The future creates irrational and spontaneous reactions within humans as we start creating assumptions, stories, and plans as we begin to see shadows of objects and shapes. We make monsters of these shapes and create unnecessary plans and exhaust our emotions the process. We try to read the future when it’s discernable, we plan for the things that can’t be planned, and we try to react to things that never happened. Though through it all we realize that we have a pathetic ability to discern and predict the future, we still react to and are emotionally affected by the creeping notion of the future. The notion that happiness will be contained in the future is a mere illusion, of which we become foolishly blind to all that makes up the present moment through the worst case scenarios and the what-ifs that are created in the mind. Our inclination to stay on the past and forward thinking of the future is based on the premises of fear of not being in control; not being able to go back to the past and not being entirely certain of what’s going to happen in the future. Tomorrow, today will be yesterday and tomorrow will be today. By the nature of time where tomorrow will shift to become today, we demystify the notion that we are powerless in the face of the future, as the future will become the present moment in a point in time. On the basis that tomorrow will also eventually become yesterday, we can fundamentally note that time converges through yesterday, today, and tomorrow and the essence of our very existence is made up in the present moment. . When we allow the past and future to reinforce our fear, we are sitting inside on a sunny day preparing for the storm of the future, limiting the control that we have through our own perception. At this moment you are breathing the air of the world and in this moment only does life exist, and only in this moment do you have the ability to influence. To commit to the present moment is to accept our inability to control the future and accept that many of our fears and reactions are just what they are, thoughts and emotions that are irrationally internalized and later believed. We will never be void of distractions and temptations to look into the future rather than remembering that we are in the present and by looking ahead, essentially tainting the future by leaving a sense of expectation for what it would hold and are disappointed or emotionally drained when this results otherwise. Acknowledge that indeed we have no sense what the forthcoming holds, but the painting of the present moment will remain incomplete without mindfulness and the paint will become dry by tomorrow; and for that the moment must be seized and the artist must paint with confidence in the brush stroke, for a paint stroke will remain clear and intentional only without the hesitation in the hand of tomorrow. Begin seeing each moment as an artwork, a masterpiece and paint with intent. Namaste, -Forrest Curran
Posted on: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 13:35:42 +0000
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