making sure the words of the prayer were heard by your own mind, rather than just passing thoughts without true meaning. That focus you used was the ultimate opportunity for you to be living in the moment, then the next, and the next, and so on.
You moved from that collection of moments when your focus changed to picking up your pen. Then, more moments passed before your focus shifted to my voice in your mind, and you started to write. This valuable time was as close as is possible to living in the moment. But you only recall them, because there is a collection of them together in a meaningful phase of passing time.
Too many people talk of living in the moment as if its something different, beneficial or mystical. Everyone is living in their collection of moments, all day and every day. Doesn’t it strike you as odd that some people make a big deal about it without really capturing the true essence of its meaning?
In a ‘moment’ I want you to stop writing and take a [moment to] listen to my message. It’s a short message and, for now, you don’t have to write it.
Leave a gap and fill it in when I say to. Are you ready?
“THE FLOW OF TIME IS CONSTANT, AND EVERY MOMENT IN IT IS YOURS.”
You didn’t listen to me. I said not to write it down. But I knew you would because you feared forgetting it. And there exactly is why people don’t experience the moment to its fullest.
With practise and purpose, everything you wish to recall from a moment can be retained in your mind, when it has received enough focus.
Because you were convinced you’d forget my phrase, you wrote it down. You made that decision because your past dictates you forget too easily. But here’s the big secret. Here’s the exciting part of focussing on the passing moments. You’ll recall them easier.
You see, the next time someone suggests to you that you should live in the moment, know that they most likely don’t know how to themselves and now, you do.
You and I have now shared many moments together. We’ve lived in them together. We’ve experienced them together. Nothing more can be expected from you. You’ve lived in those future moments as they passed the narrow now, and passed into your past. Yet you recall living in them.
This is the essence of living in the moment, or better named, the here and now.
Thank you for listening to me SHABHON!! [Siobhan]
MY AFTERTHOUGHTS
written at the time of this presentation
🔷 What a fantastic and sensible answer to that age-old question. Siobhan is suggesting to forget the phrase as it reads and instead strengthen our focus on what it is we are doing at any moment in time. Such a great solution.
🔷 I suppose we might therefore ask, how do we stop ourselves focusing on the future or the past? My thoughts are that we don’t need to. If we are using this moment to focus on what we are doing later, isn’t that the same as strengthening the focus in that very moment? Using a moment to recall the past is the same, surely. I gave this thought and realised that when we put our focus on forthcoming or past events, we are indeed living in there here and now with greater focus. Recollection is ok, as is planning. The only time it is not is when we are using the moments to worry about something that has not, nor might not, happen.
🔷 What a philosophical ending Siobhan used, reminding me that she and I had now shared some moments in time together. That’s quite deep, when you give it thought and focus. For me, this is one of those session that we all could benefit from reading time and time again. It fills me with pride that I am an envoy for these lessons from our friends in our future.
“The flow of time is constant, and every moment in it is yours.”
