Learning to focus on the Now is so important. I just realized. The mind learns. It learns our habits, and it imitates them afterwards. If we practice Focus, it will focus. If we practice out-thinking, it will learn out-thinking.
Doing one thing and thinking about another is unfocus. You probably do not do the one well nor do you do the other. Perhaps more importantly, the behavior extends. It learns.
If you do one thing while thinking about another, you are probably more willing to invest your energy into that another. And so you drag the time, your thoughts, and your actions through it until you manage to reach that another. And during this time, the mind does one thing while thinking about another.
When you reach that another and manage to invest yourself upon it, you will, for a while, and then your mind will resume its learned pattern - to think about another. For it has learned to do so - it has learned to be bored of its present and to focus on another. So no matter what the Now is, it will learn to look forward to another.
Because in this ever-changing complex world, the mind has a single reliable point of reference: Yourself, Here, and Now. All other objects, tasks, places, times, weathers, people, thoughts, emotions, and concepts are relative and uncertain. So as a learning device, the mind can only distinguish the Yourself, Here and Now, and the rest of the world. Thus - Focus on your Now.
If you eat, focus on your food. If you rest, focus on your rest. If you think of your work while you eat, you wil learn to think of eating while you work. And you will accomplish neither adequately.
Focus on the Now, then, so that your mind is not pulled and dragged and waved like an unmanned sailboat in the storms of the world. Learn to be Here and be Now, to stay as a decisive rock, able and capable to move and turn to ITS own volition, Or learn to think about another.
Doing one thing and thinking about another is unfocus. You probably do not do the one well nor do you do the other. Perhaps more importantly, the behavior extends. It learns.
If you do one thing while thinking about another, you are probably more willing to invest your energy into that another. And so you drag the time, your thoughts, and your actions through it until you manage to reach that another. And during this time, the mind does one thing while thinking about another.
When you reach that another and manage to invest yourself upon it, you will, for a while, and then your mind will resume its learned pattern - to think about another. For it has learned to do so - it has learned to be bored of its present and to focus on another. So no matter what the Now is, it will learn to look forward to another.
Because in this ever-changing complex world, the mind has a single reliable point of reference: Yourself, Here, and Now. All other objects, tasks, places, times, weathers, people, thoughts, emotions, and concepts are relative and uncertain. So as a learning device, the mind can only distinguish the Yourself, Here and Now, and the rest of the world. Thus - Focus on your Now.
If you eat, focus on your food. If you rest, focus on your rest. If you think of your work while you eat, you wil learn to think of eating while you work. And you will accomplish neither adequately.
Focus on the Now, then, so that your mind is not pulled and dragged and waved like an unmanned sailboat in the storms of the world. Learn to be Here and be Now, to stay as a decisive rock, able and capable to move and turn to ITS own volition, Or learn to think about another.
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