Part 20 of 46 · Chapter 20 · 9 min 00 sec

You’ve done the work. You’ve sat with the meditation apps, the breathwork, the journaling prompts. You know about the power of now. You’ve read Tolle. You’ve underlined the passages about presence. You can probably explain “being” to someone else better than most teachers can.

And yet something still isn’t clicking. You catch yourself looping in the same worries by 10am. You know you should be present. You know the future doesn’t exist. You know your thoughts aren’t you. But knowing it and living it are two different countries — and most days you’re still in the wrong one.

It’s not you. It’s not a discipline problem. It’s not that you need to meditate harder or wake up earlier or buy another course on mindfulness. You’ve been taught presence as a practice — something you do for 20 minutes and then return to “real life.” Nobody told you it’s actually the operating system underneath everything else you’re trying to build.

Here’s what this second chapter on Being reframes: presence isn’t a wellness habit. It’s the place where wealth, work, and decisions actually happen. The mind is a tool — a beautiful one — but it was never meant to run you 24/7. Research suggests roughly 90% of our thoughts are repeats. Reruns of yesterday. Trailers for a future that isn’t here. That leaves a small sliver of mental activity that’s actually useful. The rest is noise dressed up as importance.

David’s invitation in this chapter is simple but uncomfortable: stop identifying with your mind. Start watching it. Become the observer, not the thinker. Because the moment of now — the only moment you ever actually meet — has never once been a problem. Problems live in the mind. Events live in now. And you have always, without exception, gotten through now.

Press play when you’re ready to hear what changes when you stop confusing thinking with living.

What this chapter unlocks

  • Why “the world is inside you” is a wealth principle, not a spiritual platitude. David ties inner state directly to outer reality — and explains why the hardest part of acquiring wealth is taming your own mind, the one thing fully within your control.
  • The 90/10 rule of thinking. About 90% of our thoughts are repetitive — worries about the future or replays of the past. David teaches that the mind is meant to be used roughly 10% of the time, like a leg you only use when walking, not constantly.
  • The difference between events and problems. In the moment of now, you have events, not problems. Problems only exist in the mind as imagined futures. This single distinction can dissolve most of the anxiety running your day.
  • The “act as if” mechanism for changing your being. David offers two ways to shift your state: choose now to be what you wish to be and hold it, or act, speak, and think as if — until your being follows suit.
  • Why “I am” are the most potent words you speak. Quoting Al Kitselman: “the thing that you are claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you.” David explains why what you hitch to “I am” matters more than almost any other choice you make.

The 30-second test

Listen to the first 30 seconds. If David’s line about people being “awake but very unaware of their full surroundings here now” lands in your chest — if you recognize yourself as someone who has spent hours of today already trapped in daydreams or worries while a real life was happening around you — this is your chapter. The shift he’s pointing at isn’t another technique. It’s a return.

Why this chapter matters in the series

Chapter 19 introduced Being as the first cause of creation. This chapter goes deeper into how — separating you from your mind, anchoring you in now, and revealing why presence is the precondition for everything else David teaches. From here, the series moves into action: how to act, speak, and work in alignment with the being you’ve chosen. Without this chapter, the next ones become more techniques on a shelf. With it, they become embodied.

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you can remember the past and look toward the future but you can only be yourself here now your being can only be here now being manifestation is only Here and Now millions of people consume their waking hours trapped in their Daydreams worries and other non-present moment thoughts in their minds they are awake but very unaware of their full surroundings here now wake up smell the coffee this simple waking up will produce an amazing change in your life try it commit to waking up one day at a time this combined with the I am present ense thought and visualization is an tense thought and visualization is an amazing speed boost for achieving your desires what you

are so is your world everything in the universe is resolved into your own inward experience it matters little what is without for it is all a reflection of your own State of Consciousness it matters everything what you are within for everything without will be mirrored and colored accordingly James Allen to get wealthy outside get wealthy inside using the sort of information in books like this one to get to billionaire status raise your images and certainty to equivalent levels and act with such certainty with your purpose infusing your actions the world is inside you nothing and no one slows you down or speeds you up except yourself to the extent that you recognize this you will

change your world wealth is a whole lot easier to acquire than you believe it is it is simple the hardest part of wealth acquisition is The Taming of your own mind a thing that is totally within your own control it is correctly said that success is something you attract by the person you become what is being you cannot think being you cannot act being you cannot alk being you can only experience being talk being you can only experience being is business it just is being is consciousness being is of no mind in fact sometimes mind can destroy being what you wish to be being is something you choose to be right now not later but

now when you start thinking about it you destroy it once you are you are any thought after that should not be about whether or not you are it should only be to fulfill that state of being to experience it rather than determine it is often a good idea to be of no mind be still thinking has its position thinking is a tool just as your arm or leg is a tool you do not use your leg all the time you only use it when ecessary the mind is a powerful tool it necessary the mind is a powerful tool it makes many things possible yet it is so powerful that it often takes over us the

Mind should only be used when necessary and it is only necessary about 10% of the time research has shown that about 90% of our thoughts are repetitive most of them are worries about the future or eliving the past this is clearly reliving the past this is clearly unnecessary the only real moment is now escaping now is the cause of much tension and failure and trouble in our world your normal State throughout the day should be of no mind you should be a watcher not a thinker you should watch your mind just as You observe the things outside of you start observing your thoughts as well in this way you cease to be under the control

of mind you stop identifying with mind and identify with yourself the all knowing being you start living in the present instead of the past or the imaginary future your tensions fall away and your success blossoms however do not judge your mind or curse it if you realize you have been under its control it is a beautiful tool if only we learned how to use it correctly you already know how to use it only to make your intentions to give life its appropriate images to bring forth new experiences into the moment of now and to work with things in your moment of now not 5 minutes from now but right now you will start to notice

that in the moment of now you never have any problems you have events but not problems problems exist in the mind in your thoughts as events they are just events that happen and change as oon as they happen in fact mind is at soon as they happen in fact mind is at cause of many of the events now and their sustenance all your problems if any are imaginary and in the future if you are still alive reading this book you will know that you have never missed to get through the moment of now if you are here reading this then you never did fail a moment of now you never did fail to get through

now successfully even death the ultimate fear for so many people is not a problem those who know hat death really is also know that it what death really is also know that it is not a problem hence they do not fear it nothing in now is a problem nothing now is a problem you are designed to execute now perfectly but he minute you start worrying about the minute you start worrying about the future identifying with your mind instead of using it you start having problems remember the future does not exist it is in your mind even when you think of the future you think of it now hen you actually get to it you get

to when you actually get to it you get to it now not then at the time you shall actually be in your future it will still now be the Observer of your thoughts you are not your mind your mind is a powerful and beautiful tool but never identify with it use it to think in the right way and turn it off when you’re not using it in Truth you do not need to use it most of the time think about this have you ever been in a life-threatening situation that just popped right up in your face unexpectedly what happened then your mind may have done some things but it mostly shut off yourself being took

over and in a most intelligent way handled the situation in the best way possible in any true emergency when mind has no time to think about things you sually become present in now and it is usually become present in now and it is never a problem when you do become present in fact you become extremely calm now here is the good news you do not need an emergency to access this calm super intelligence you can learn to be there all the time to be present all the time that is true being being is of no mind being is isness presence awareness Consciousness now your thoughts words and deeds reflect your awareness your Consciousness your being

change your being and you change your world you can change your being in two ways one way is to Simply choose now to be what you wish to be and hold that another way is to act as if you were what you choose to be act as if then speak as if then think as if and sooner or later your being will turn around and follow suit the words I am are potent words Words Be Careful What You hitch them to the thing that you are claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you Al kitselman all other things held constant o the extent that an individual or to the extent that an individual

or Society has positive and Grand states of being in the right way so will they have wealth and happiness think about what you have just read about being it is a lot to take in but it is easy to do it is simple as long as you’re willing to do so like a child is willing to learn ew things of the world to believe you new things of the world to believe you will find it easy to understand being and change your being to the extent that you are willing to be like a child to simplify and do things just because you will be able to understand and internalize this chapter do not worry about

what some of the teachings you just read mean some of the meanings the real meanings will only become clear after you have read the whole of this book they are explainable using other Concepts the chapters on conditionality self one cause and effects time and quantum physics will especially deepen your understanding of being and how it literally works for now however let us get into the next stage of creation being is the first step first cause then follows thinking then speaking and writing words and then acting speak as you think we will not have a chapter here on speaking because words are simply thoughts expressed simply look at what has been said about hinking and apply

it to speaking but hinking and apply it to speaking but hinking and apply it to speaking but just because we do not have a separate chapter here on words does not mean that hey are not important words are very they are not important words are very important they are thoughts expressed and they have a tremendous impact on creation we shall now go into acting the right way to act to receive the gifts of wealth let us get deeper into the world of wealth

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