Social trap is a term used by psychologists to describe a situation in which a group of people act to obtain short-term individual gains, which in the long run leads to a loss for the group as a whole. Examples of social traps include the overharvesting of fish species by commercial and sport fishers, the near-extinction of the American bison, energy "brownout" and "blackout" power outages during periods of extreme temperatures, the overgrazing of cattle on the Sahelian Desert, and the destruction of the rainforest by logging interests and agriculture.

I do not know the reason for "being present" yoga. What do people think about when they are not being present? If they are anything like me, its thinking about what you can change, trying not to worry about what you can't. Some people use their minds like a computers, musicians for example. I had a musician friend in college who used her mind like I would use an iPod. If she wanted to access a song, she could stream it to her consciousness and enjoy it. The same with spelling, if you asked her to spell a word, she said the word would pop up in her mind's eye. I could never do anything like that. But, I digress.

I don't have a photographic memory, so I've always been interested in photography. I think you have to be present to do photography. I worked in as a photographer in college, but stopped taking pictures until the last year.

The answer to the question I posed, about why to be present, is that if you look back to a time when you spent a lot of time in your head, I bet you won't remember much about that time. You get more memories by being present, and memories are all we really own.

Its very hard for me to be graceful. Instead, I'll try to avoid the opposite of grace, which I take to be force, not in the "Let the Force be with you" sense, and more like "but I used a little too much force".  I spent some time forcing the issue, so now, I'm trying to do the opposite.