12/04/2022
Practice, Practice, practice 🔥
For most people, living in the safety and comfort of the known past is a lot safer than stepping out into the unknown future. Living in the past also validates all of the traumas and betrayals we’ve had in our life. What most people don’t realize, however, is that when we excuse ourselves for someone or something, we give away our power to that person, thing, or event in the past, and as a result, we give away our power and ability to change.
When something with such a strong emotional quotient occurs in our life, the brain freezes the scene and takes a snapshot of the event. When we think and feel for long enough within the confines of the event’s neurochemistry, it ultimately becomes our state of being.
If you wake up in the morning and start to think about your problems, the moment you think about the memory of that problem, you’re thinking in the past. Because thoughts are the language of the brain and feelings are the language of the body, now your brain and body are completely in the past. Thus, if those negative emotions are driving your thoughts, and you can’t think greater than how you feel, you are thinking in the past.
How do we break the cycle?
Here are some practical tips to free yourself from the past:
1) Write down your negative thoughts, behaviors, and the emotions that you’re no longer going to live by. Every day, review them to the point where they are so familiar to you that you catch yourself from going unconscious.
2) Write down the new thoughts you do want to fire and wire in your brain and take some time every day, to consciously fire and wire them in your brain until they become more known.
3) Each day, rehearse the behaviors you’re going to demonstrate in your life. That means close your eyes and in a relaxed state, begin to install the neurological hardware of how you’re going to be during the day.
4) Every time you meditate, teach your body emotionally what your future is going to feel like—and don’t get up until you feel like that person.