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Hidden cause 4: The Time Trap
    Time is a major hidden cause of getting trapped in the mind. When thinking, you are in an imaginary story about something relating to the past and future. You are either thinking about something that’s happened in the past, appears to be happening now, or might happen in the future. With an unlimited number of scenarios available to you to get caught up in, you can unwittingly waste years entangled in the time trap.
    Going into the past offers, quite literally, a million memories to choose from for as far back as you can remember. Obviously, this can play havoc with your mind calm now if you regularly take jaunts down memory lane (or for some, memory highway!). Not only that, but if you believe in past lives then you can also end up sorting through memories from an infinite supply of other lifetimes, too. Adding to the time trap, you also have the future to contend with, which also brings with it an endless stream of potential scenarios for the mind to become embroiled in. All the time, missing the present moment. The Time Trap, left unseen, makes mind calm near impossible.
Stop thinking and get real
    Even thinking about what’s happening now is a subtle Time Trap. Incredibly, all of our thoughts are about the past and future. Yes, that’s the reality of the situation, every single one! There is no such thing as a present-moment thought. All your thoughts are about the past and future, meaning that if you’re thinking, then you will inevitably end up missing the moment you’re in.
    Although now is the only time anything can happen and so your thoughts are happening now too, the content of your thoughts is always about the past and future. Even attempting to think about what’s happening now, the moment has always moved on before your mind can process what is happening. To enjoy mind calm and truly experience reality in all its glory, you need to be willing to see when you’ve left now and gone into an imagined story in your mind. Otherwise you risk spending all your time in your mind.
Time and the compulsion to overthink
    There is a direct relationship between believing that the past and future are relevant to your current levels of peace, happiness, love and success and the compulsion to overthink. If you believe that you need to resolve all the ‘bad’ things that have happened in your life to date, then you will feel compelled to think at length about past memories. Similarly, if you believe that you need to have a better future so you can feel good then, again, you can find yourself needing to engage your mind anytime it presents thoughts about the future, and thinking, for example,
What if I run out of money?
What if my body never heals?
What if I never meet anyone?
What if I’m stuck with this person forever?
    Remember, we have a problem anytime we judge and resist ‘what is’. Entering the past and future presents your mind with infinite opportunities to judge and resist what’s happened in the past or might happen in the future. You can find yourself trapped in judging and resisting made-up future possibilities that haven’t even happened. It’s such a waste of time! To enjoy mind calm it is vital to accept that whatever’s happened in your past or might happen in your future need not have any impact on your current levels of peace.
    The only time that you can
experience mind calm is now.
    When you learn how to be here now, tapping into the inner reservoir of goodness that resides within your current conscious awareness, the lure of leaving your calm consciousness to go into some imagined story in your mind diminishes naturally. You see clearly that now is the only moment you can ever experience clarity, contentment and connection. When you leave now, it feels flat compared to the aliveness of the magnificent moment you are always in.
Quick cure: Reality Check
    Escaping the Time Trap involves turning your