How to stay in the present moment – Ascended Master Answers

Question: Can you advise me on how to stay in the present moment?

Answer from the Ascended Master Gautama Buddha through Kim Michaels. This answer was given during the 2025 Ukraine Webinar.

I know we sometimes sound like a broken record, but it is really the reality here. You need to resolve the psychology, the subconscious selves, because they are the ones that pull you away from the present moment. A subconscious self is either looking towards some lost paradise in the past, or it is looking towards some future paradise. It is never looking at the now, because it cannot. It is a matter of resolving enough subconscious selves that the Conscious You is not being pulled into focusing on the past and the future. And then when you have that resolution, you can then focus on the present moment, and you can simply realize you are always in the present moment. However, be aware that there is a certain focus in spiritual New Age circles about the present moment as some kind of universal solution to all of your problems. It is perfectly correct that the cause of suffering is that the subconscious selves are pulling you to focus on the past or the future.

But even a person who has attained Christhood or Buddhahood is not always focused on the present moment, because how could you plan anything and give your life any kind of direction if you are always focused on the present? You cannot qualify for your ascension by focusing on the present moment. And while you are still working on your psychology, you cannot resolve your psychology by focusing on the present moment, because it is often necessary to focus on the past in order to resolve a particular subconscious self that was created in the past. Be careful not to make this some superior goal to be focused in the present moment. Dissolve the selves that pull you away from the present moment, and it will spontaneously begin to happen.