Mindfulness and savoring 72 examples – will take our mind off worrying about the future if we do it properly. There is more peace in the moment than most of us realize. As you read these words, make sure you are fully present in this moment. As you interact with these ideas on this page is your mind being distracted by other thoughts? Are you fully focused on this particular here and now? Like most moments in our life, this moment, right now as you read these words, is not stressful. Hopefully it is interesting for you. If you are fully connected to this moment, whatever worries you have in your life have to be abandoned and put aside for this moment. This moment, as you read, is relaxed – connect fully to the peace in this moment. Enjoy. For readers who might like to pursue this issue further I recommend Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn. A final thought on the subject of worry; one study found that only around 10 % of what people stressed about ever came true. We can waste a lot of energy, and lose a lot of our lived life being distracted from the moment by worries about the future. By all means choose to spend time planning to minimize potential problems in the future but then get back to being in the moment and living life as soon as you can. The key word here is‘ choose’. Mindfulness teaches that we can take time to learn from the past or plan for the future, but we must choose to do this and not let our mind run wildly, untamed from past to future as if we had no say in it. The author Robin Sharma in The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari, points out that the mind is a wonderful servant but a terrible master. Sharma reminds us that we can and need to control our mind – not have it control us. The trick of course is to learn how to be fully in the moment throughout our day, throughout our weeks. This is an artful skill, but not as difficult as you might think. A simple starting place is to repeatedly ask yourself the two Zen questions every time you think of it. Place reminders around you so that when you come across them you check in with yourself. Contact your nearest Zen Buddhist or meditation