THE ENERGY MODEL

ARE YOU LIVING IN HERE AND NOW?

Its is always said that we should live 'in the here and now'. But Why?
The Swiss author Pascal Mercier says this: 'It is an error, a nonsensical act of violence, to concentrate on the here and now with the conviction of thus grasping the essential. What matter is to move surely and calmly, with the appropriate humour and the appropriate melancholy in the temporally and spatially internal landscape that are we.
Here is a non-judgmental question: how much of your time do you spend thinking about the past and future? or to put it another way, how often do you think, wistfully or thankfully, about what has been? How often do you have the feeling that you are really concentrating on what you are doing at a particular moment? How often do you imagine what the future may hold and how often do you worries about what lies ahead of you? The tree examples shown in the model on the right can also represent cultural values: memory-driven, in nostalgic Europe: driven, in the USA,  the "land of opportunity' and reality driven in industrious Asia.

You cant change the past. But you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.