The past is merely an interpretation of a limited slice of life we experienced and the future is unknowable. Over-thinking the past or future results in missing the NOW. There are times we need to plan, but we can do it while remaining conscious of our thinking. Rehashing old dissatisfaction is a waste. Focusing on what’s happening in this moment permits you to embrace it with your full attention. Creating a lifetime of moments in which you’re present is how you live in the place where true happiness exists…
NOW.
Jarl and Steve
I’m getting it! You keep working on this theme and even habitual resistors like me are figuring it out!
Thanks and God Bless,
Larry
What is really the difference between thinking and imagination?similarly is there any difference between emotions and feelings?
Love
Sarath
I’d say thinking is a left brain activity and imagination is a right brain activity. Thinking happens all the time whether one is conscious about it or not and imagination is usually something one does on purpose.
Antonio D’Amasio, professor of neuroscience at The University of California and author of several books on the subject, explains it as:
Feelings are mental experiences of body states, which arise as the brain interprets emotions, themselves physical states arising from the body’s responses to external stimuli. (The order of such events is: I am threatened, experience fear, and feel horror.)
Dr.Sarah Mckay, neuroscientist and author of the Your Brain Health blog explains it as:
Emotions play out in the theater of the body. Feelings play out in the theater of the mind.