Our reading for April 24th comes from our featured Calendar Book for 2013, "The Journey: A Calendar Book"... "Lie in bed with the window open and recall childhood".
The past has a direct effect on the present just as the present affects t...he future tremendously. Our current feelings, personality traits and behaviors were shaped by past events.
Every experience we have been through as a child dramatically impacts our life, even ones which might seem irrelevant or unimportant.
Our past is currently affecting our present and it will keep affecting the future. The key to experiencing a positive "now" is to become aware of the connection between the past and future?
The earliest of childhood memories are the source from which we first begin to form beliefs about the world. The question is, how can this past event affect our lives later past adolescence.
Thus events at any given point in our lives can be catalysts for positivity today. Twenty-six years ago my life was very different; I was a newlywed starting a new career in a strange place. I fondly recall lying in bed in the upstairs bedroom of our first "rental" home with the window open beside my new bride. As we listened to the quietness of the night we shared remembrances of our childhoods when we would spend the night with our grandparent/grandparents and lie by the open window doing just as we were then; appreciating the stillness.
This memory from those 26 years long ago as a totally different individual still affects me today. It helps me be able to critically evaluate myself and draw positivity from events which otherwise would seem not so positive. I am a better individual due to this and similar events in my past.
Allow yourself to recollect in the stillness. Allow yourself to take from your past those things which brought you joy. These "special" memories can still bring you joy in the "here and now".
Keep looking up. : ) AJ
The past has a direct effect on the present just as the present affects t...he future tremendously. Our current feelings, personality traits and behaviors were shaped by past events.
Every experience we have been through as a child dramatically impacts our life, even ones which might seem irrelevant or unimportant.
Our past is currently affecting our present and it will keep affecting the future. The key to experiencing a positive "now" is to become aware of the connection between the past and future?
The earliest of childhood memories are the source from which we first begin to form beliefs about the world. The question is, how can this past event affect our lives later past adolescence.
Thus events at any given point in our lives can be catalysts for positivity today. Twenty-six years ago my life was very different; I was a newlywed starting a new career in a strange place. I fondly recall lying in bed in the upstairs bedroom of our first "rental" home with the window open beside my new bride. As we listened to the quietness of the night we shared remembrances of our childhoods when we would spend the night with our grandparent/grandparents and lie by the open window doing just as we were then; appreciating the stillness.
This memory from those 26 years long ago as a totally different individual still affects me today. It helps me be able to critically evaluate myself and draw positivity from events which otherwise would seem not so positive. I am a better individual due to this and similar events in my past.
Allow yourself to recollect in the stillness. Allow yourself to take from your past those things which brought you joy. These "special" memories can still bring you joy in the "here and now".
Keep looking up. : ) AJ
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