NOW

Anxiety and stress often stem from things we cannot control, i.e., things that have happened and things that have yet to happen. The great thing about things that have already happened is that you cannot change the actual event, but you can change where you go from that event and how you interpret it. Most importantly you can learn from things that have happened. Life is a continual growing process marked by constant learning and personal growth. To learn nothing from where we have been would make where we are going mindless wandering. Conversely, stress and anxiety that stems from things yet to happen are easily relieved when a person considers that these things have not happened yet. In other words, the event or stressor has not occurred and may, or may not happen the way you are thinking about it, so why be anxious about something that hasn’t happened yet? To that end I argue that keeping a present state of mind helps to relieve much of the tension we experience in our daily lives. Keeping our mind in the NOW, we are able to focus on the things that are happening the moment they happen.