How to be in the moment? how to be really in the moment and stop thinking about the future or past? How to be aware of what is going on and simply enjoy the present moment? the answer is very simple... face the pain and don't delay.
People don't want to be in the moment because they are feeling the discomfort now, that is why they want to jump into the future or some other time to end the suffering now. Doing that will only increase the pain, it will only make the suffering even more. For example, if they have a problem now... they want to end it as fast as they can, they don't want to be involve with the process. They want to jump into the future and go to the most comfortable place that they can be, they don't want to face the pain.
If you want to be in the moment don't think about the future, face the pain, face the process, don't wish that your suffering will end so fast. If you do that then your problems will become even bigger. Face it and don't wish for a comfortable life, being in the moment means you will embrace all the feelings and what is going on with your life now. You will never ask for a more comfortable position, you will never complain about how you feel. You will never try to escape nor try to hide, you will embrace everything including the baddest emotion that you can ever feel.
Another cause of not being in the moment is DELAY. You delay things because you don't want to think about your problems. For example, you have a task that you must do, the deadline is so tight and your client is really mad. Instead of doing it right away, you find excuses to not do it. Excuses such as you have a headache, there is no internet, your dog got sick and any other funny excuses that is only making the situation worse. You think you are lessening the pain by doing it, the truth is you are only extending the pain, you think you're going to do it later or tomorrow... there is a big chance that you will still not do it because you already think that you're excused.
Being in the moment means facing every problem, challenges or discomfort in life. You don't think about the future, you don't try to delay things. You will just do it now, face it now and solve it now. No excuses are accepted.
One more truth is... you are only in the moment if you are happy, you are losing your mind and not attentive when you have a problem.
If you are happy, you see things, you hear things and you don't want to fast forward the time. You even want to stop the time and stay with the moment.
But if you have a problem, your mind is flying, you don't want to be in the moment anymore, you want to go to another place or jump into another time. So the key here is... just try to be happy while solving your problems, just find the happy thoughts while you are in pain.
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