One of the most often used phrases one will hear these days is the saying, “to be in the present”. Of course, it is a very profound way of being that is the heart of spiritual practice. However, the art of present centered living is does not depend entirely upon how the attention is used.Certainly, when the attention is focused in the present, one is right there, but since there are other faculties that we use during the day, it is incumbent upon the person to understand how to use these others, such as volition, instinct, emotion and thought. In other words, if a person decides to focus their attention, it will be soon disrupted - thus, causing a breach in attention - if these other instruments of experience are not given their due notice and engaged, functionally. In other words, wrong use of the volition (action), emotion and thought are vital not only to understanding the mind, but to “living in the present”.
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