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Originally Posted by Max Power  How often do you spend your day regretting the past or worrying about the future? It's a mind trap for sure, because while you're doing that, the present (the only place you can exist) is busy just being present. |
Have you ever thought of it this way? The past and future only exist as thoughts and thoughts only exist in the present moment. That means the past and future are part of the present moment and don't really exist in terms of time. Past and future are only thoughts that we can only have in the present moment. I tend to think it's ok to have thoughts about the past and future - that by itself is not taking me out of the present.
The problem comes when these thoughts of past or future contain regret or fear. Past thoughts can have regret and future can have fear. So it's the quality of these thoughts or the attachments to emotions of past and future that bogg us down.
In other words, remembering something cool in my past is actually good for my now moment. Thinking about something being positive in the future is good for my now moment.