Is There a Way to Live in the Present Moment?

In some people that also has created, I've had quite a few accounts of people who suddenly became intensely alert and present. They refuse to leave the present moment because they realized either through coming into contact with this or some other similar teaching or intuitively without having any guidance. So they got just totally present and suddenly feel a sense of not only great alertness but almost elation. There was an account a few years ago of, unfortunately if I got this name, a British musician relatively well known but not world famous. And he was given this diagnosis that he would only have another year to live. He walked out of the doctor's office and without going through the state of suffering first,