Tension means a gap between what you are and what you want to be. More the gap, more the tension. It means that when you are satisfied with what you are, you have no tension! In other words, you do not long to be anything other than what you are. Then your mind exists in the moment. Then there is nothing to be tense about. You are at east with yourself. Our existence itself is non tense. Tension is always because of hypothetical, non existential possibilities. In the present there is no tension. Tension is always future oriented. It comes from the imagination. You can imagine yourself as something other than you are. When you long for the future, you create images and because there are no corresponding realities, you go on creating more and more images. But as far as the present is concerned, you cannot conceive of the imagination in relation to it! How can you be imaginative in the present? There seems to be no need. Once we understand this and start living in the present, our life will be happier. Mindfulness has been practiced since thousands of years by Monks in Tibet and has a deeper meaning for our lives today. www.lifecoachformysuccess.com lifecoachformysuccess@gmail.com