Stuck Living In The Past & Future? How To Break Free From Your Mental Shackles.

My mom was afraid she would be in a car accident.

My parents were driving to visit my sister for the Fourth of July weekend in North Carolina. The day before, she became anxious, “he’s a terrible driver,” “what if he get’s in a wreck?” She was worried about something that may never happen.

She was building internal pressure, likely to explode in a cloud of misery.

I looked at my mom and said, “you’re worried about something tomorrow that may never occur. You’re giving up this moment, right now, for nothing definitive. Be here, right now. Let tomorrow be tomorrow.”

Don’t let the past and future control your life today.

It’s okay to peek back into the past and prepare for the future, but a constant obsession over it every day is unhealthy. You begin to live unconsciously.

To overcome this, you must first tap into your present-moment awareness. You have to be aware of what you’re doing, that the past and future consume your mind.

“That conscious recognition allows you to see the worry response and attachment to the past objectively instead of being caught up on the emotional story,” teaches Deepak Chopra.