Give yourself the gift of Now!!!

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift – that is why we call it the present.” Author unknown.

Live in the present moment. Pay?attention?to?and?appreciate?one's?current?situation?or?the?events?currently?happening?in?one's?life,?without?being?overly?focused?on?or?distracted?by?the?past?or?future.

Be content with who we are. Grounding is a term used in conjunction with the energy fields around us. Being grounded means that?we’re content with who we are. We’re sure of ourselves and have confidence in the decisions we make. Becoming grounded is about getting rid of excessive energy in the body, allowing clean energy to come through.

Be centred and grounded? It’s about being “in check” with what’s going on. Individuals who are centred are typically calm and peaceful. Grounding is a term used in conjunction with the energy fields around us. Being grounded means that we’re content with who we are. We’re sure of ourselves and have confidence in the decisions we make.

It is important to feel the season. When we really take a moment to feel the season with all our senses, we nourish ourselves. Align with the season and connect with a vital part of ourselves. Gain powerful insight into how we could be living. More in tune with the rhythm of nature. The more we align our lives with the seasons, the more easily our lives will flow.

It is important to live in correspondence with nature. We are reflections of nature and the universe, and it benefits us to live in correspondence with them. Do this, rather than fighting the huge momentum of those natural tendencies, and we are flowing with them. Things get easier. The seasons are a huge part of how nature guides our internal temperament.

Authors such as Ekhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra and Tony DeMello place much emphasis on the present moment. Because living in the past or future can be so detrimental.

The real problem with the past is that our subconscious mind lives there by default. This is a major problem because?psychology tells us that our subconscious mind (using the twin psychological "abilities" of automaticity and categorisation - more like disabilities actually!) dictates our automatic reactions and enables us to complete repetitive tasks without paying attention. Unfortunately, as we go through life and become accustomed to the people and places around us, everything becomes repetitive so we end up paying attention to nothing.

By paying so little attention to the present, our subconscious mind roams freely in a past long gone - thinking that it's the present. It uses past experiences - our "programs" from our formative years when we learned our beliefs in everything including ourselves - to dictate our current behaviour. How we behave now determines how people (who are buried in their own past) behave towards us and, as a result, our automatic behaviour creates our present everyday life.

Of course, we're completely unaware that any of this is going on because we're not paying attention!

Your conscious mind constantly wanders into the future. The average adult (most of us are average) has about 50,000 random thoughts each day, many of which are "what ifs"! The problem with a distracted mind is we lose focus on what we're supposed to be doing now. As a result, it becomes more of a burden, we become more frustrated.

Between our subconscious's old programming (which is generally skewed toward the negative) and worry about the future, we end up not being present to what is actually happening here and now. We pay little or no attention to now - and recent neuro-psychological work has proven that your ability to be successful (and experience?peace of mind) is directly linked to how much attention you're paying. By putting no energy into the present moment you get nothing in return!

Quantum physics tells us that this universe of ours is made up of energy and that energy responds to energy. Put almost no energy into being focused in the present and universal energy simply won't bother to respond to you - why should it, you haven't even bothered to turn up!

When you do pay more than 1% attention to the present moment, your experience changes. Athletes call it "the zone", the University of Chicago calls it "flow",?sports?people call it "focus", and business people call it "single-mindedness". We're at our best when our energy is focused on what we're doing - here and now. When we are in flow, things flow for us - we seem to be the right person in the right place at the right time. The famous psychologist Carl Yung called that "synchronicity" - quantum physics has proved how synchronicity works in proving that universal energy is responsive to intention and emotion.

If you channel more of your energy into "now", universal energy will respond now - these are scientific facts. Conversely, if my energy is "all over the place" (in the past and future) universal energy will give me a normal "not too bad" return on my pathetic 1% investment!

Looking at it from a psychological or physics perspective, the key benefit of the Now is this. If you are more present, you have a presence - which makes you more impressive and attractive. You will impress those around you because there's more of you present in the moment than everybody else. You will be more attractive to those around you for the same reason. Importantly, you will be more attractive to events as well (some people call it the?Law of Attraction).

Letting your subconscious live in the past - and letting your conscious mind wander - takes you away from the only time and place in which we have any influence - Now. You need to learn how to pay more attention to now, to engross yourself in what you're doing. It's easy -?meditation?can give you the mental discipline required - but you could start by simply doing a little more seeing, feeling, hearing, smelling and tasting of where you are, right here, right now.

Mindfulness?is?living?in?the?moment, a practice in which you acknowledge and accept where you are, what you are doing, the world around you and your thoughts, feelings and sensations, without judgment or reaction.

Live in the moment with mindfulness. Tell yourself that you are going to commit to living in the present moment. Say to yourself, “I will live the moments of my life. I will be present and mindful.” By setting the intention to be mindful, you are focusing your mind on one goal: To be in the moment with mindfulness.

Practice Mindfulness Meditation. One way to live more in the present moment is by practising mindfulness meditation.?This type of meditation helps people become aware and increase their concentration on what they are doing at any given time. Starting a daily meditation practice can help you become more aware of your thoughts and feelings, which can in turn increase the amount of time that you spend in the present moment.

How much of your life is lost either dwelling on the past or worrying about the future? When your thoughts are imprisoned by the past or fearful of the future, you can miss out on one of life’s greatest gifts: that which is happening today and indeed this very moment.