Staying in “THE NOW” also helps to drop the emotional baggage that we cart around with us so much. By giving yourself the opportunity to experience the peace of the present, you will find yourself being able to gently release futile feelings the likes of blame and guilt. To do this, will then allow insights of understanding to filter into your mind to dissolve hurt, anxiety, and other crippling emotions which stop you acting to your truest feelings.

SOME EVERYDAY EXAMPLES:

In regard to projection outside the topic of sorrow, I offer this story to provide a balance to the concept of “THE NOW”. The wife of a friend of mine was under threat of loosing her job through staff cuts in hard financial times. After reviews and recommendations, the outcome would eventually be known with some inevitable casualties. After the staff assessments, my friend came to tell me how his wife had been fortunate in keeping her job, however his face still showed concern. I asked him why and he replied sombrely that “Her job was only safe for a year”. Even though the past few days had given him good reason to be concerned, he still managed to remove himself from being in a happy state from his wife's good news. He immediately projected without awareness a whole year ahead. He had leapt over 365 days of security to be with the pain of a retrenchment that might never eventuate. There was no awareness that his behaviour was normal, justified, or otherwise. There was simply no awareness. His actions were sympathetic of his thinking... his thinking was guided by his Ego... and his choice brought him pain.

Once again, by looking at Ego thinking based on fear, it wanted him not to bear any pain of job loss, so it projected him to the future in an attempt to find answers to a non existent problem. It found none and brought him back with a burden.