How to Keep Today Shiny and New
Does Today Feel Like Yesterday?
I could feel the bone-shaking spinning and hear the crunch as the car hit the central reservation long after the accident.
Even though I was safely tucked up in bed. That happened yesterday, and today is a new day.
When you think about the past event and bring it into your awareness, you feel the same powerful emotion you had at the time, even though the event isn’t happening now.
Studies report how the amygdala area of your brain doesn’t know if a threat was in the past or is happening now, so every time you activate a memory, it feels real.
I didn’t need to bring yesterday into today and feel as scared as I did then.
How often do you bring your yesterday into today? Or do the same things you did yesterday?
Or repeat today the same things you did yesterday?
You Aren’t the Parent You Were Yesterday
How often do you bring yesterday into today? How frequently do you wake up and immediately think about something that happened the day before? And then feel stressed?
Research reports that this type of rumination leads to anxiety and depression.
