It’s a bit like reminding yourself over and over you’re alive right now. The issue is the moment always folds into the next one, and the one after, and….
A better way to feel present is to experience discomfort with boredom. This is what I run from. My body internally convulses and reaches for any entertainment. If you can be more still with boredom, you’ll be more present. You’ll feel that which you’ll do anything to avoid.
In a few decades there will be boredom groups and boredom coaches who host boredom retreats. Novels written about how boredom changed the very fabric of one’s life.
Still, it’s a useful exercise-sitting with boredom. Or fear. Or anger. Or whatever bubbles up. It’s the only way to remind yourself you are right now right here.