You may be misinterpreting concepts.
The "Now" as it is viewed by our linear mind, is like a point that is racing from past to future, and that feeble moment in between is the now.
This is truth only to clocks.
Our perception of time is completely different !
"Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity." Albert Einstein.
Imagine for a minute what it would be like if there were no clocks.
What if the linear mind couldn't grasp the concept of time.
If you just focus on the fact that you are here, now, breathing, moving, you might suddenly realise that you constantly exist Now. 5 minutes ago doesn't exist anymore. 5 minutes from now is also just a concept.
A clock is just a measuring tool to know the "distance" between events.
Now when you look at the clock, you can see the seconds ticking away.
However, you yourself are constantly in the "Now". The measuring tool is constant, your perception is relative. You can see the clock moving, but you yourself are not. You are just constantly Now.
Since you appear not to be moving, and the clock is, you must be outside of time to be able to even see it.
This means that you ( not your body, but the You inside of it ) are in a different dimension than time.
If you were part of time, you wouldn't notice it. The whole idea of trying to measure time with a clock would have been complete nonsense to you, because you couldn't feel time, because you aretime.
This is not the case with us. No matter what happens, we are always "now". The clock, the world, everything around us moves and changes. Even in our bodies. Every seven years all cells in our bodies will have been completely replaced. So, 7 years ago, your body was entirely different from the body you have today. However who you really are hasn't changed. It can't, because it can't escape the Now.
The clock is usefull because we have to make plans. We assume that the Now we live in will at some point pass that point on the timeline on which we placed the appointment.
Nothing wrong with that. Pure faith that the Universe will provide. And it probably will.
However we also make projections in our mind of what might happen in the future, or re-live what has happened in the past.
When we do this, we are not concious of the "now" anymore.
We are playing with a memory or a future scenario.
Our body can't tell the difference between real tension, and tension created by the mind. It will produce exactly those ( harmful on the long run ) hormones needed to cope with the problem that is either imagined, or happening for real.
The common word for this condition today is "stress".
So, does this mean that someone living completely in the now will never have stress ? No, it means that the person living in the now only has stress when encountering a stressful situation in the Now.
For instance a closet that tips over in your direction, and you need to act fast to step out of the way. The moment of the closet hitting you hasn't happened yet, but you know that stepping away to not get splattered has to happen NOW. At this point the somewhat harmful stress hormones are definately not a problem, the harm done to the body without super-speed is higher due to the falling closet.
For instance, my wife just called me, she is stuck in a traffic jam and has to be back in time to pick up our daughter from school. She was totally stressed out up to the point where she was crying.
There is no falling closet, she doesn't need to act NOW. If she would have remained calm, she would have come up with a solution, for instance to call a friend who might pick up our little girl for us.
Now the stress hormones are counter productive.
Strange thing is, when you write it down like this, it is very logical. Yet everybody will agree that it is hard to not get worked up like this in a situation similar to this one.
Until you know how, meditation is a good way to get your daily dosage of stress hormones out of your system.
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