It’s always about being fully here, wherever you are. Most of the time, however, your thoughts are somewhere else. We are strongly identified with the content of our thoughts. In the Western world, we identify much more with the self-image in the mind than with the body. 

The body is deeply connected to the here and now. When you identify with the body, you connect with the here and now and weaken the dominance of the mind. However, this requires a good degree of emotional maturity, because identification with the content of thought offers an apparent security, whereas identification with the body requires trust. 

As soon as you are not thinking and not trying, you are present in the here and now. Just by trying, by entrusting your own steps to your body, by giving your gaze to stillness, by giving your breath to the law of the stars, by finding the okayness in simply being here, you touch the joy inherent in the here and now.