Have you ever been so in love that you felt as though you had broken through some existential barrier and the rules no longer applied to you? Have you ever accomplished something so big, so important and difficult, that you believed, even for a moment, that you could do anything you wanted?
The feelings that come when we achieve an extraordinary goal are impossible to communicate, or even remember properly. We can describe them to others in only the barest terms, never truly conveying their impact on us. And over time, the raw power and energy we experienced in the moment will fade or change.
That’s why appreciating the triumphs of our life is so important. It’s very possible to celebrate your best qualities without becoming a proud jackass and, we need to protect our good memories. Keeping a journal and meditating on success for psychic strength is the best way to do that!
Visualizing your life as a series of steps that lead to a greater purpose means honoring your failures and accomplishments with honesty and compassion. Every motivational speaker and self help guru in the world will tell you to use failures as lessons, and that is great advice, but it’s also important to look at failure as a necessary part of the journey to success.
Our minds like to exaggerate and embellish, in order to make everything that happens more exciting and important. Failures may become more dramatic (and discouraging) the more we remember them as failure, instead of as an essential building block of our lives.
Our minds may distort memories that could help us into hurtful moments we don’t want to remember. It’s incredibly important to deal with big events and profound change by writing them down as soon as we can.
With a fresh record of what we’ve been through, good or bad, we can check our steps and regain perspective as our journey continues.
If you’re not keeping a journal today, start tomorrow. Writing down the day’s events is simply the best way to keep a steady hold on your vision and manage your attitude. A record of what you’ve done or tried to do not only fixes an accurate account you can refer to later, it also helps you let go of the day and move more easily into your future.
If you’re not meditating on success today, start tomorrow, preferably after you’ve finished the day’s journal entry. Following up your daily journal entries with a focused meditation improves your memory and couples your actions with your life goals more clearly. It’s very important to measure your progress every day and check in with yourself – not to judge and punish, but acknowledge.
In this process, treat your successes differently than your failures. Examine each success and celebrate it as an unqualified good thing. Be grateful you had the result, but also acknowledge the difficulties you overcame so you can remember how it all came together.
If you weren’t able to accomplish a goal for that day, or you got something wrong, think of it clearly and then use a phrase like, “I didn’t get the result I wanted, but by missing this, I have become a better person and stronger in my life’s pursuit.” Then let it go! Recognizing the struggle and remembering your path through it will give you resilience for the future.
After spending the time you need to on this, do some deep breathing and visualize the path you’ve chosen for your life, and the goals and achievements that you’re working towards.
With the day’s success and finished struggle fresh in your mind, consider how fortunate you are to be able to carry on the journey and repeat a phrase such as, “I am a good, strong person. I deserve the happiness and good life that this world offers.” You can achieve a spirit of gratitude very quickly, anytime you need it, by repeating a phrase like this with an acknowledgement of your good fortune.
While it’s best to do this routine before bedtime, and be consistent about the time of day, you will sometimes have to change your patterns to suit an unpredictable life. Sometimes, you’ll have only a few minutes to devote to this and you’ll be tempted to just skip it for one day, due to unforeseen difficulties. Don’t!
Even if you have to go through it quickly after getting to bed much later and more stressed than usual, consciously do each part of it and finish. You cannot let the vagaries of life dictate terms and still keep your dreams alive.
If there is a day or two where you don’t do it, make sure to not beat yourself up and turn it into an unpleasant chore or a reason to be upset with yourself. This routine will make you a stronger person, with a better memory and much better reactions to stress, so you need to keep it as a prized moment in your day, like those last few minutes of your shift, or a really good meal (dessert)!
Our brains have a way of turning our best habits into things we resent or dislike, so always approach this practice with an attitude of joy and purpose. Journaling, meditating and the conscious act of restating your life’s plan with kindness and gratitude will help you more than anything else to stay on course. Be glad you’re doing it!
It doesn’t matter how big or small your success is! Remembering how you got through an awful mistake while celebrating your survival and learning is all it takes to help convince yourself that you are worthy of more success! The greatest gift you can give yourself is to believe you deserve to have the life you’ve planned. So:
1. Repeat, “I am a good person and I deserve to be happy and live a good life” every time you have the chance. Every single time you have the chance.
2. Set aside at least ten minutes every single day before you go to sleep and write down a brief memory of the day, focusing on the successes, however small.
3. Celebrate the day with gratitude and kindness, understanding your plan is coming to life.
4. Refocus on and reevaluate your life plan, writing down any changes you’ve decided to make.
5. Meditate, focusing on your day’s success.
6. Continue meditating, focusing on your life plan.
7. Finish meditating on success by focusing on gratitude and your self worth.
After a few days, you’ll adapt this list to your own schedule and habits; it will become a sensible routine you can get through happily. When you make it your own blueprint for better mental health, better memory and growing self-esteem, you’ll be able to celebrate its success each day, the way you celebrate the others. And you’ll feel better as success builds on success.
Using encouraging statements acknowledging your self-worth may seem silly, but you will find it a huge help in keeping your attitude more positive. You can get through irritating moments of life better and faster when you have a favorable outlook, especially if your life’s plan is always in your mind’s eye. Keep it there. Meditate on it. Meditate on success. Be good to yourself.
And, be good to others! Meditating on success is only part of it. You need to be honest with yourself in order for this to work and telling yourself you’re a good person and worthy of a good life needs to be true!
Before you know it, you’ll experience that powerful feeling of psychic strength, the feeling like being in love, of accomplishing things so difficult and important, you just know you can do anything! Your life is truly a gift that is only yours to have and celebrate.
Mark Schneider
After a full, but empty career of writing, editing, producing and directing, Mark has settled into a life of sharing and learning, hoping to make many experiences into a teachable wisdom.
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