In this new year Kansans look to the future – or maybe it’s not just in the new year as Steven Salt contends in a cleveland.com article – Are we working for or against our health? Of course we wouldn’t intentionally work against our health so it’s worthwhile to take a few minutes to consider if mental time travel is affecting your health. Below is an excerpt from this December 2nd article with a link below to continue reading.
We can never know about the days to come
But we think about them anyway…
Carly Simon’s hit, “Anticipation” opens with a truism that has proved to be at times comforting; at times, calamitous. And when it comes to the near or distant future, anticipation about our health can be a good or a bad thing. It depends how you think about it.
Let’s face it, we’re mental time travelers. We spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the future and the past, possibly at the expense of the present.