I’m sure you can recall a moment in your life when you fucked up. I do. Plenty of occasions. I don’t have enough fingers on my hands to count them all.
But now I know better, so I can do better for myself and my life experience.
This is it, this is all there is.
Now.
the point of power is always in the present moment
“All events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past.
However, this is your past. It is over and done with. What is important in this moment is what you are choosing to think and believe and say right now. For these thoughts and words will create your future.
Your point of power is in the present moment and is forming the experience of tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, and so on.”
That’s what Louise Hay said.
This reflection on the power of the present moment reminds me of something. A quote I will always hold dear.
If there’s one thing, just one thing, that I learnt from Oprah Winfrey (yes, we are talking about her, sit down!), it is this:
“When you know better you do better.”
Even if this seems like a new agey, silly, meaningless quote, there’s such deep meaning in it. If one can see through the layers, and understand.
It both liberates you from dwelling on negative things and resentment, and encourages you to keep evolving, maturing, getting better.
Close your eyes, think of this image:
you at 15 years old.
Huh! Pimples and all.
Hormones, mistakes, dreams, flaws, desperation, anxiety, cheerfulness, goals, friends, lovers, sadness…
Would you laugh at yourself at that age? Would you punish yourself? Would you hate yourself? Or, would you understand?
This is just an example. I’m sure you can recall a different time, a different lifetime ago.
the key
Be self-critical,
but do not be sadistic about your criticism.
There’s a difference.
in three acts
analyse, learn your lesson, move on.
In that precise order.
breaking them down
Do not dwell on the things that went wrong. Understand why they went wrong. What part were you playing (because you were playing a part, no matter how small), what could you have done or not. Take notes. Remember.
Learn. Think about it. Extract the useful lesson.
Mind you, even a bad experience in which you had no part or responsibility has a lesson to learn. The lesson is about getting stronger, more resilient, and again, learning to let go.
Don’t play with the temptation of being the star of the show as the victim. You are for a period of time, then you move on, you play another character. You are the protagonist of the show. The one who saw it, who lived it, who fought, who lost, who survived, who decided to revive from the ashes.
There is light at the end of the tunnel if one decides to keep on walking.
The present moment.
Move on. You are living in the now.
Every precise moment, every present moment, second by second, has the potential for you to claim it.
Claim it your way.
Make it your own.
Here. Now. With what you have, with what you know now.
Onward.
Love,
Noemi
PS: This is the third part of a series of articles in which I’m talking about Louise Hay’s philosophy key points. See the others here.
