What's the trick to living in the moment?

Answer 1

Awareness

Answer 2

Not sure if this is a good idea.
Most animals "live in the moment" ie they have no real idea of being,of reason, imagination etc. Some really dumb people are like that you see them having no idea of the results of their actions.
What I think you mean is how to avoid the fear/anxiety of being. Anxiety of death and fate, judgement and condemnation,emptyness and meaningless ie to livre life to your fullness.
Pretty big question for this forum!
Many relgions would claim to be able to help (some might).
A lot of the worlds great philosphys have tried to work on this as well.
I have to say that you are already ahead of the game on this by actually bothering to investigate. Good luck I think it can be done.

Answer 3

The trick? Just be selfish, and think of nothing but your own bliss, pleasure, satiety, no one but your body and what pleasures it, no other time but now, since there is no tomorrow, and the past , well, that is a "dim" concept that you are not aware of.Truth is, no one lives for the moment.
People simply get"caught" in the moment, unexpectedly, unplanned and this moment is a rare gift of a time suspension when everything falls together and all is well..

Answer 4

the trick to living in the moment is learning from the past and hoping for the future
that answer ur question??

Answer 5

I find it very hard to live in the here and now, always thinking ahead and reviewing the past! I find I have to make an effort and just affirm what I am doing right now and put everything else to one side. Even now I am thinking I will go and do this other thing before 1 and then get ..... `cos I forgot yesterday! I am on yhoo answers and I`m going to enjoy doing this for another half hour and then.......

Answer 6

It is in realizations that take place when momentarily thought processes are suspended due to some powerful intervention, or presence of something more fundamentally important to our being - as thoughts are just the way our essential being interacts mainly with the material world around that is structured upon realities of time and space. The realisations higher than thoughts however could take place within moments when people, for instance, fall in love, when they see something awe inspiring and majestic, when they feel spontaneously intensely about things of great value or when they are in a state of deep meditation.

If you pause a moment then you could realised that there is no time future just your vital concerns about what will happen next that in turn is derivative of you knowledge of what already took place. In this sense our past is the future that we ultimately live in. What I am right now is in fact what I was just moment ago, I am never from any time future but from the past that is now. I know as I live through the days, moths and years of my life to come, in conventional temporal sense that I will change to become different person, and then so will my past - strictly speaking there is nothing coming to an absolute end that was once realised to commence sometimes in the past; things keep going, they keep changing in our perception as we learn new facts about them and seen their previously unseen aspects.

The moment that is now is not a fraction of time that we have for ourselves to think, to breath in, or even to realise what it is, it is in truest sense the fact closest to the truth of our being. It is timeless presence of our soul, whereas the time perceived through our five senses is like a river in constant and steady flow, a constant change. And there is nothing in time that we can ever capture to and to examine. The moment present that you might realise only allegorically and analogically is just a new realisation of the same self, as a state of alertness beyond grips of time. The present moment is in fact denial of time as it is the acceptance of being unaffected by changes and alterations. Our experience of time signifies that there is something central to us most innate to our being, something that never changes, which is why we notice time passing at all.

And if you mean by ‘living in the moment’ in terms of enhancing your physical mental abilities, in order to focus better and stay alert and still relaxed, then try going along with time smoothly and nicely, try noticing things around you keenly, things that obey time perfectly well which also includes your bodily and brain functions. You could observe falling of leaves, blossoming of flowers, coming of seasons, passing of people on the street, songs of birds from various directions, gentle trepidations of stars, subtle rising of the Moon, the pauses between each beat of you heart, the sound of your children playing, they all make wonder teachers in the academy of time where we learn to respect it and value it first of all then use it to the best of our ability, wisdom and intent.

Answer 7

No daydreaming of the future, no dwelling on the past.
Now that isn't possible but you can reduce that kind of thinking to a minimum and live now.
The thought process has to go hand in hand with action. You think in the presence and act on your thinking.
That's the best way I can explain it.

Answer 8

Maybe this theory will work for you:
A dog, lives in the NOW state...doesn't remember yesterday and tomorrow isn't here yet...so dogs don't concern themselves with things they cannot change. Live is this now moment ....

Answer 9

being yourself at the exact time of your existence.if your not who you are at the moment that passes then who are you?tomorrow is a maybe but now is a reality.

Answer 10

one day at a time, and I constantly think about my baby son who is one on xmas eve x