After the celebrations are over it can be daunting can’t it to look ahead to a new year.  What’s in store for us all globally, nationally and personally?   Trouble is looking ahead through our imaginary crystal balls is notoriously difficult – well let’s be honest impossible.  What we really achieve by trying to predict the future is usually negative thoughts and emotions such as worry, anxiety, fear, doubt, panic and depression.

Grounding ourselves in the present, only allowing ourselves short term plans in our diaries or events that we know are likely to happen such as that summer holiday we have just booked.

We can do nothing about the past, we cannot live in the future – only the present.   Another way of putting it is ‘do not worry about tomorrow because today’s troubles are enough for today’.  Concentrate on what you can do today, experience its joys, its highs and lows and tackling one problem at a time, focusing, at least for some small part of each day, on taking time out to rest.