What is Real and What is
Imagined
As I wrote
yesterday, your brain does not know the difference between what you see and
what you imagine. The mind however, is a different matter. It holds onto and
builds upon every memory and each experience.
These abilities can be used to your
advantage. They can also work to your disadvantage.
Many years
ago, when I had just graduated from Jacksonville University, I took a job with
the city in the Victim’s Assistance Office as a researcher. The job required
that I design forms and questionnaires and I also helped conduct a city-wide
survey assessing the experiences of victims of crimes. It was important work.
People who
have been victims of even what we’d think of as indirect acts of crime,
experience trauma and often have a very difficult time recovering.
One of the
things that stood out in the research was the level of fear of crime in comparison
to the actual experience thereof.
People were more prepared for burglary
than they were prepared to read to their children. We have more fear of someone
coming into our home at night than we do of the destruction we do in our own
homes to one another.
Over and
over again I would ask respondents about the degree to which they expected to
be violated and then I would ask if they had ever been. They would say they had
never been and then they would go on and on about how they had to be ready.
Today, I want you to be ready to be happy,
healthy and loved.
Arm your life with an alarm that
tells you when you are about to be unhappy and then quickly do something about
it. Imagine that you are happy. Imagine that you are well. Imagine that you are
whole.
Begin to see yourself
in the state you desire rather than the one you fear. You can manifest either.
See yourself
as beautiful, smart and loved. Imagine that you have what you need and begin to
live that way.
Smile,
breathe, love more deeply than ever before and when adversity comes, you will
be prepared.
I have been
victimized and abused, but I refuse to be what happened to me.
I am a
reflection of Love on earth.
Be you, be
well, be LOVE
Bertice
Berry, PhD.
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