Living in the Present Moment

the_present_momentHow much of our daily lives do we spend thinking about the past? What could have been or should have been? Personally I’ve done my fair share of this living in the past. Reliving negative experiences over again in my head and analyzing every little detail. On the flip side of that, how often do we think about the future? All the time right? We’re always thinking about what’s coming next. What we’re going to do when we get off of work. What we’re going to do after we graduate from college, after we get married, after we land that great job, yadda, yadda…it goes on and on. Think about it. You can be just sitting at your desk or driving in your car or laying on your couch, it seems like we usually focus on what’s coming next instead of the activity we are currently engaged in. I honestly did not realize how much I did this until I became aware of it. It wasn’t until I read Eckhart Tolle’s “A New Earth” where he talks a lot about living in the present moment that I finally had the realization of this. It was amazing. I started to become more cognizant and aware of my thoughts and where they were focused. Oftentimes, it was not in the here and now. ........ Read more