Hi, it's Andy here and welcome to Radio Headspace and to Tuesday morning.

So ordinarily I'm sat here talking about the present moment, right?

The importance of the present moment and how we can benefit from living a life being

less distracted by the past, the future and spending more time in the present.

The danger of that is that it sounds as though the past and the future are being excluded

in some way and they're really not.

It's essential sometimes that we sit and either reflect on the past or we look and plan

for the future and it's possible to do both from this position of being present.

The risk is losing our consciousness, if you like, as we drift backwards or forward,

where we are no longer present thinking about the future, we are simply in the future

in our mind, in a time and a place that hasn't exist, creating scenarios and thinking about

those things as though they are actually happening.

That's the risk and that's the danger, it's not that the past or the future is bad, it's

just that there is a risk that we get lost in thinking about these things that haven't

even happened yet or remembering these things in a different way than maybe that they

happened at the time.

So it's not that the present and the future is in opposition and that's really important

because the truth is when we look forward, we need to start shaping that right now.

It's only in the actions that we take right now that we'll be able to clearly move towards

a particular direction in time and that's true whether it's of us as individuals

in our life, in our personal life, our family life, work life, however you like to sort

of think about it.

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