Mindfulness
fromPsychology Today
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Only the present moment truly exists; past is memory, future is undetermined, and embracing the present reduces suffering from regret and anxiety.
Every generation believes it is living through the most dangerous, most consequential moment in history. Public policymakers call this presentism or presentism bias: our tendency to overestimate the singularity and existential weight of our own time. Psychologists would focus more on availability heuristics and recency bias: information that is most easily recalled, and more recent events tend to seem most important.