How much time do you spend really being present?

How much time do you spend really being in the present?  

Maybe you think you are present but how much time do you spend overthinking your earlier conversation?  Focusing on how another person feels about you?  Worrying about what will happen tomorrow?  Thinking about how you can get someone to like you or how you can change them or your circumstances?

All of these thoughts remove you from your center of self.  Your connection with you.

And they prevent you from being present and enjoying what is actually your life.  

If you are constantly fighting against what is happening you will constantly be in a state of anxiety. 

Anxiety may bring about fear.  It may drain your energy.  It may be difficult to feel at peace.

What can you do when your thoughts are scattered, when you are focused on worrying about what someone else feels about you or thinks about you, when you want to control the future because of worrying?

How can you return to a peaceful grounded state?

Put your focus back on you.  On your life.  On how you feel.  Rather on trying to figure out why someone is doing what they are doing or what they think or feel about you. 

Accept what is happening.  Accept your life.  Accept this place you are in.  Accept everything happening right now as part of your journey.  Rather than worrying about and trying to control an outcome.  

When you stop putting all your energy towards worrying and changing others and overthinking, you will feel more energy and be able to live your life in the present.