Living the present

We use to live our lives on the past or on the future, it's rare that we focus on the now, we use to live thinking on when I have a good work, when the children grow up, when I have time... or money....without enjoing about every activity we are doing on the right now.
To remember is not bad, we can enjoy remembering good times and feeling good, but if we use our time to remember bad moments we would be suffering doble and this don't have a lot of sense.
To make plains can be gook, it will give us hope and ilusions but we can not stop living the now because of nothing. If we are not enjoing on the present we have to think twice what is happening in our lives.
The best way to enjoy the present is enjoing on what we do every day, when we are working, or when we are at home. To me it's easy to enjoy in my work because I adore it, but if even you don't like a lot your work, sure you always can find something positive, and sure there is a reason your working on that. When you have to make another things by obligation like for example when I have to iron (this is the activity I like to make less) and I don't have money to pay somebody to make it by me, I put music and I begin singing or I whach something on TV or DVD that I like. There's always a way to enjoy making the things.
You can start on the morning, when you wake up feeling the energy, the ilusion of a new day, when you go to work (I go by bus and I can read, observe the countryside, talk with somebody, or simply thinking on something nice, if it's not nice I stop quickly and I change my mind.
There are several tecnics to focus on the now.
You can stop breathing and begin taking air slowly and imagine it going around all your body. Keep on breathing slowly and deeply while you center the atention on each and every part of your body, being completly concious of anyone.
The biggest problem to live on now is that we're thinking all the time, without stopping, to stop thinking the best way is to try to be very concius on what we are thinking... like telling oneself, now I want to know what I am thinking..... and suddenly..... we think nothing, it's very funny how we work....... Well, so we have to be very concious on what we are doing and we have to try to know what we are thinking so we are center on the present, it's easy, and when we make it more it will be better mada, we would be more conciuos and realize what we loose when we are not center on the present.
When I was younger, during a time I was nervious and I woke up in the night, it takes me terrible work to sleep again, when I begin focus on how nice it was to be lay down in the warm, nice, soft bed, how confortable it was, and I still have a lot of time to stay on the bed until the morning, obviouly I fall sleep very quickly.
To live in the present is an attitude we can take and it really would make us to live better, to slow down, to enjoy and be concious of what we are doing. The most of the time the most important is while your making, more than the result.
I work on a day center with demential people, the most important is to make them have the best quality of life, more important than the own therapy is how I make the therapy, it really focus you in the present, I learn a lot from this.