party, he interrupted everyone’s meal so he could present his wife with a
new BMW. You’re certain, as you’ve told your partner the whole week
leading up to the cookout, that this is going to be one miserable day. And it
becomes exactly that. You run a stop sign and get a ticket. One of your co-
workers spills a beer on your pants and shirt. The hamburger that you
requested be done medium-well comes to you barely beyond raw.
Given your attitude (your state of being) going in, how could you have
expected things to turn out any other way? You woke up anticipating that
this day was slated to be a horror show, and it turned out that way. You
alternated between obsessing about an unwanted future (anticipating what
would come next) and living in the past (comparing stimuli you were
receiving to what you received previously), so you created more of the
same.
If you start keeping track of your thoughts and write them down, you’ll
find that most of the time, you are either thinking ahead or looking back.
Live Your Desired New Future in the Precious Present
So here’s another of those big questions: If you know that by staying
present and severing or pruning your connections with the past, you can
have access to all the possible outcomes in the quantum field, why would
you choose to live in the past and keep creating the same future for
yourself? Why wouldn’t you do what is already in your power to do—to
mentally alter the physical makeup of your brain and body so that you can
be changed ahead of any actual desired experience? Why wouldn’t you opt
for living in the future of your choice—now, ahead of time?
Instead of obsessing about some traumatic or stressful event that you fear
is in your future, based on your experience of the past, obsess about a new,
desired experience that you haven’t yet embraced emotionally. Allow
yourself to live in that potential new future now, to the extent that your body
begins to accept or believe that you’re experiencing the elevated emotions
of that new future outcome in the present moment. (You’re going to learn
how to do this.)
Remember when I said that my daughter needed to live her present life
like she’d already had the experiences of the great summer in Italy? By