The more I can keep myself grounded in the here & now, the more I'm able to accept where I am. That means if I catch myself re-running something dumb I said this morning, I have to stop that tape & throw it out. I'm a visual person (& I'm old)--so I use tapes instead of CDs because tapes can be destroyed so dramatically!

I imagine unwinding the tape behind me as I speed off at 90 mph in my Jag. There, guilt! Begone! (I don't have a Jag, except in in my grounding exercises. Hey, why not?)

The future is just as dangerous, with all those projections of dire disasters that "might" strike because of stupid things that useless me will probably do--STOP!!

Can't go there ... That's against the rules, too. Destroy that tape! Unwind it into a trash barrel, set it on fire, and toast marshmallows over the flames.

Get the idea?

This is serious stuff, but it's okay to make a kind of game out of it if it makes you remember it better. The point is, these are all just old messages that we hang onto from long ago. Time to clean out the closets.

That's what I do anyway. And I take a lot of deep breaths, too.

Roadie