Are you a chronic worrier?  Do you obsess about things?  Or, does your mind seem to always be stuck in the past?

When any of us experiences high stress (eg., an illness, a death, intense work pressure), our sense of well being is often temporarily hijacked by our thoughts running off into the past or into the future.  I call this the Runaway Brain.  Tune into your mind’s chatter at any given point, and there is a strong likelihood that you will find yourself everywhere but here.  You may be regretting a decision you made or worrying about how you will make ends meet if you lose your job.  The problem with this tendency of the brain to meander out of the present is that neither the past, nor the future, actually exists, except in your mind.  The only thing that exists is right now.  This moment.   The rest is pure imagination.