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Why It’s Important to Connect With the Present Moment
We look to the past or the future, thinking that the present moment isn’t enough, when really it’s all we need.
I’m at my happiest when I’m able to appreciate the present moment — completely immersed in the smells, sights, and sounds of everything that’s around me — but despite knowing this I spend so much of my time lost in my head, feeling like I need to dwell on the past or fixate on the future, feeling like the present moment isn’t enough.
When I’m at one with my lived experience, I’m not lost in my mind and subject to the various negative emotions that thinking about the past or the future can cause me. As Eckhart Tolle says:
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present.” Eckhart Tolle (The Power of Now: A Guide To Spiritual Enlightenment)
“Psychological time” is rendered obsolete when I’m at one with the present moment; I just took a break from typing this article and sipped on my coffee, my mind drifted back to events that occurred earlier in the day, my sister had an epileptic seizure, sadness overcame me, I thought to the future; what if my sister’s seizures get worst? What if she has to be hospitalized or, worse still, she has a seizure that she…
