Stop being a victim of "Yesterday's News"! Calling on "what was" to deal with "what is"... is like being stranded on a deserted island, without any food, and hoping to make your growing hunger pains go away by reading and re-reading "Best Places to Dine Around Town"... the one magazine that washed up with you when you staggered onto shore.
Here are five examples of where we tend to consult "Yesterday's News." In each case, agreeing to relive any old story is the same as buying a ticket "to-hell-and-back":
1. Anytime we get upset due to imagining how some moment -- yet to come -- is going to prove itself a problem of the painful kind.
2. Anytime we relive the pain of some argument... whether from 10 minutes, or 10 years ago.
3. Any form of anxious handwringing over the process of aging, diminishing health, or the realization of our mortality.
4. Any form of painfully wondering why someone treated us in a certain way.
5. Anytime we judge ourselves, or others, for doing what couldn't have happened in any other way in a moment now past.
Our new and highest possibilities can only be found at a point in time when, and where we have expired our effort to transcend our limited present possibilities by referring to a past that lives only in imagination. Here's why: Look to see where -- on what your thoughts do dwell -- and therein find the entrance to your Heaven... or hell.
