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Living in this Moment
Right now, at this moment, how are you feeling?
One of the key tenets of the practice of mindfulness is being in the now. Rather than looking back to the past or forward to the future, often subconsciously, you put yourself in the now, consciously.
When you are conscious of where you are, what you are doing, and what you are thinking and feeling that is practicing mindfulness. Mindfulness is awareness, primarily of yourself…but that also better opens you to be mindful of the world around you, too.
And I don’t mean “the world” as in the broad, wide world at large. This is not about the big picture and the abstract, disconnected matters that beg for your attention. This is specifically about mindfulness of your immediate surroundings. The environment in which you are in right now.
This moment, as you are reading this, is one-of-a-kind. It is unique. And it will never happen again. To be sure, you will likely have moments like this moment, close and extremely similar to this moment, but it is going to soon be in the past and will not be experienced in the exact same way again.
This can be good because it means when bad things do happen they can and will pass. If this moment is a bad moment it will end and be no more. But that also means that if this moment is a great moment…
