True we can bring to this moment the past for its memories and regrets and joys once felt, etc. True we may consider futures when things will be better or worse. I can give examples of snarky ways of viewing the future and the past as well as romanticized views of the past and the future while all those ways are here and now in the present as I consider them and feel them.
Now is where we always are, for sure. We may think we live in the past or we may be anxious about the future but This Moment Is Now and is paramount. Without This Moment there would be no pasts or presents.
So - it is all in this moment.
When we consider the pasts we have experienced we remember them with today's eyes and sometimes we color them rosie and sometimes black. When we consider the future we may worry with fears or hope for the best with joyful expectations. In any case we just don't absolutely experience the past or the future since they are either gone or not yet here and it is how we think and feel NOW that colors the other times. If we are well rested and optimistic and with resources we may look back with nostalgia and forward with happiness expected. If we are tired and pessimistic and poor and hungry and oppressed with troubles then what was past will not necessarily help us as we consider a future with anxiety and fears.
NOW is NOW and our being here how is most real no matter our circumstance. In the absolutely specific moment of now we can feel the pricks of pain or joy or hunger or poverty, etc... or a combination of each of those or others. We can also focus on individual feelings and thoughts in each moment. We can concentrate and notice and think and feel about some specific thing AND THEN LET IT GO TO MOVE ON TO THE NEXT.... The next moment. The next feeling. The next thought. The next stimulus from outside us such as the news, for instance, or our regrets or hopes or memories or expectations. The point is ... notice all and move on to the next things to notice as there is a lot in the world for all of us to think about and feel.
The thing NOT to do is GRASP onto anything. Do not grasp the bad as the pain when held becomes suffering. Do not grasp the good as things change and get worse and better. The truth is now and the truth is to a large extent a choice we can make. We can choose to worry or fear or hope or expect and in the end what will be will be and then it will change. Our primary choice is to live and move and continue AND stay open to what is happening. If this moment is terrible move to another moment and hopefully it will be better. It will be different even if you bring worry and negativity to it from your heart. If this moment is wonderful you will find yourself in the next moment and even if you are positive the next moment may bring sorrow. And then then next moment will come ... and you will either bring to the new moments personal negativity or positivity and all the time the new moments will have their own colors of hopes and fears to be experienced for what they are. So we can bring, by choice, optimism or pessimism really This Moment Will Change how we feel if we stay open to now. Then not grasping and holding on to the good, the bad, or the ugly allows us to move on.
Stay open. Be open. Do not hold on and grasp the good or the bad. Things change all the time. Now is different from when I began this sentence. Now is NOW.
I feel good. I feel productive as I have written this ... for the purpose of being helpful. I hope it is helpful. I know we all need help. I know we all get help and give help and our connections bring all kinds of things to our souls, our hearts, our minds. There is pain and suffering and joy and love and peace and war and, basically - good and bad... Our experiences of all this make us humans and grow our humanity and our connections let us share and support each other.... NOW.
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