Live In The Present Moment

 “Don’t miss all the beautiful colors of the rainbow looking for that pot of gold.” - Manav 

Life unfolds in the present. But so often, we let the present slip away, allowing time to rush past unobserved and unseized, and squandering the precious seconds of our lives as we worry about the future and ruminate about what's past.

 "We're living in a world that contributes in a major way to mental fragmentation, disintegration, distraction, decoherence," says Buddhist scholar B. Alan Wallace. We're always doing something, and we allow little time to practice stillness and calm.

 When we're at work, we fantasize about being on vacation; on vacation, we worry about the work piling up on our desks. We dwell on intrusive memories of the past or fret about what may or may not happen in the future. We don't appreciate the living present because our "monkey minds," as Buddhists call them, vault from thought to thought like monkeys swinging from tree to tree.

 What does it mean to live totally in the here and now? It means that your awareness is totally focused on the here and now. You're not worrying about the future or thinking of the past. When you live in the here and now, you're living where life is occurring. The past and future are fantasies, they don’t exist. As the saying goes “tomorrow never comes”. Tomorrow is solely a concept, tomorrow is always waiting to come round the corner, but around that corner are shadows, never to have light shed on, as time is always now. If you’re not living in the here and now,

 you’re living in fantasy. That seems to be a pretty great reason to live in the here and now, doesn’t it?

 When something does not work out or something does not happen, it does not mean it will never happen. It may mean that you are not ready for it and that you still need to grow and mature as a person.

 It is better to always look at things differently, when you miss the bus from work or school always consider what if that bus is going to be involved in an accident, if your friends forget to invite you out for the evening do not sit and feel miserable for missing out.

 If you’re living in the here and now, you’re living in acceptance. You’re embracing life as it is now, not as how you wish it would have been. When you’re living in acceptance, you recognize everything is complete as it is. You may forgive yourself for the errors you’ve made, and you may have peace in your heart recognizing that everything that should happen will

. The worst part about living in the past or the time to come is that you’re abandoning your personal might. If you’re not living today, you’re abandoning your life. You’re giving up your might to create. If there are alterations you’d like to make in life, it’s best to do it today.

 If you’re living in the past, you can’t do anything about it, it’s deceased. If you’re fretting about the time to come, you’re living in some place that doesn’t exist. It hasn’t occurred yet. If you wish to alter your life, the only place you may do it is in the here and now.

 But first you have to accept life as it is. When it comes down to it your brain is the only thing keeping you from living in the here and now.

 In order for us to live in the here and now, does this mean we have to abandon our innate desire to write our personal story and share it with other people? No, we shouldn’t trade one extreme for another. What we truly want is to discover balance.

 Always accept the things you cannot change that will help avoid disappointments, change the things you cannot accept by either working harder or turning to the alternative and always be careful in knowing the difference. Appreciate the little things in life before you crave for bigger and better that way you know life can be good before all the other big changes and always expect less or nothing to avoid disappointments.

RAMMANI