Ease Anxiety. Return to the present. Live more mindfully with intention and joy.
Ease Anxiety. Return to the present. Live more mindfully with intention and joy.
At backtothepresent.org, we exist to ease the ANXIETY that pull people away from the only moment where they can use their Gifts and truly enjoy life — the present one.
When you return your Awareness to the present moment, you limit unnecessary ANXIETY and regain the ability to utilize your Time and Energy — your Limiting Resources — with intention and efficiency. Here, you learn to apply Awareness, Challenge, Patience, and Honor into a practice that can help you return to presence, minimize suffering, and experience more joy.
Nothing here is new.
These are ancient truths, simply explained in a way you can actually use.
Find Your Way
What is the LIFE-MAP?
“The LIFE-MAP” is a core part of the backtothepresent.org process. It’s a synopsis of the Critical Understandings needed to find a more mindful, joyful and fulfilling life.
It’s not just a set of directions, but a new way of seeing your journey. It helps you navigate away from ANXIETY and back to the joy of the present moment.
A New Way To Be
Our program provides exercises for improved consciousness and mitigation of Anxiety. We guide you through a personal journey to a more peaceful, mindful, and fulfilling life.
F.A.S.T. Emotions
Don’t act F.A.S.T.—nothing good comes of it. Pause before reacting—fear, anger, sadness, and temptation can mislead.
Toolbox for A Joyful Life
Practical tools to help you live with loving intention-bringing more joy into every moment.
Decision Making
Learn how your Impulse, Intention, and Implementation shape contentment, happiness, and joyfulness—and how using loving intention can guide every choice.
Karmic Responsibility
Every emotion, behavior, and response you send out returns-karmic responsibility helps you understand why.
Sources of Anxiety
Find out what steals your joy—and how to take it back.
Critical Understandings of the Life Map
See the principles that guide your actions, feelings, and thoughts to a more joyful, present life.
Mindfulness
When being mindful, we are aware of what we are doing, feeling, and thinking in the present moment, without judgment.
The Three Gifts
Use your physical, emotional, and spiritual Gifts with intention.
The Three C’s of a Good Relationship
Commitment, Communication, and Compromise guide how we use our actions, feelings, and thoughts with loving intention—helping relationships grow stronger, more respectful, and more joyful.
Identity
Explore how your sense of self is shaped by thoughts, roles, and experiences, and how awareness creates freedom beyond them.
Attributes of Knowledge
Balance the brain and the heart. Let your intellect and intuition work together as one, creating a joyful life.
Our Creatives Abilities
Discover the human tools that allow us to create our life’s direction.
Emotional States of Being
Decision making for content, happiness, and joyfulness.
Levels of Consciousness
Discover why humans don’t just survive the moment—we use our consciousness to choose what comes next.
Creative Evolution
Creative evolution is humans consciously shaping future generations through intentional mate choice.
Obligations
Notice the responsibilities you carry and how they shape your thoughts, emotions, and actions. Awareness creates space for wiser choices.
Social Anxiety
Understand how fear of judgment pulls attention away from the present moment, and how awareness helps you return.
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Meet the Founder
Dr. Wayne Johnson, MD
Dr. Wayne Johnson practices medicine on Hilton Head Island, SC. Through his years of practice, he has developed this program to encourage and support people of all ages in the pursuit of a Joyful Life.
Using techniques of mindfulness, this program guides each person through a personal journey to mitigate anxiety, focus on fulfillment, and find their way "Back To The Present."
Why Mindfulness Matters
In this TEDx talk, Dr. Wayne Johnson shares the deeper reason behind this entire approach, explaining how anxiety affects young people today and how mindful awareness can transform the way they navigate stress. This video offers the foundation of everything we teach, showing how presence builds confidence, clarity, and a more meaningful life.
The Science Behind Our Framework
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