Often, one of our biggest questions is "What's going to happen?" We may ask this about our relationships, our career, our recovery, and our life. It is easy to tangle us up in worrisome thoughts.
Worrying about what's going to happen blocks us from functioning effectively today. It keeps us from doing our best now. It blocks us from learning and mastering today's lessons. Staying in the now, doing our best, and participating fully today are all we need to do to assure ourselves that what's going to happen tomorrow will be for the best.
Worrying about what's going to happen is a negative contribution to our future. Living in the here and now is ultimately the best thing we can do, not only for today, but also for tomorrow. It helps our relationships, our career, our recovery, and our life.
Things will work out, if we let them. If we must focus on the future other than to plan, all we need to do is affirm that it will be good.
I pray for faith that my future will be good if I live today well, and in peace. I will remember that staying in the present is the best thing I can do for my future. I will focus on what's happening now instead of what's going to happen tomorrow. From The Language of Letting Go
Thanks so much for your post. I have been so fearful of what I think is going to happen at work. I needed to hear about staying in the moment. I have been praying every morning for my HP to keep me free of fear and help me to believe that I will be ok but then I go into work and things happen and I find my heart racing and the fear coming in. I decided to look online and see if there was somewhere I can read or write about whats going on inside me right now and found this message board and your post. For me it seems it is so easy to stay in the moment until something rocks my world (if you know what I mean) then I am in my head.
Would appreciate if you could say a small prayer for me too.
I realized many times when I would dwell in these fears and worries that what I built in such a mode as something that might happen has mostly never happened in the future course of events.
I identify this as my disease of addiction giving me constant messages to build a castle in these fears and start living there so that my addiction can conveniently rob me of my present by crippling me into inertia and apathy.
Just For Today, in the here and now... what a concept, so powerful and yet so simplifying... Surrendering to the magic of the moment is one thing that my Sponsor hammered into my recovery so profoundly that I'm no more able to romanticize with my future fears and worries for more than a minute or two... what a loss (lol)...
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"If we do an honest examination of exactly what we are giving, we are better able to evaluate the results we are getting."Chapter 10 - Emotional Pain - NA Way of Life.
