I've been doing yoga as of late, as well as been studying Buddhism for the past few years. If there is one thing I'm learning, it is how supremely difficult it is to just live in the moment and focus only on what is going on in the now. We are so consumed with yesterday and tomorrow, that today is just a formality to focus on what happened yesterday and obsess on what might happen tomorrow.
When I was trying to do the present-moment thinking just studying Buddhism alone, I literally could not quiet my mind at all. I tried but it was impossible. Once I added in the yoga practice, I now find myself able to do it all the time. It's taken about two months of yoga to get my brain to where it relaxes enough to do so, but just living presently is like being high for as long as it lasts. No worries or cares or desires exist in that space. It really is amazing, even if it only lasts for thirty second increments. I'm hoping that I'm working my mind toward being able to live that way more and more often for longer periods of time before the racket interrupts again.
Anyone experience this here?
When I was trying to do the present-moment thinking just studying Buddhism alone, I literally could not quiet my mind at all. I tried but it was impossible. Once I added in the yoga practice, I now find myself able to do it all the time. It's taken about two months of yoga to get my brain to where it relaxes enough to do so, but just living presently is like being high for as long as it lasts. No worries or cares or desires exist in that space. It really is amazing, even if it only lasts for thirty second increments. I'm hoping that I'm working my mind toward being able to live that way more and more often for longer periods of time before the racket interrupts again.
Anyone experience this here?