Power Of Now - Experiment 2: Trains and Pains

I will tell you that the Power of Now is not effective on trains. Now usually on a train, I am in what we will now call future mode, (thoughts to do with the future). Most of the time I am worried about not getting to my destination, not getting there on time and wanting to hurry the journey up because it is taking too long and I could be doing something better with my time. When I was in NOW mode, these thoughts did come up but in the last blog that I did, I trained myself not to think the worst. I felt totally relaxed and was starting to enjoy riding the train and seeing the amazing snow covered views.

The Power of Now worked in terms of not thinking about the future, but it did not help me being on the train itself. When I started focusing on my senses sitting on the train, there were two things really bugging me. 1. I heard a squeaking noise on the train and it was constant. I thought to myself I do not want to listen to that the whole train journey! 2. It was incredibly cold and every time the door opened, it became even colder. What I could of done was move to a different seat, but there were non available.
   What helped me go through these annoying attributes was past mode. Not in the way you think, I started to have my past thoughts that have been bugging me for a while and try and analyze them again. I should really of had a pen and paper and jotted it down but I didn't. This is what helped me cope through the cold and noise of the train and help me focus on something that has been bugging me for a long time. In a way I was analyzing the situation and I still need to analyze it, as it keeps coming up, so in my next blog I will discuss and hopefully will come up with a solution or how to deal with the past issue at least.

According to the article, when dealing with past issues or thoughts you need to:

1. Analyze what happened
2. Learn from it
3. Move on

This is what I hope to do and in my next blog once the issue is discussed and analyzed, I will then put closure on the whole thing, but first I need to write it down on a piece of paper and really think about it.

In conclusion for this blog, even though I was thinking about past issues, I was analyzing them and understanding them so therefore 'focusing on a task' which is what The Power Of Now asks us to do. I was in past mode, but I was dealing with the issues and how I deal with those issues in the now. A bit confusing I know but this is why I am doing a blog about the whole thing.

I will let you know the results in the next blog.

Thanks for reading.