How often do you worry about the future?  Or feel stuck or drawn back by something or someone in the past that you can’t seem to get past? Human mind and emotion have a persistent way of distracting us from the present.  We struggle with the business of being human--that is, surviving physically and emotionally--and we think far too much about it, often engendering fear.  This is our nature and our habit, and it is reinforced relentlessly by our cultures (including family, work, and community cultures) and by the realities of survival. We are shaped by our pasts, by our attachments and … [Read more...]