“I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday.” – Gary Chapman
If you meet someone that tells you they have no baggage, run and run as fast as you can. We all have baggage from the past. That baggage is part of what made us who we are today. For the most part, I think I have my baggage down to the manageable size of a backpack, but there are indeed days where I feel like I am dragging around a damn steamer trunk full of my issues from the past. The difference now is that I know when I’m doing it as I can feel it. Prior to “learning”, I wondered why I would feel so tired and down some days. Dragging yesterday into today will wear you smooth out.
To be such a powerful device, our brain is really simplistic in some ways. It can bring up some hurt from the past and we begin to relive those feelings and hurts associated with the event. You really do relive them as your brain, specifically your subconscious, cannot distinguish between an actual event and visualized event? If you visualize it happening, the ole ball of gray matter thinks it did happen. There is a term called visual motor rehearsal.
Dr. Denis Waitely, a noted psychologist, first used visualization at NASA. It’s was an experiment conducted with the astronauts to see how the brain works when visualizing an activity as opposed to actually doing the activity. He applied the same technique, called visual motor rehearsal, to some Olympic sprinters. One group actually ran the race while the others visualized the event. The scientists discovered the same muscles fired in the visualization group as did the actual runners. The conclusion was that the brain does not know the difference between the actual event and a “visualized” event. If you are thinking it, your brain believes you are doing it.
We all sometimes mess up today with yesterday. No matter how hard you try to avoid it, it is going to happen. Egos, insecurities, event triggers, or whatever you want to call it, our past plays a part in the present; however, we determine the amount of time we spend in yesterday. It is indeed adjustable. There are days where it seems like I can’t get out of a funk and then others that are totally funk free. The difference now is that I know what it feels like when it’s coming, if I’m staying in it too long, and when it passes.
Every day is indeed a new day. Will you choose to accept the new day for everything it has to bring, or will you beat it up with yesterday? It’s your choice.
Rodney - New and Improved Since April 1st!
If you meet someone that tells you they have no baggage, run and run as fast as you can. We all have baggage from the past. That baggage is part of what made us who we are today. For the most part, I think I have my baggage down to the manageable size of a backpack, but there are indeed days where I feel like I am dragging around a damn steamer trunk full of my issues from the past. The difference now is that I know when I’m doing it as I can feel it. Prior to “learning”, I wondered why I would feel so tired and down some days. Dragging yesterday into today will wear you smooth out.
To be such a powerful device, our brain is really simplistic in some ways. It can bring up some hurt from the past and we begin to relive those feelings and hurts associated with the event. You really do relive them as your brain, specifically your subconscious, cannot distinguish between an actual event and visualized event? If you visualize it happening, the ole ball of gray matter thinks it did happen. There is a term called visual motor rehearsal.
Dr. Denis Waitely, a noted psychologist, first used visualization at NASA. It’s was an experiment conducted with the astronauts to see how the brain works when visualizing an activity as opposed to actually doing the activity. He applied the same technique, called visual motor rehearsal, to some Olympic sprinters. One group actually ran the race while the others visualized the event. The scientists discovered the same muscles fired in the visualization group as did the actual runners. The conclusion was that the brain does not know the difference between the actual event and a “visualized” event. If you are thinking it, your brain believes you are doing it.
We all sometimes mess up today with yesterday. No matter how hard you try to avoid it, it is going to happen. Egos, insecurities, event triggers, or whatever you want to call it, our past plays a part in the present; however, we determine the amount of time we spend in yesterday. It is indeed adjustable. There are days where it seems like I can’t get out of a funk and then others that are totally funk free. The difference now is that I know what it feels like when it’s coming, if I’m staying in it too long, and when it passes.
Every day is indeed a new day. Will you choose to accept the new day for everything it has to bring, or will you beat it up with yesterday? It’s your choice.
Rodney - New and Improved Since April 1st!
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