“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, there is no other life but this.”
Henry David Thoreau
When I go to bed at night, it's very normal for my mind automatically to hit rewind or fast-forward. Either events of the day begin to rise and fall involuntarily, or I think about what will be happening the following day. A trick I have learnt, or am trying to learn, is to keep my mind in the present which will ultimately, of course, facilitate sleep. When I find that I am no longer in the 'now', I try to gently bring my mind back by concentrating on the rise and fall of my breath.
Of course this doesn't always work - oh, if it could be so simple. But the past few nights this technique has definitely helped. Hooray.
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