Our Renewal Changes The Future

Take the red pill daily.

We all know we see what we believe. It’s not the other way around, although we usually live as if it were.

So here’s the question: If we want to live the fullest life possible and express the highest idea of ourselves, is it possible to do so by holding on to a past belief about ourselves?

No, it’s not.

The Bible tells us that every day is the Lord’s Day. Spirit’s Day. Soul’s Day. Every day is a new day.

Science tells us we renew continually. Skin regenerates every twenty-seven days, and most of our body renews every seven to ten years.

In this season of renewal, it’s the perfect time to ask ourselves this question.

If renewal is a fact of life, why is every day, in so many ways, a repeat of the day before? And can we change that?

The answer is yes.

But first, let’s review what we usually do.

We wake up in the morning and hopefully spend a moment recognizing and rejoicing in the new day. If we remember, we might also acknowledge that we, too, are new that day.

Then we do something habitual and ruin the whole thing.

We open the door to the past and invite it into our day. Our past beliefs. Our past fears. Our memory of what worked and what didn’t. Our past beliefs.

We forget that there is no past. There is only now.

The past we remember is inaccurate, anyway. Whenever we think about something from the past, we recreate it in the present.

Not only that, but we change our memories of the past each time we take them out and look at them.

Our past is a false memory claiming to be real.

So, instead of staying aware of a new day, a new person, and a new future, we open a door in our mental home into a room filled with ideas and beliefs from a false past.

They are waiting for us.

We walk into the room, smile, and say hello. We shake hands, nod, bow, and thank them for waiting for us to acknowledge them. After all, who would we be without a past?

In that room, there is at least one belief that we fight every day. They’re like Bozo, the pop-up clown. We hit them, and they pop back up again.

We do that for a bit, remind ourselves that we never win, and then go on with our day infused with the same beliefs we had the day before.

Same past. Same beliefs. Same Story.

And then we wonder why things don’t change. Or only change a little based on what we believe possible, based on our past.

Yes, the past — we are still calling it the past even though it is now—teaches us something. We need to learn from it and then let it go.

What we believe creates our future.

If we want a different one, we have to start with a different set of beliefs. A new point of view. That’s the beginning.

But for that point of view to become the life we experience, it has to be fused with feeling.

Our state of mind has to live in the same place as our point of view.

One without the other changes very little or nothing at all.

And that’s the trouble with opening the door each day to the past. Emotions live there. False memories live there. Beliefs that limit us live there.

We can open the door with good intentions, with the point of view that this is the day the Lord has made, but we are then flooded with memories that override the plan to start anew.

No matter how glorious the past was, it is still not the full representation of the infinite Mind expressing itself.

How do I know?

Because we still live within the Earth’s, Universe’s, set of rules, also known as the Matrix.

If we are serious about recognizing and experiencing our true spiritual nature, we have to let go of the past and our personality that is entwined within it and be reborn in each moment.

Instead of fighting or embracing the past, we can use that focus, energy, and imagination to feel the perfection of divine Love.

In a way, we sacrifice our past lives and are reborn. We rise into a higher awareness of our existence as a spiritual idea in a spiritual universe where good is the only power.

We choose a state of mind infused with the point of view of unlimited and unconditional love, beginning with ourselves.

We start each day not as humans but as spiritual ideas, and that will lift us all out of the human condition and into the spiritual universe, out of the Matrix of agreed-upon perceptions and illusions.

Right here. Right now. We can experience, even if only for a brief flash of insight, heaven on earth.

It is our personal, daily resurrection into Life.

It’s renewal. And that’s how we change the future.

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