Present

If you are hungry, try to figure out what you want to eat. Do you want sweet, bitter, salty, crunchy, smooth, cold, or hot? When you’ve picked out a meal or snack, sit down, be present, and enjoy what you’re eating. Being fully present for your meal will allow you to be in touch with your fullness cues. In the beginning it may be difficult to assess this. I suggest rating the first bite of your food on a scale from 1-10. This makes it easier to notice when…

experience holds a weight and our daily decisions reflect how we regard this weight. Too many people are content with letting their days go to waste with the assumption that their future holds something greater than the present. However, if you don’t make use of the present, you should not expect much to change in the future. Yet, it seems like people are more content to apathetically float through life while drowning in a lake of boredom and misplaced energy. There is no such thing as…

All humans, the Adams and Eves of the 21st century, also have a common purpose—it is to remain conscious. This means filling one’s heart with love and fostering a present mind, at all times. Your primary purpose as an Adam or Eve is to remain conscious and mindful in your life. This is what Buddha taught. God made mindfulness a human being’s primary purpose because he wants us to return to our true home which is the paradise of 5th dimensional earth—the true heaven. To accomplish this, we must…

Adrienne Rich modifies her language to disclose feminist perceptions and give an insight to the lives of those women who had lived before her. She examines her own personal past to connect to the lives and hardships of all women, including past, present, and those in the future. Without personal experience Rich would not be able to convey the message she tries to relay to the…

us in. Our past certainly impacts much of who we are, but our present is determined by what is in our hearts and minds. The past may influence the present, but it does not control it. We should be looking towards our future but it should not be something that is constantly being longed for. Many times, people that constantly look at the future look at it as a sort of utopia, and they get so caught up that they forget about the present. What we do each and every moment determines the future and…

“the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you do not plan for it (Williams).” When you read the play one can get the instinct that each character enjoys to live in the past and not the present because in the past each of them hold memories that are too good to let go. Although, I think the quote above creates the proof a reader of the play needs to realize each of these characters could have enjoyed the present if they realized that…

heyday instead of moving on (Updike). Similarly, Plath's tone shift from paragraph four, where “at the present moment [she] is happy,” to paragraph 5, where “[she is] afraid of getting older...of getting married,” displays Plath's fear of growing up with new responsibilities…

“Nature always wears the color of the spirit” (Ralph Waldo Emerson). The spirit of a person can be dependent of the weather that is present. If it is a cloudy cold day, a person could feel sad or gloomy and have a dampened mood. If it a bright, sunny day; a person could be happy and energetic. In general, nature and its conditions can play a critical role in how a person may feel. In literature, nature can play a similar role as a symbol or motif. One example of how nature can be integrated in…

problem itself and by doing so, there is a focus on the negative aspects and what is wrong. The strengths perspective tries shifting the view of situations by focusing on what the client may bring to the current situation. It tries to focus on the present and what the future may hold rather than what has happened in the past (Miley, O’Melia, & DuBois, 2015, p. 79). The strengths approach consists of observing the qualities and strengths a client has. Often times there are strengths that have…

into madness, stemming from his wartime past as well as the pressures put on him from society. In the passage, Septimus’s mental instability is a result of the fragmented time he experiences. Not only must Septimus comprehend the stimuli of the present, it is contested by intrusions of his past. The presence of Evans, a deceased friend of Septimus in the war, constantly undermines Septimus’s attempts at assimilation…