THE POWER OF NOW

How much attention do we pay to the power of now?

I have an acquaintance who is forever talking about her death. Not especially with a sense of dread - more one of relish. It seems to be almost her favorite topic and has been for years. She has her funeral planned down to the last detail and talks about it to anyone who will listen.

This all seems very sad to me, as in constantly looking ahead to her eventual death she is forgetting to live. She certainly isn't living in the now, as Eckhart Tolle so unforgettably recommends in his international bestseller THE POWER OF NOW.

Living in the present is the best way to live, but how many of us achieve this? Eckhart tells us we can free ourselves from our minds by 'watching the thinker' - listening to the voice in our head and being there as the witnessing presence. In this way we gradually separate our deeper self from our thought process. And we can release ourselves from our known past as well as from fears of our unknown future.

We can simply be - finding joy in each moment and knowing that our 'now' is all that truly counts.