I have focused often on the connections of historical moments to the present moment in one's life. Tammy Lenski in her blog Conflict Zen comments on how this idea can be turned around to a meditation on one's own presence in tense situations: A simple meditation for tense and stressful moments offers the opportunity to see oneself as a point in history. She shares this simple meditation from Rev. Stephen Shick: "Stephen turned his friend’s historical predilection into a lovely meditation for tense and stressful moments: 
“I began practicing viewing my own life as a historian might. When I felt particularly stressful I would get up from my desk, walk to the corner of the room, and watch myself at work. Often I would find myself laughing fondly at the man hunched tensely over his desk. Then I would briefly narrate the situation. This little exercise helped me to step outside of my self-centered view of the world. In our troubled world I am finding more need to be a disciplined observer of my own life.” "
I need to practice this kind of thinking more.
“I began practicing viewing my own life as a historian might. When I felt particularly stressful I would get up from my desk, walk to the corner of the room, and watch myself at work. Often I would find myself laughing fondly at the man hunched tensely over his desk. Then I would briefly narrate the situation. This little exercise helped me to step outside of my self-centered view of the world. In our troubled world I am finding more need to be a disciplined observer of my own life.” "
I need to practice this kind of thinking more.
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