Thursday Oct.28.2010. Living Today—SOM Magazine
It is not the particular negative experience through which we have gone in the past that destroy our happiness, but rather our emotional reaction to those experiences carried in the reservoir of memory. Many people suffer complete defeat without having really been defeated; others succumb in the first time anything goes wrong. It is one of the aims of psychometric medicine, analytical psychology, and psychiatry to drain out the negative mental and emotional reactions to previous experiences. This is just as real an infection of the mind as there is of any part of the physical body.
Almost invariably, our negative reactions to life, our unhappiness, and perhaps most of our physical disorders are based on unhappy experiences that are buried, but buried alive, in our memories. But yesterday can have no reality to us other than as the lengthened shadow of yesterday. And so it is that as the impulsions of yesterday are carried over into today, making today happy or disconsolate, so the reactions of today are prophetic of what we shall experience tomorrow.
Affirmation:
Yesterday is gone, tomorrow has not arrived, and I live in an eternal present filled with an everlasting good. There is nothing unhappy or morbid in my consciousness. I have no fear of yesterday, nor do I anticipate tomorrow with anything other than enthusiastic expectation. Everything good in my experience shall create my future. I have no fear in looking backward or forward, but realize the eternal day in which I now live. Today is big with hope fulfilled, with love and life well lived. Tomorrow will provide its own blessings.
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