Be Present! I don’t just hear this a lot, it’s something I say a lot, and write about a lot myself: The Now is where our joy lives! That’s the only place we can experience happiness from, so learning to be more present is a valuable and worthwhile life skill. Which is true.
It’s not the answer though to every situation. Sometimes reflection is really valuable – it allows us to look back, see what’s worked, what hasn’t and adjust our boundaries and expectations accordingly. And sometimes projecting forward to how we will feel when we have accomplished a particular thing is a really helpful way of creating momentum and motivation.
About that break up that’s years past.The thing their mother should have said but didn’t. The career path that just didn’t work out. When we spend the majority of our time in the past, we tend to have prevailing emotions of sadness, anger, regret. It’s heavy work being past focused, and it makes it hard to connect to the good that might be present right now if we looked hard enough.
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What’s got to be sorted out next? What’s next on the list? Can’t relax until x, y and z are done. Once a, b and c are in place, then everything will be plain sailing. Just got to do that thing, can’t relax till it’s done. When we are obsessively future-focused, our mood is characterised by anxiety, worry, agitation. We are literally Future Tense. We have a hard time relaxing and enjoying the joy that we could connect with right now if only we would sit still for long enough to sense it.
If we are housed almost exclusively in the present, then we might have a lot of connected and fun-filled now moments, but we don’t perhaps have the drive or the direction to make the big leaps of which we are capable. We can underestimate what we can accomplish medium to long term and be overly passive with our life’s direction.
When the alarm goes off, and I don’t feel like going for a run or an exercise class before the day begins, to be honest, the Stay In The Present Moment mantra seems like a very good one, as it translates seamlessly to Stay In The Nice Warm Toasty Bed. Ha! Hard to argue with. But. That’s a decision way better weighed up by the Future Me. The one that will enjoy the present moment much more when my jeans fit, and I feel comfortable in my own skin. Future Me wants me to get up. Invest in a whole series of future present moments where I feel fit, strong and healthy. In this instance, Future Me wins.
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Feeling upset and wondering if I could have handled a situation better? A bit of past focus is really healthy. To look at what unfolded, the patterns of thought and action and to determine lessons to be learned for next time. To process it and move forwards, rather than to obsess and to get stuck. But to learn and to release. To not spend a small amount of time reflecting is to discard the gold that our life experiences have to teach us for a better tomorrow.
Meeting with a friend. Playing with children. Eating great food. Running through the bush. Listening, really listening to a client. These are all moments to devote to being as present as I can possibly be. Connecting to the present, turning the phone on silent. Engaging all 5 senses fully. Maximising the present moment for all it has.
As human beings, our mind is capable of juggling between all three modes of focus. Each has its value. Find a blend that serves you best.
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What we don’t realize is that it holds so much information, so much wisdom and so much experiences that we can not ever accumulate in our life time. Yet, knowing all that, many don’t dig enough into it…and I’m not talking here in terms of one’s own past, but rather the past of a whole country, nation, and civilization in general.
Go back to the history books and you will realize that human civilisation is a “de-ja vu” happening over and over again. Different times, different places, different people…same story with a small twist. It gets me wondering sometimes, if those people actually read, understood and analysed what happened in the past, would they change or would they still have done what they previously planned to do?
Wouldn’t it be much more useful if when I’m facing any issue in my life (whether career or personal or political or national or …) I do know what happened in the past in such cases and decided accordingly? Rather than just contemplating in the way I feel and like and what people around me say and all those unknowns?
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Infact aside from this simple example, think of where we stand today…in the present…and you’ll realise it is simply the accumulation of events, plans and decisions done in the past…and so to really understand where we are in life…it is crucial to actually know what our predecessors did and why.
Taking it a step further(hypothetically), now that we thought and reflected on the past and got a better understanding of the present (hopefully that is) it is much easier to see the big picture and many of the underlying details of the previously foggy future. At least now we understand better were we stand in this world, how are others related to us and how do we relate to the overall progress of civilisation and where might it all probably lead next.
I can sit here, contemplate and right for hours…but I do not want to bore you but rather instigate you to ponder and give me your feedback…
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