All I Have Is Now

Having spent too little of my conscious and unconscious time in the Present Moment, I now strive to do that. I am influenced by my past, but am also influenced by my future through anticipation about what might happen then, along with any related fear and anxiety. So, though I know that the Future does not yet exist, my thoughts about it affect me in the NOW. The Past and the Future do flow together for me in the Whirlpool that is the Present Moment. I carry in me the legacy of what I did, felt, thought in the past. My anticipations, fears, anxieties about the future strongly affect me NOW. I seek to dispel these thoughts by continuously telling myself that, just as any feelings I now have about events in the past will not change the past, fears and anxieties about the future will not change the future. So maybe now I can approach both my Past and my Future with an openness, an inclusiveness, an acceptance, by simply taking more time having a long loving look at what IS. Love, John Chuchman