Time Travelling

For years, people have obsessed with a dream, the idea of being able to transport themselves into the future or back to the past. One of the most successful sci-fi films ever, "Back to the Future", grossing over 388 million dollars, and it's subsequent sequels, were only the successes they were due to mankind's inherent interest in time travel.

I'll let you all in to a little secret, everyone is actually already doing it! In fact, most people are so accomplished, that they are time lords with no machines or special gizmos needed to achieve time travelling. The conscious part of our minds provide us with the power and ability to achieve a perfect time travelling experience.

Unfortunately, this form of "time travelling" is actually not what we want or need. People get stuck back in the past, reliving events that have already happened, which more often or not are their regrets, annoyances, disappointments. No matter how much time and effort they spend thinking "if only" there is absolutely nothing that can change past events. They have gone - finished - in the past! Constantly reliving things from the past can lead to depression, low self esteem and negativity. Conversely, projecting your thoughts into the future about things that have not happened yet, and may not even happen, is just as detrimental to people. This is anxiety - worrying about what might be, normally the worse possible scenarios.

For us to perform to our full potential, we need to stay focused in the present moment, yes we can learn from our past experiences so we can achieve more in the future, and yes we can plan our route going forward in the future, but our primary focus must be in the present moment in time, to become mindful and non-judgemental of ourselves and others.