Today or Yesterdat

“I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday.” – Gary Chapman

If someone tells you they have no baggage, run as fast as you can.  We all have baggage, and that is part of what made us who we are today.  I think I have my baggage down to the manageable size of a backpack, but there are days where I feel like I am dragging around a damn steamer trunk.  The difference now is I know when I’m doing it and can adjust accordingly. Prior to learning baggage management, 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, the brain is simplistic in some ways.  It can bring up some hurt from the past and we begin to relive those feelings.  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, and there is an actual term for it, 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 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 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, and it is adjustable.  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.