Ever notice how much time the mind spends in the future?
Tomorrowโs meeting
Next weekโs deadline
An upcoming conversation
A health concern
A financial situation
Something that might happen
Or might notโฆ
And while the mind is busy travelling aheadโฆ
life is happening here.
The interesting thing is that many of the situations we worry about never unfold the way we imagined.
Some never happen at all.
Others arrive in completely different ways.
Yet the mind keeps returning to the same habit.
Travelling into the future!! โ๏ธ
Trying to predict
Trying to prepare
Trying to control what hasnโt happened yet
But most of those future moments are not available right now.
THIS moment is.
The breath
The room
The person in front of you
The task already in your hands
๐ฏ Today: Notice when the mind travels into the future. โ๏ธ
Not to stop it
Just to notice it
Then gently ask:
โWhat is actually here right now?โ
And return your attention to that.
Sometimes the quickest way back to the NOW is simply noticing that youโve left it...