ABSTRACT
Living in the here and now and focusing only on the tasks and events of the present are things that people do not do easily. Our minds wander to the past with floodings of nostalgia as we recall events, experiences, and relationships that used to be. And especially for people in the Western world, thoughts and images race to future times with feelings of hope, anticipation, or dread. This inability to stay grounded in the present or to "stop and smell the roses" was, in fact, a major theme of the counterculture of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
