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Friday, September 17, 2010

Where do you go?

Where do you go when your eyes are closed? Do you see happy, joyful images? Or dangerous, scary ones? Are these images imagined? Or are they memories, experiences, and moments that are important to you? Do you see both? Why do you think you see what you see? Go deeper. Can you hear anything? Is it music, or something powerful someone once spoke to you? Or is it something mean and hurtful? What do you smell? Open your eyes. Now pick a specific memory you have. First, pick a good one. Close your eyes and fall back in time. Let the entire memory take over you. See it, feel it, hear it, smell it. Let it sink in. Now open your eyes once more. Now, pick a bad memory you have. Close your eyes and do what you did with your good memory. Except this time, end the memory with the way you wanted it to end. Really feel the new outcome you have chosen. Do you feel it? Now open your eyes. This new outcome you have chosen, will never happen, because of course, you cannot change the past. But perhaps with the new outcome you have chosen, this bad memory will no longer haunt you the way it did before. We do not have the power to change our past, but we can choose how we live with it.

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