Looking to the future can provide hope, especially through difficult times.
Reflecting on the past can also provide healing and closure.
Focusing on either one obsessively, however, quickly becomes deteriorating to our mental and emotional health.
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Updated 7 years ago,August 21, 2018
Wonder and curiosity chase the future.
Reflection and contemplation encompass the past.
The present, however, is often lost on us.
Looking to the future can provide hope, especially through difficult times.
Reflecting on the past can also provide healing and closure.
Focusing on either one obsessively, however, quickly becomes deteriorating to our mental and emotional health.
It will take true mindfulness to reshape these thought patterns.
Your subconscious mind is responsible for this seemingly intuitive kind of response.
Your subconscious gathered enough information to be able to guide you into making the right choice.
Despite the influential subconscious mind, we still have the ability to make conscious choices.
However, this often involves an active decision on your part to focus on the present moment.
Youve probably heard the phrase, What you put into an experience, you get out of an experience.
In reality, the present is all that exists.
Most people struggle with change to a certain extent, and want to feel in control.
The present is all that really exists, and the future is actually here, right now.
One way to combat this mental anxiety is purely tosavorthemomentas it is happening.
Psychologists call this savoring.
Its no coincidence that we have an easier time savoring moments when were traveling alone.
Its easier to be present in the moment without distractions.
Active Engagement
Time is a strange concept to grasp.
Sometimes we are fully aware of its presence when things are progressing slowly.
We press on for time to speed up and move forward.
Engagement can look differently for everyone.
This could mean developing greater awareness and consistent observations about the people and environment we are in.
A remedy for this kind of stagnancy may sound contradictory, but it is actually to do nothing.
We touch-base with our emotions and honest desires, which should never be ignored.
Living in the moment entirely cannot take place without some relationship to the past.
In other words, we must let the past go.
We alter our consciousness when we let these pains into our very core, changing the way we think.
Internal healing comes by letting go of these things that either hold us captive, or set us free.
