Feel the fabric of your clothes and focus on how they feel.įor the last three days the dark winter seems to have left us here in Sweden. Just look at what's right in front of you right now (besides your laptop/phone and my blog). But the more time and effort you spend connecting with the moment the easier it gets reconnecting with it. You will slip back into involuntarily thinking about the future/past. But before we get to them I'd just like to add that this is a skill. How do you actually return to the present moment? Instead you move around on the positive part of the emotional scale.īut how can you step away from the thought loops that whirl back and forth through your memories and fantasies? Since there is little fear, there are few negative emotions when you are in the present. Since you are not projecting into a possible future or reflecting on previous experiences there is very little fear holding you back or worry stopping you. You feel centred, relaxed and whatever you do you do more easily.
This is very useful in conversations, at work, while writing or while on the tennis court. When you are in the moment you have a much better focus and things flow naturally out of you. There are more advantages to being in the moment besides being able to decrease mindmade suffering. The moment that is all there ever was and – probably :) – will be. The key to solving this problem is of course to live as much as you can in the only moment that you ever really live in and control. This way of thinking is indeed a great way to make much of your life a lot more miserable and limited than necessary. And we spend much time projecting into the future and wondering about what may happen. We spend much time thinking about what was and what could have been. As humans we tend to spend a lot of time in the past or the future.
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