Viterbo, February 8th 2026
Dear Friend,
Over the last few weeks, in my coaching group I’ve been discussing our relationship with the past and the future on one hand, and with the present moment on the other hand.
Our NOW is the only moment we actually have, as the past is no more and the future may never be.
If you think of it, the mind is often stuck in the past, remembering, reliving, regretting, feeling proud or ashamed, wishing things had gone differently, or missing the good old times…
How often do we catch ourselves ruminating on times, people, places, situations, of the past?
And how often is the mind racing ahead into the future? Worrying about it, often dreading it, looking for ways to avoid all the unwanted scenarios?
So what’s this present moment, exactly? How long is it? How can we stay in it, when we’re talking to someone about history, or about our personal past? And how can we stay in it, when we’re planning a trip, or imagining our ideal future, or preparing for any kind of change?
Aren’t we the sum total of what we’ve experienced so far, plus our vision and projects for the future? Yes and no.
I’m going to enter some foggy grounds here, but please trust me and follow me. I’ve been walking this path for 40 years now, well, 39 to be precise.
What we need to 🐻 in mind here is, that we have two ways of visiting the past and the future.
1️⃣ What happens most of the time is that the mind does it automatically, in its frantic quest for relief from its fears. For example, it will scavenge the past to find confirmations that it was right back then. This comes from its fear of judgement, fear of being proven wrong, fear of not being loved and accepted. It will then run those past conversations and situations over and over again, change them, argue, recriminate.
When you identify with your automatic mind, you feel all worked up and hurt and angry, because its thoughts are strong enough to provoke emotions in you in the present, getting the body involved in those past scenarios. That’s why a racing heart, shivers, sweats, sadness, fear, vertigo, rage, shame, loads of heavy emotions, can come up when you’re stuck in the mind’s visits to the past.
Or it may create these fearful future scenarios, hoping it will have them figured out before they’re actually here. Again, this comes from fear. Fear of the unknown, fear of unpleasant situations, fear of pain, fear of death.
Same here, it can become as bad as getting panic attacks. It can make you freeze, it can make you overly cautious, overly defensive, make you feel trapped and powerless.
The automatic mind’s trips to a forever gone past and a hypothetical future are the greatest source of depression.
When you manage to get out of your automatic mind, and be in the present moment, that past and that future become totally irrelevant. In the now, for example while you’re reading this sentence, this is your new now, and this is your new now, and this is your new now, and this is your new now, there is no space for the past or the future, right here.
2️⃣ Now, I’m definitely not advocating sitting all day in the lotus position and remaining in the blissful NOW, although sometimes that’s exactly what we should all be doing! 😊 But life goes on, and we came to this planet to live it!
What I am strongly advocating, though, is that we stay out of the automatic mind as much as possible, and steer our lives from a place of presence to that one moment which is outside of time. That one moment is hugely empowering.
So this may sound paradoxical. How am I meant to live without going back to my past, and projecting ahead into my future?
By using your past and the future consciously, by clear choice, and not by numbed-out default. And it’s actually very important that you do that, especially with the future, because you want to know where you’re going.
So now we have another problem entering the equation: quantum physics teaches us that time is an illusion, that there is no past and no future, that it’s all happening at the same time, in the now, the present. It’s just our minds that need to spread things out in a linear way, in order to be able to grasp them.
Oh great, very useful, thanks for that! 🙄
Please 🐻 with me for another couple of fleeting nows.
This actually has a fantastic implication for us:
What we desire in our future often feels very distant, and may leave us doubting that it will ever arrive. The good new is, we can call it closer and closer, and have it much sooner than we think:
Say you’re on a timeline now, on a segment of your life path, where you don’t have the reality you want. But you know what it is you want, you have imagined it already. So it already exists in a different timeline, because you created it, you brought it into being, it’s out there in the universe, on an alternative, but totally possible, segment of your life path.
Imagine the timelines as railways. You’re on one line, and you want to go on another one that’s running far away from your current one. What you need to do now is, as usual, work on both the energy and the physical levels of reality.
Start with the energy work. Be present to yourself, and to this very moment. Now choose, with conscious intention and clarity, to project yourself onto that other timeline. In your imagination, enter that reality, be in it for a while. If your mind wanders, gently bring it back. Enjoy that reality.
Same as with the unwanted emotions from an unwanted past we talked about before, this desired reality will bring you the beautiful emotions that go with it.
If you manage to stay present with it for a bit, to look around, to feel the feelings of living it, it will make your body relax into it, it will let the joy, the fun, the ease, whatever it brings, play with your breath, with your heart rate. It will make you smile, it will strengthen your immune system, it will restore your energy.
Every time you go there and feel those emotions, you’re moving that railway closer to your current one. At some stage, the two will be really close… but will still not touch one another.
So how do you get a train from one line to another? With a railroad switch. And how do you set a switch between timelines? With one single decision.
When the new timeline is so close that you start to feel it, and to see it as a concrete possibility, that’s the moment when you can leave the previous one and switch to the new one.
There will be one decision, in the physical world, that you will need to make. And you will know exactly which one it is, even if you don’t know right now. That decision will make itself clearly known and fully understood, and it will instantly take you on the new track. I promise!
Check in with yourself whenever you can remember.
How am I feeling right now?
Am I happy and light? Is life fun?
You’re going there really fast.
Do things feel like hard work? Am I overwhelmed? Unhappy? Bored? Depressed?
Read this whole papyrus again, and start taking your daily energy work seriously!
I wish you loads of joy with it ❤️
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