When I finally grasped this concept I was shocked & amazed. You can’t actually reach out and touch anything in the future right now. You can mentally experience the future, but the truth remains that the future scenario isn’t “real”. You can fill in as much detail as you like. You can play each of those scenes out in your head. Imagine any future scenario in your mind. This principle is also true for the future. It is only a memory and it only exists in your mind. It may seem real in your memory-in your mind-but it is not really “real”…not here, not now, not in existence. The fact is that right now you can not touch that ice cream cone and therefore it is not real. Can you do that? Can you touch that ice cream cone from your memory? No, of course you can’t (unless you’re on hallucinogenics but that’s another story). Now, where ever you are-right now, present moment, not in the memory-I’d like you to stick your finger right into the ice cream and then throw it to the floor. Let’s say, for example, it’s a hot summer day and you’re licking an ice cream cone. Let’s recall a memory in which you are eating something. I am going to ask you to walk through an exercise with me to help you understand.
I listened, opened my mind, and realized that it was true. How dare someone suggest that it is not? My ego lashed out but then I thought more about it.
When I first heard this concept I refused to believe or comprehend it. The past and the future only exist in our minds. After all, the past is not real, the future is not real. The only way to exist in true harmony is to live in the now. In The Power of Now, we learn that to live in the future or the past is to suffer. Based on my general understanding of the book and its content (prior to reading it) I felt that I would enjoy it however, I was completely unprepared for the way that the book would speak to me, transform my perspective, and change my life. The Power of Now had been on my “to-read” list for years when, by a stroke of fate, a dear friend offered to lend me her audio copy.
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