How Does “Be Here Now” Connect You to Mindfulness?
The only time that’s real, where you have any control at all, is now.
Right now, this moment, is the only place in time that’s actually, factually, real. The past has come and gone. The future is yet to unfold. Only the now is real. Only this moment can be lived and experienced consciously.
Lots of people try to go back to the past. They want to return to a time that they remember. Of course, their memory of that time is thoroughly imperfect. Often, how you remember the past being includes your biases and prejudices, and frequently, it’s not at all how you remember it.
More than that, the past cannot be changed. You can’t undo it, redo it, do it over, or in any other way alter it. It’s done, over, and unchangeable.
On the other side there’s the future. You can plan, plot, idealize, strive for, and do all kinds of things to find and/or build a future. However, there are also an almost infinite number of uncertainties that can and will alter the future from your vision of it. Some of these are great, some not at all. You cannot know the future, and while you can (and in many ways should) set goals and do things where the results will occur in the future, you won’t know it until you arrive at it.
