Another 'last thing' (I'm very good at these!) is that this is the basis of true meditation as opposed to 'guided meditation'. It is to slow down the mind, so that you can see what is really there (objective view of reality, uncluttered by future hope or past fears). A quiet/ still mind perceives things as they are in the here and now, rather than as they could be in the there and then (imagined/ remembered). This is what the Temple Grandin quotes were about - seeing reality without the 'overlay' of emotion that blights our perception of it.
