Be Here Now

Remembering to be in the moment.

There is a poster in the locker room at the Y for a mindfulness group that meets once a week entitled, "Be Here Now." Whenever I see the poster it reminds me of a book I have called "The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle and a guest blog entry I wrote for my cousin Alina's blog about six months ago.

I am a worrier by nature so when I am able to pull myself into the now, I remember that I can only deal with what is. I cannot deal with what has happened or what may happen and usually in the moment, none of the things I'm worrying about are happening and probably won't ever happen. Tuesday night I swapped my car for Big Mo due to some problem with the right rear wheel of my car. Last night I swapped Big Mo for New Mo due to a problem with Big Mo's left front wheel. (I think I might have attracted the Mo's into my life with that blog entry!)

Let me tell you, last night I was a pity party, table for 1. "Why do cars hate me?" "Why does everything break when I drive it?" "I'm a good kid, why does this happen to me?" I love my dad, he's goodhearted however he's not exactly a glass is half full kind of guy. So I was quite surprised when it was he, who snapped me back into the moment. He said, "don't get upset about it, you have to deal with what happens, things break so you fix them and go on." It was an unexpected reminder that you really can only deal with what is.