“IN THE MOMENT”

It is the “thing” now to live in the moment, in the now. It is very true that you do need to fully enjoy today, this moment, what is happening to you now. Going back over the past will do no good, except to continually rehash a moment in time that you can never get back and redo. It is a waste of time and energy, as no matter how badly we wish it we can not change it. It is the past.

I would love very much to live in the “now” completely. But I find it very difficult sometimes.

To be honest the more I thought about it today the more I realized that we, as humans, are raised to not live in the “now”.

Think about it, children in general are certainly livers of in the “now” philosophy. However as we grow, then we are expected to plan ahead. To think about tomorrow and what we are going to do. If we are put into sports or cultural activities then we are planning for that big show or big game. Then we are made to plan ahead for our life, what will we do, will we go to school, work, marry, how many children, and it just spirals from there. To the point that you are constantly planning, anticipating and worrying about tomorrow, next month, next year, and then today is suddenly gone.

I am guilty of being an awful anticipatory worrier, I worry about future things. I realize that this does me no good and in reality sometimes messes up my “now”. I would love to say it is because I am a mom, but I was this way when I was a child as well. So it is just the way I am.

Even my son, though I did not think I had verbalized this trait to my kids, when he was younger would think about getting a girlfriend and by the time his train of thought pulled into the station he had a girlfriend, gotten married, gone to college, moved out, had kids and overall put himself in a dither because he did not know how, at 11 years old, he was going to manage all that.
I would sit him down and explain to him that these things will not happen to him all at once, they will happen over time and he will do just fine with each thing as they come along.

So I have decided what I need to do is take the mystic off of “living in the now” and just live.

I WILL enjoy today for what today is, plan for and anticipate tomorrow, but relax and know that it will take care of itself as it happens.

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“IN THE MOMENT”

It is the “thing” now to live in the moment, in the now. It is very true that you do need to fully enjoy today, this moment, what is happening to you now. Going back over the past will do no good, except to continually rehash a moment in time that you can never get back and redo. It is a waste of time and energy, as no matter how badly we wish it we can not change it. It is the past.

I would love very much to live in the “now” completely. But I find it very difficult sometimes.

To be honest the more I thought about it today the more I realized that we, as humans, are raised to not live in the “now”.

Think about it, children in general are certainly livers of in the “now” philosophy. However as we grow, then we are expected to plan ahead. To think about tomorrow and what we are going to do. If we are put into sports or cultural activities then we are planning for that big show or big game. Then we are made to plan ahead for our life, what will we do, will we go to school, work, marry, how many children, and it just spirals from there. To the point that you are constantly planning, anticipating and worrying about tomorrow, next month, next year, and then today is suddenly gone.

I am guilty of being an awful anticipatory worrier, I worry about future things. I realize that this does me no good and in reality sometimes messes up my “now”. I would love to say it is because I am a mom, but I was this way when I was a child as well. So it is just the way I am.

Even my son, though I did not think I had verbalized this trait to my kids, when he was younger would think about getting a girlfriend and by the time his train of thought pulled into the station he had a girlfriend, gotten married, gone to college, moved out, had kids and overall put himself in a dither because he did not know how, at 11 years old, he was going to manage all that.
I would sit him down and explain to him that these things will not happen to him all at once, they will happen over time and he will do just fine with each thing as they come along.

So I have decided what I need to do is take the mystic off of “living in the now” and just live.

I WILL enjoy today for what today is, plan for and anticipate tomorrow, but relax and know that it will take care of itself as it happens.