In this lesson's episode, discover why humans are wired to think about the future

and how this instinct can create both opportunity and anxiety.

Learn how to distinguish ambitions driven by fear from those rooted in joy,

explore practical ways to align decisions with presence rather than pain,

and understand why mindfulness and awareness are key to building a life grounded in wholeness instead of wounds.

I don't know if that's a correct assumption. You can tell me. Do you feel like this is a the stress of what's to come is a modern invention or are humans sort of genetically or historically or

historically coded to always worry about what's to come and whenever we try and focus on the

present we're actually pushing back against the way that we were built well there, there's a very strong scientific argument, evolutionary argument, that our orientation

is to focus more on the future.

The psychologist, Dr. Martin Seligman, he wrote a book called Homo prospectus, which is

making the argument that at our core, we are future thinking beings.

Our unique capacity is to imagine a future that hasn't yet happened

and then organize resources to help bring that future to reality.

No other animals that we're aware of it. Maybe this has

changed in recent years, our understanding, but have that same capacity to do that, to imagine a

future that doesn't exist and then create it. So I would argue that at our core, that is more a capacity than to just be present.

We can also talk about it in a bit how they're not necessarily contradictory.

Because anything, anything, the future doesn't exist in the future and the past doesn't exist in the past.

They just exist.

They're all arising in the present moment. And doesn't exist in the past. They just exist. They're all

arising in the present moment. And so where so many people get stuck with meditation and mindfulness

is they think they shouldn't have these thoughts about the future in the past. And then they

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