How many times have you noticed your mind drifting back and forth between the past, present and future?
Think not? Have you ever regretted something? Mind is in the past? Ever been anxious about something? Mind is in the future. You know what is so amazing about the mind, although it exists with you in the here and now, the present, it has the uncanny ability to transcend time and space by being able to project itself back into time and forward into the future. How cool is that?
ADD? That is the mind's inability to deal with the Present. How many of us are guilty of this? An inability to be 100% totally present? But you say, "I am present."
Do you multi-task? Carry on more than one conversation at a time. Do anything other than the ONE THING you are doing with ABSOLUTE attention? Then you are not present. You are somewhere else? You are not in the present. For to be totally in the present requires that you be totally there on what you are doing.
For example. as I am writing this. I am "aware" of all the things I have to do "tomorrow." But for now, I am immersed in the music in the background and the screen upon which these words are being written. Nothing else matters to me at this moment in time. Not the sales of tomorrow, the phone calls I have to make, nothing.
Once you experience the absolute intoxicating ambrosia of the Present, you will never go back to the past again or worry about the future. Why? Because when your tomorrow comes, it will be your NOW. Think about it? In your entire life all YOU have ever experienced is the now! Now, your mind may have played recordings of the past or projections of the future, but truth be known,, the only place WE can exist is in the NOW. Our minds may wonder from past, present to future, but where we are is always where we are. We are Present.
So, how do we get out of our present situation if we don't like it? Great question. Here's how. Accept it! That's right, accept it. Most people have a problem with there current situation because they want to be anywhere else EXCEPT where they are now. And in some cases, I don't blame you. But the truth of the matter is, "you are where you are." Just like a superhero being in a tight situation which they have to get out, you are in "your situation." So what are you going to do about it? Fight it? Resent it? Complain about it? Or DO SOMETHING about it?
You see, once you accept your current situation as YOUR SITUATION, you have the power to do something about it. It is only when we take a look at where we are and accept that this is where we are that we can ever make a positive change. Most people deny where they are. Drug where they are. Drink where they are or get mad at where they are. But that will not change the situation. The only thing that will change the situation, is changing the situation. And to do that, we must accept the situation as our own.
So in closing. If you are in a place where you feel you don't want to be here are a couple of questions:
1. How present are you?
2. What are you doing to actively take responsibility to change the situation? Or are you just complaining about it and doing nothing. For things to change YOU must make a change.
3. How willing are you to accept this as your "CURRENT SITUATION"?
One of the greatest things about SuperHeros? They always asses and analyze their current situation to look for the best way to get out. What about you? SuperHeros have bad days. They get lazy. They don't want to workout our eat clean. But the one thing that separates a SuperHero from common folk; A SuperHero is always willing to look for a solution.
Not happy with were you are? Be a SuperHero. Asses your situation and find a way to get out. Find a solution. And if you don't have one; focus more on the present because the answers to all the problems we face NOW are not in the past or the future but in the NOW.
Be well.