The saying is meant to help people with addiction (us included) to focus on the now and not the past or future. Remember, if you are living in the past you're depressed, if you are living in the future you're anxious, if you are living in the present you are content. All forms of addiction have anxiety and depression feelings linked to it, so it's best to focus on the present moments and take things one day at a time. However, sometimes a whole 24 hours is too much pressure for us to handle all at once. So, I encourage you to take things one hour at a time instead! If you are having an issue, a pain, a moron client, whatever...take it for that hour, deal with it, then let it go. If you are having a good time, are happy, are relaxed...build on that, absorb the positive feelings and enjoy the moment that is making you smile. Eventually, like writing down your negative thoughts, the bad moments won't seem as bad and won't stick in our minds for long while the good moments will carry us through the day.
Today I had some ups and downs, as I'm sure everyone did. I went most of the day w/o stomach pain but it started to come back around noon. So I told myself that yes, I know the pain is there, but it's not severe, and therefore I am not going to feed into the mind games my brain tends to play when I have a pain. In other words, I gave it no power and chose to continue on with my day. The next hour was lunch so that was good (fatty likes to eat). The rest of the day just crawled along and was even keel. My last 15 minutes of work turned into a 45 minute wait for a client who said she'd be at my office to drop something off within that 15 minutes. The more I waited, the more upset it made me. However, her rudeness is none of my control. Although it made me mad, I chose to focus on the wonderful pedi present my mom scheduled for me for 5pm and I left those feelings at work. FF to my spa pedicure when I happily picked out a pretty purple color that made me happy just to look at it and I eagerly hopped in the chair with a book I've been trying to finish for over a year. Although I do have issues with them sanding my feet, I kept telling myself to just relax with it an enjoy it. And, I did! One hour of being pampered was amazing and now my Freddy Krueger toes are cut back and pretty again. Even hours later I'm still feeling the affects of this amazing time my mom gave to me and I'm relaxed and ready to face tomorrow. So, even though my day had bad parts, I took it one hour at a time, one issue at a time and it still turned out to be a really good day regardless of the speed bumps that I had to slow down and climb myself over.
There's a saying out there somewhere about not letting a bad moment turn into a bad day or a bad day turning into a bad life. I'll have to find it, but you get the gist. One bad moment shouldn't delegate how the rest of your day should go. If you let it, you will be missing out on so many amazing moments. Instead of living one bad moment to another, try to live one great moment to another. So think back about your day today and list the amazing moments you had, even if they seem small. Allow yourself to be happy.
Much Love and Light~
Tammy
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