How often have you eaten a meal and not really tasted it, or completed a chore or drove to work without really thinking about it?Our days often pass us by while our minds are elsewhere.One of my favorite methods of finding happiness and preventing stress is living in the moment — No one actually lives in the moment all the time — I don’t think it’s possible. Some, with practice, can learn to live in the moment for longer than most of us, but there will always be times when you’re worried about the future or thinking about the past, and forget to be in the moment.Being in the moment isn’t as easy as it sounds.It takes practice. But it can be achieved at times. To help inspire you to live in the moment, here are 2 great examples:
1. Children. There’s no one better at being present than a child. I love to watch my neighbor's son. He’s not thinking about what happened to him yesterday, or what he’s going to do later today. He’s Spiderman, and he’s fighting the bad guys, and nothing else in the world exists. If he gets mad about something, he overreacts, and nothing else in the world matters but what has upset him. But he’ll cry about it, and then soon return to normal, happy again, the offending situation forgotten without a grudge. He has no cares about tomorrow, and for that, I love to watch him. We need to use children as inspiration, and try to be like them sometimes. Jesus instructed us, “Be as a child,” and those were wise words.
2. Yourself, lost in something. You’ve been in the moment plenty of times. Can you remember a time when you lost yourself in a task? Not lost in thought, but lost in the doing of the task itself — you were concentrating fully, you thought of nothing else. The world disappeared. It might have been work — you might have achieved that state of mind known as “flow” — or it could have been a hobby, playing sports, fixing something, anything. Try to remember a time like that, and replicate it.
So, I would request all of you to start living in the moment. You must have heard :
Tomorrow is mystery
Today is God's gift to you....
That is why it's called 'The Present' !!!
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