The future, the past, the present.

We spend so much time either in the future or the past, so little time on this day, this hour, this minute, this moment. We hold close to ourselves memories of the past including the memory of bad experiences. This state of mind keeps us living in fear and therefore in the state of fight or flight mode. We may have had one bad experience but through keeping the memory of it alive, rather than letting it go and allowing ourselves to have peace, we continue to live it. The experience becomes part of our present in keeping it alive, reliving it, reinventing it, making it our story. Someone may have hurt you once but you hurt yourself again and again by reliving the experience in your mind. It is the past and when you let it go, you also let go the fight or flight mode you've been holding yourself in. You can relax and enjoy life more. You can begin to embrace life and yourself in the present moment. When all we do is look to the future our present passes us by all too quickly and we've missed the moment to enjoy ourselves now. Don't let life pass you by. Enjoy it now for all there is, is now. Embrace you in the moment.