Yes, it was SO helpful for me, too, to stay in TODAY. NOW. Without tying it to the future (will it be this way forever?) or the past (ah - I've been here before!). That made a huge difference for me, to be in the moment. I started a zen meditation practice about 5 years ago. I used to, every time I messed up, or slid downward, think of the current situation as somehow tied to every other time I'd messed up or gotten down. Then it was SO overwhelming, and I couldn't think of how it - or I - could change. By being in the moment, each time I felt down was *just* that time, each time I fell down, I could pick myself up and figure out how to go on. When I stopped seeing it as a lifelong pattern, I reacted differently. |