Being in the Here and Now
Trying to be fully present and live in the here and now is not as simple as it sounds. For many months I have been trying to practice mindfulness, which in my simple understanding is being fully present to each moment of the day, and also being fully aware of what I am doing at the present moment. After months I am still trying to achieve this seemingly simple task! My struggles in this area tells me how often it is so easy for me to live in the past or the future and not remain in the here and now. Recently I attended a three-day conference on being fully present in the here and now. This conference focused on persons in leadership positions and how many times we have feelings, assumption, myths and how they usually become our beliefs and how I can act out of those beliefs. Many times, those beliefs are a fallacy or fantasy, because they began with the wrong hypothesis. This is how various forms of prejudices and ‘isms’ begins, namely; sexism, racism, ageism and ot