Living in the present is a wonderful opportunity to be a little happier every day, because we enjoy the here and now. But how to achieve it? We offer you simple tips and tricks to forget about the past and stop thinking about the future.
There are many people who live day to day with fear, worry and fear. Fear for the future, for the fear of not knowing what tomorrow might bring. And with concern for not knowing to what extent they can act on it.
People who live each day in this way not only cannot enjoy the here and now, but by always living thinking about what might or might not happen to them in the not too distant future (or even quite far in time), this it prevents you from savoring the little things that life offers you in the present moment; indeed, in the here and now.
It is known that those people who enjoy the present moment without worry, and only dealing with what happens to them in the present moment, tend to live life in a much more relaxed and calm way. In fact, they tend to be much more optimistic, which in turn gives them a full life, and even longer than those people who are more pessimistic or negative.
Living in the present becomes a virtue, a true lifestyle in which there are no worries about what may happen in the future.
Forget about the past and not worry about the future
It is true that being afraid of the future is something extremely normal. Humans since ancient times have always tried to predict the future as a way to reduce the anxiety that we do not know what may happen to us tomorrow.
Not knowing it becomes a worry, which results in anxiety, stress and nervousness. We long to know the future when, however, we are not able to live in the present and enjoy every little moment.
But if worrying about the future is very simple, especially because it is a habit that we have maintained over the years, living in the present without worrying about the future can be somewhat complicated in the first moments, especially because it is a change of thoughts that cannot be done overnight.
It is also common not only that we worry about the future, but that we live anchored in the past. There are people who can spend their lives thinking about what they did and what could have happened if they had not done it, and they forget an important maxim: the past can only serve to learn lessons.
Therefore, the key from the first moment is to be aware that we want to change our mentality, maintaining – of course – the desire to achieve it and above all having a lot of patience.
Forget about the past
As its name suggests, the past is everything that happened in a non-present moment, but is not future either.
In this sense, the past can help us remember pleasant things when events or situations made us happy (we are faced with a positive past). But when we are faced with a painful past that hurt us, this negative past tends to be one of our greatest enemies when it comes to enjoying the present moment.
The key is to learn the lessons of the past, taking into account the mistakes so as not to repeat them and capture only what matters to us.
Don’t be afraid of the future
Being afraid of the future may be more common than you think. That, together with spending our lives waiting for something to happen to us, can be a clear impediment to living in the present.
Worse still is when the desire for something to happen to us becomes a concern, because not only do we live worried about something that we do not know will happen, but it prevents us from living the present moment with peace of mind.
How to live in the present and enjoy the here and now?
In order to live in the present, it is essential to forget about the past, especially those situations that harm us by remembering them and capturing only those lessons that life, with our mistakes and their situations, has taught us.
It is not advisable to feel fear of the future either, because it forces us to spend our lives worrying about something that ultimately we are not sure if it will happen or not.
We do have the certainty that the moment that accompanies us every minute is the present moment. And that, therefore, what we can do is forget about the past and not think about the future, keeping all our attention on what happens to us, we think and feel now.
What do you think and what do you want? Connect with your feelings and with your thoughts, with everything you feel at this moment. Little by little you will begin to enjoy the now and to live the present moment more fully.
