43 C OMMON C ON D I T I ON S T H AT C AU S E U S T O L E AV E T H E P R E S E N T MOM E N T WORRY Do you often find yourself worrying about things you can’t do much about, and most certainly, nothing in that very moment? Going repeatedly over the possible scenarios of what can go wrong, what has gone wrong before and creating vivid images of what will be if things go the way you think they might? We often are taught to expect the worst. We will talk more about what we can do about worrying in another chapter. BOREDOM Nothing seems to keep your attention. Your mind wanders to far off places where excitement and adventure abound. Or perhaps to something nice and dramatic like the juicy gossip you heard last week. You feel what you are doing is a waste of time. Simply put, you’re leaving the present moment because you are bored. Finding new ways to challenge yourself and stretch the limits of your abilities and possibilities will keep you present, even in the most mundane of moments. When we are not stimulated enough in any areas of our personal or business lives we begin to get bored with everything. Keeping new and challenging experiences in our worlds will keep us feeling more alive, stimulated and ultimately present to everything. MISALIGNMENT WITH WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO US If we can’t see how a situation aligns with what is important to us, we tend to not be present to it. Our attention begins to wander towards things that are in our scope of interest. It is important to seek out situations and experiences that are somehow, in the small or big picture, aligned with what is important to us. It is very difficult to be or remain present to people, situations, or things we cannot see the point in or identify with in some way. We will talk more about aligning with the things that are important in a later chapter.
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