Dear Nina,

Thanks for you reply. Yes I am a little confused myself, to be honest.

The best way I can describe it is to be fully present, often means detaching yourself from your past and future – so living in the now. But if I want to make a life decision, and do so being fully present i can’t see how i wouldn’t tap in to past experiences or future expectancies – which can lead to negative associations and unreliable or mistaken intuition.

I can practice mindfulness and being present, but this is often in a state of doing not a lot – or something I enjoy. I can even do this for example when exploring a new city on a holiday – but this holiday had to be planned if you get my drift?

Can we make big potentially life changing plans/ decisions within this state? I guess this is what I’m asking. And if not are our decisions always dictated by the past and future. Our ‘now’ is only our ‘now’ because of our past and what we decided to be our future or ‘now’. Does that make sense?