Are you uncertain about your future? Are you unsure about what direction you are going in life? Not sure what you are going to do 6 months from now, a year from now, or 5 years from now? Me neither. Good thing we dont have to worry about that. The quality of your future depends on the quality of your consciousness in THIS moment. Right now. Your whole life is just a continuation of right now. The future is literally just an extension of this moment. In fact, it IS this moment but experienced in a different environment, with different contents, and from a different point of view. Its the same Now. Its not some abstract realm we step into down the line. There is no such thing as your future. The future is just a mental projection of a hypothetical present moment. When I was in school for philosophy prior to making my website and back when my page was still relatively small, my mind would chat with itself about how I am going to make a living for myself. I had absolutely no idea. How was I going to be happy, joyous, and content with my life when I had absolutely no idea what I was going to do with it? How was I going to live a successful life? During this time, I was also practicing mindfulness obsessively. That is when the thought dawned on me The future is just this moment extended in time. If I want to be happy and content for the rest of my life, all I have to do is be happy and content now. My life changed when I stopped worrying and starting living in the Now. Just focus on the quality of your thoughts and emotions in this moment. Remember, success is measured in happiness, not in wealth. Of course there are times where it is necessary to plan, anticipate, and imagine the kind of future we want for ourselves, but there is a huge difference between constructively thinking in the present moment about a future present moment, and obsessively dwelling in a mental thought-world that we cause ourselves anxiety and depression over. Treat THIS moment as an end in itself, and as the only moment you ever have to work with and live within. Youll notice a weight lifted off immediately the minute you drop the belief that there is something to be obtained in a moment other than this one. Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Jesus, Matthew 6: 25-34
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 23:09:32 +0000
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