To be Utterly Alive

Whenever I’m on vacation it feels so much easier to be present in the moment. It’s when I’m far away from my daily life, that I’m utterly aware of the fact that I can do absolutely nothing about the past nor the future, and this feels amazing. 
With my brow chakra slightly unbalanced I tend to spend a lot time worrying about the future, though I know it gets me nowhere. When I break down my fears, they all contain the fear of not being happy. Which is silly, ’cause I’m happy now, in this very moment, and this is what counts, ’cause that is really everything that exists.
Now.
I have to remind myself constantly that my task is and was never to secure my happiness for the rest of this life, but for the rest of this moment. And also, I found that I’m way more productive when I’m present. I’m mindblown every time, by the amount of result and experience I gain, when I use the time I usually spent overthinking on actual action.
Moreover it’s so much easier to build new habits when living in the now.
For example I used to always set myself a giant frame of time when changing my workout routine or the food I ate. Then I wanted to be fit and eat healthy for a month, a year, forever…That went well for, let’s say two weeks until I made excuses like “This day is an exception, tomorrow I continue”. Yeah, bet you can guess where that ended…
Surprisingly I find it so much easier to stick to healthy habits, patterns and self-discipline when I only focus on the 24 hours ahead. This plot twist allows me to see the presence as an exception, where I want to make good decisions, physically and mentally, which bring me happiness and results, while it allows me to see the future as something not so strict, still changeable, where I can skip my workout if I like to, or stick to it if I feel like it. And this goes the same way for my happiness. How I ensure my happiness tomorrow is something I can only figure out tomorrow.  I do my best to only focus on being happy today, choosing positive thoughts today, loving myself even more today, being present today, feeling my heartbeat now, filling my lungs with fresh air now, appreciating my existence now, and being fully alive now.
And I dare you to do the same.
That you are reading this blog entry now, in this very moment, is no coincidence. Take this moment to find excitement in the fact that you are so very alive. Nourish your body with new energy by breathing consciously, and feed your mind with fresh positive thoughts. Fall in love with the feeling of your heart beating, and the knowledge that ‘now’ is everything you got. What are you going to do now?