Today's
Meditation:
What
happened yesterday is already in the past, and there's no
need to dwell on it. Doing so weighs down our minds
and hearts with information and feelings that already have
had their day and don't need another. What's going
to happen tomorrow will be taken care of and experienced
tomorrow, and worrying or thinking about it too much takes
much of our precious focus away from what's going on right
here, right now--the only place and time that truly
matter.
I
had troubles yesterday, but they're past now. I
dealt with them as well as I could, and some of them have
even bled into today. Today, though, I'm going to
take care of what I need to do today. Parts of those
troubles are here, but I'm only dealing with parts
now. And if my focus is on the present moment, I'll
be able to deal with them much more effectively by looking
at them for what they are today and not looking at them as
part of much larger problems yesterday. Other
troubles that I might have had yesterday--poor weather, a
rude person at the supermarket, a poorly played game by
the team I coach--are now gone, and hurt me only if I
bring them into my today.
Many
of the things that I've worried about happening in the
"future" have never come to pass--so many
things, in fact, that I've come to a point at which I
don't get too concerned about the possibility of anything
happening in the future any more. As long as I take
care of my todays, my tomorrows tend to be quite
manageable when they show up.
We
tend to choose how heavy our burden to bear is, and we can
choose to relieve ourselves of much of it, making it
lighter and less oppressive if we want to. If we
deal with all that faces us at this moment and leave for
tomorrow what tomorrow demands of us, then our right nows
can be much more pleasant.
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