Mihail Pautov explains why your brain is built to predict the future, making presence hard. Simple practices like breathing and movement bring you back to now.
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So basically our brain is a predictions machine. It predicts all the time. Even when you don't think about things, it predicts things like what would happen if it's going to be an earthquake, what, what is the root out here, even if you don't think about that. And we analyze the past to learn from that. So probably these are good tools. And because this brain, this machine, it is made to analyze the past and to make predictions for the future, it is so hard to stay in the present. So how can we stay in the present?
We can use the mind to really use it and benefit our well being. But we can also use the mind to destroy our well being. So the question is, how do you use the mind in the proper way? This is the point where now it comes to all different types of practices like focus on the breath, focus on the movement, everything that brings you into the presence. This one doesn't happen in the past. There's nothing more real, there's nothing more direct, nothing more present than something like this. And so to remind yourself also again to identify, okay, I'm drifting off right now. Come back. Awareness is key. You worked so hard for it, now you have it. Enjoy it. Yeah, but you can't enjoy it if all the time you think about like last week or, or if you think all the time about what happens in the future.