Good Saturday morning Absville! I, for one, am SOOOO glad it?s the weekend. :happy:
This past week has been a tough one at work and the next two are going to be just as busy. But this weekend I plan to relax and enjoy the break.
One of my long-standing problems is that I tend to either let the past bog me down, or worry too much about the future. In doing that, I often neglect to focus on the present. Am I the only one of us that does that?
I found something about this in one of my Hazelden meditation books. I hope they don?t mind if I borrow from them.
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?There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept from fear and apprehension. One of those days is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed. We cannot erase a single word we said. Yesterday is gone beyond recall.
The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow, with its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise, and perhaps its poor performance. Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow?s sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise. Until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is as yet unborn.
This leaves only one day ? today. Anyone can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the burden of those two awful entities, yesterday and tomorrow, that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drives us mad. It is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened yesterday or the dread of something which tomorrow will bring. Let us therefore do our best to live but one day at a time.?
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Amen!
So, while I cannot forget the past, and while I want to have goals and hope for the future, I need to keep my feet firmly planted in today. I find this very hard to do sometimes.
How do you stay grounded in the here and now?
This past week has been a tough one at work and the next two are going to be just as busy. But this weekend I plan to relax and enjoy the break.
One of my long-standing problems is that I tend to either let the past bog me down, or worry too much about the future. In doing that, I often neglect to focus on the present. Am I the only one of us that does that?
I found something about this in one of my Hazelden meditation books. I hope they don?t mind if I borrow from them.
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?There are two days in every week about which we should not worry, two days which should be kept from fear and apprehension. One of those days is yesterday, with its mistakes and cares, its faults and blunders, its aches and pains. Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control. All the money in the world cannot bring back yesterday. We cannot undo a single act we performed. We cannot erase a single word we said. Yesterday is gone beyond recall.
The other day we should not worry about is tomorrow, with its possible adversities, its burdens, its large promise, and perhaps its poor performance. Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control. Tomorrow?s sun will rise, either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise. Until it does, we have no stake in tomorrow, for it is as yet unborn.
This leaves only one day ? today. Anyone can fight the battles of just one day. It is only when you and I add the burden of those two awful entities, yesterday and tomorrow, that we break down. It is not the experience of today that drives us mad. It is the remorse or bitterness of something which happened yesterday or the dread of something which tomorrow will bring. Let us therefore do our best to live but one day at a time.?
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Amen!
So, while I cannot forget the past, and while I want to have goals and hope for the future, I need to keep my feet firmly planted in today. I find this very hard to do sometimes.
How do you stay grounded in the here and now?
, as well as complaining about how hard his life is right now and blah, blah, blah..... Gee, why would I want formal legal documents from a deadbeat dad who owes me gobs of $$$ and went and had a second child when he wasn't even paying for the first child? Aren't I just so mean?? Unfortunately, it took me a long time to realize that I can only have a little bit of empathy for him before it turns into not taking care of my own needs and interests. So anyway, all of this makes me pretty anxious, which is rather dumb, considering that I hold all the trump cards in this case. So I will be working hard not to worry about tomorrow!! I must say, I think that my response to him was a masterful piece of writing!
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