Do you Live in the Moment?

 

Do you Live in the Moment?

As we go through life and start observing ourselves, we find out where we are actually living. This may sound strange – most of us live in the past and some live in the future and a very few, rare individuals live in the moment.

All of us go through the motions of living, we all get an education, get a job, a career, get married, settle down and try to be successful and happy. Many of us do well in life as far as the society goes but how many of us are truly happy! Very few will be able to say that. Most of us live in our minds and our minds are always living in the past or in the future.

99% of the time the thoughts of the past are negative. We remember only the bad incidents in our live and relive them every time we think about them. With thoughts of the future, we are basically dreaming of either how to earn more money, do well in one’s career, how to get a new house, car, etc or it is about how to get back at someone for not doing right by you!

So, technically we are living in the past or in the future – and all this is in our minds. Our minds are so powerful that we really do not have control over it and the thought process kind of overwhelms us. When this happens, we are filled with stress, sometimes headaches, sometimes migraine, etc.

If we learn to live in the moment and stop worrying about the past or the future then we could become truly stress-free and happy. The way to do that is through meditation. You could start with yoga if your body does not allow you to sit still for half an hour at a stretch. Once your body is capable of sitting for half an hour at a stretch, start meditating. If you can meditate under the guidance of a realised Master your progress will be much faster. With the progress you will slowly start living in the moment, you will notice that your thoughts do not vacillate as much as they did before from the past to the future. You then start living in the moment, with that all your worries disappear, you become positive and happy. So, meditate – live in the moment.