Right Here, Right Now

I'm a big advocate of living in the moment. I read Eckhart Tolle a lot. My copy of his 'New Earth' book looks like it's been through a few wars - and in truth, with me, it has. One thing that I like to put into practice is an exercise he says to try when you feel down/stressed etc. He tells you to stop and ask yourself, 'In this actual moment, right here, right now, is there anything actually wrong?' Often we'll be lying in bed with the world on our shoulders, but it's actually only in our minds. We're there in a comfortable bed with no immediate danger anywhere near us. If most of what we worry about doesn't actually happen, we waste a lot of time worrying about unnecessary things.

So I do that a lot. And often it helps. But today, while nothing is immediately wrong, the reality is that my heart hurts. It got broken and it hurts. Sometimes I feel it less than at other times, but there's really nothing like it is there? And time is the one and only remedy.