Helpful Affirmation
“I accept the wonderful miracle of a greater present, making this the best day of my life.”
I wrote that down one day to provide a link for myself to a memory of a certain feeling-attitude within me that made everything seem okay, like I was moment-by-moment feeling my way through life in the best possible way. The experience of having that pure attitude didn’t last very long — that’s why I wrote down some words in hopes of reenacting such a self-helpful mood at will. They are not very accurate words. It’s like going to the circus, not knowing it is called a circus, and noting it as “elephant cotton-candy place.” But then I noticed reading the words they work as an “affirmation”, I remember the feeling or attitude and it grows stronger, or at least my memory of it does.
That paragraph I just wrote is observation.
Which is more useful, affirmation or observation?
One is objectively stating what is, the other is trying to make exist what could be — but in doing so may misrepresent how things actually are right now. If I say, “I accept the wonderful miracle of a greater present, making this the best day of my life” to try to recapture that mood in present tense, it is like a magical incantation, but if there’s no actual magic to it, it is simply a false observation.
Do you have any memories of a time when your feeling-attitude toward life and everything made you more holistically alive, complete, and capable? Did you or could you write down a sentence that summons up or represents that attitude? What sentence would you write?
any other positive and constructive opinions are welcome.
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“I accept the wonderful miracle of a greater present, making this the best day of my life.”
I wrote that down one day to provide a link for myself to a memory of a certain feeling-attitude within me that made everything seem okay, like I was moment-by-moment feeling my way through life in the best possible way. The experience of having that pure attitude didn’t last very long — that’s way I wrote down some words in hopes of reenacting such a self-helpful mood at wil. They are not very accurate words. It’s like going to the circus, not knowing it is called a circus, and noting it as “elephant cotton-candy place.” But then I noticed reading the words they work as an “affirmation”, I remember the feeling or attitude and it grows stronger, or at least my memory of it does.
That paragraph I just wrote is observation.
Which is more useful, affirmation or observation?
One is objectively stating what is, the other is trying to make exist what could be — but in doing so may misrepresent how things actually are right now. (If I say, “I accept the wonderful miracle of a greater present, making this the best day of my life” to try to recapture that mood in present tense, it is like a magical incantation, but if there’s no actual magic to it, it is simply a false observation.
Do you have any memories of a time when your feeling-attitude toward life and everything made you more holistically alive, complete, and capable? Did you or could you write down a sentence that summons up or represents that attitude? What sentence would you write?
any other positive and constructive opinions are welcome.
Michael Leibman edited this post 1 year, 5 months ago. Read the previous text »
“I accept the wonderful miracle of a greater present, making this the best day of my life.”
I wrote that down one day to provide a link for myself to a memory of a certain feeling-attitude within me that made everything seem okay, like I was moment-by-moment feeling my way through life in the best possible way. The experience of having that pure attitude didn’t last very long — that’s why I wrote down some words in hopes of reenacting such a self-helpful mood at will. They are not very accurate words. It’s like going to the circus, not knowing it is called a circus, and noting it as “elephant cotton-candy place.” But then I noticed reading the words they work as an “affirmation”, I remember the feeling or attitude and it grows stronger, or at least my memory of it does.
That paragraph I just wrote is observation.
Which is more useful, affirmation or observation?
One is objectively stating what is, the other is trying to make exist what could be — but in doing so may misrepresent how things actually are right now. (If I say, “I accept the wonderful miracle of a greater present, making this the best day of my life” to try to recapture that mood in present tense, it is like a magical incantation, but if there’s no actual magic to it, it is simply a false observation.
Do you have any memories of a time when your feeling-attitude toward life and everything made you more holistically alive, complete, and capable? Did you or could you write down a sentence that summons up or represents that attitude? What sentence would you write?
any other positive and constructive opinions are welcome.
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Michael Leibman edited this post 10 months, 1 week ago. Read the previous text »
“I accept the wonderful miracle of a greater present, making this the best day of my life.”
I wrote that down one day to provide a link for myself to a memory of a certain feeling-attitude within me that made everything seem okay, like I was moment-by-moment feeling my way through life in the best possible way. The experience of having that pure attitude didn’t last very long — that’s why I wrote down some words in hopes of reenacting such a self-helpful mood at will. They are not very accurate words. It’s like going to the circus, not knowing it is called a circus, and noting it as “elephant cotton-candy place.” But then I noticed reading the words they work as an “affirmation”, I remember the feeling or attitude and it grows stronger, or at least my memory of it does.
That paragraph I just wrote is observation.
Which is more useful, affirmation or observation?
One is objectively stating what is, the other is trying to make exist what could be — but in doing so may misrepresent how things actually are right now. If I say, “I accept the wonderful miracle of a greater present, making this the best day of my life” to try to recapture that mood in present tense, it is like a magical incantation, but if there’s no actual magic to it, it is simply a false observation.
Do you have any memories of a time when your feeling-attitude toward life and everything made you more holistically alive, complete, and capable? Did you or could you write down a sentence that summons up or represents that attitude? What sentence would you write?
any other positive and constructive opinions are welcome.
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