GeorgieO Watch where your focus is!

It's hard to find the balance between reflecting & ruminating. Still working on it!

 

Right now I´m reading an Eckhart Tolle book, and it´s about how and why you should try to live in "now" and not in "yesterday" or "tomorrow". The more I read, the more I understand the whole point of living with your mind in the present, before I had a bit of a problem fully understandning even though I read a few books about mindfulness and such.

At least for me, all the yesterday and tomorrow thoughts has really brought the biggest stress, anger and sadness and the more I start living in the present, the more I feel that I get a release from those dark emotions, since they can´t take my focus if I´m concentrating on what I´m doing right at this moment. When you need it, you step out of the present and use the "yesterday" and "tomorrow" to plan your life, but as soon as you don´t need it to manage your life practically, you step back into the present again. It´s surprising how little time you need outside the present to be able to live!

I recommend to take a look at som of Tolles books!

 

I read The Power of Now several months into my TMS journey and it really opened my eyes. I discovered that the past equals Conditioning/ triggers and the future equals Fear and anxiety . Fear and Conditioning are the fuel for TMS, so if you can live more in the Now you can help banish TMS pain.

Sounds like you are on to something Linnea

 

I had a therapist about 7 years ago who kept recommending that book, "The Power of Now". I did get it and read quite a bit of it back then, but found the book to be a difficult read. Guess I wasn't ready. I have since started reading it again because I know that the concept it crucial to me freeing myself from this pain. That's why I took up yoga and meditation last summer. It teaches you mindfulness...living in the present moment. Unfortunately, for me it's difficult trying to break a lifelong habit of worry, fear, anxiety, and guilt. I've gotten so good at it!

 

It´s Power of Now I´m reading! At my library theres also an extended version of this book, with excersises, meditation instructions, I´m going for that one after this, I´m pretty excited about this haha

Good Honeybear, I think that mindfulness really is the key if you´re having a lot of anxiety. I found the Tolle book a bit hard the first 30 pages, then it started to get clearer and clearer, as he repeats his thoughts over and over again, and answers a lot of the questions that arises when you read the first chapters. But I don´t think you have to understand everything, just the point of living in the present.

 

I think with that book you can revisit it several times and each time it brings something new. Honeybear I would recommend reading the Presence Process by Michael Brown, in my opinion it goes nicely with The Power of Now and it's a much easier read.