THINKING TOO MUCH IN THE FUTURE COULD BE A GREAT SOURCE OF STRESS
Undoubtedly, one of the situations that can cause more stress and unrest is to constantly think about the distant future, that is, in those possible plans that are still far from happening and that along the way they could find many circumstances that modify them and change the course.
Thinking about everything that is pending, everything that will come or everything that is going to happen is much heavier than resolving the present, and this can become a problem because we do not let ourselves concentrate in the moment of now and its experiences. . Almost always the justification is to be proactive, but that foresight or "precaution" takes away energy and also adds worries for a future that we still do not know. It is true that there will always be something pending, something that must be prepared, a problem to solve, but it is also true that we can not get ahead of ourselves.
Living visualizing the future is a way to stay alert, with your guard up, as if you expect a setback at any moment, and that undoubtedly wears out like few things, makes us forget the important thing that happens around us and accustoms us to a permanent state of tension. The truth is that almost always, more than half of the things we think will happen, will not. The world is changing and unpredictable.
The most convenient is to think about the day to day, moment by moment, and allow us to live it. Solve one thing at a time without projecting the concerns to events that are still far away. Identifying the exact point between the appropriate forecast and the free concerns can be complex, but it is important to relax, opting to change your mind when we catch ourselves thinking about what we will do for the next 3 or 5 years, for example. The fatigue of always fighting against indeterminacy is enormous.
The key is to go step by step. Do not lose sight of the fortune that surrounds us and that worries would make us pass by. It is easy for the source of our stress to be too far ahead as if we wanted to cover more, in an anxious need for nothing to fail us, without realizing that it is just that moment of tension when we are failing, by neglecting other, more immediate needs.