Why is it so hard to live in the now?
Our society and culture insist that we live in the past and the future. They say we learn from our past and can apply it to our future. But in living in the past we drag all our negative experiences and emotions into the present. Why do we do that? And in living in the future, we bring all our fears and worries back to the present.
Why don’t we bring all our good and happy memories to the now and why can’t we focus on a good and happy future instead of a negative one? Our mind seems to be so negative. But when we live in the present, all that falls away. We do not judge in the present, we just experience it. There is no fear in the present. That is not to say that the present situation will always be great and pain free. But we will not be borrowing pain from the future.
I have been reading Eckhart Tolle “The Power of Now”. It has great information about living in the now. As I have said before, the present is a present.
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