Live Each Day Fully and Joyfully

“It is perfectly fine to make plans for the future, but each individual should live day by day, without worrying about the outcome of those plans.

“The physical body can only react in the present moment. Worrying about future events, or dwelling on past unfavorable situations, only confuses the body’s mechanisms and weakens its precise activity in the present moment.

“I am not saying that one should pretend that unfavorable circumstances do not sometimes exist, or that they cannot be found in the past, present, or future.

“It is also true, however, that advantageous events occur with far greater frequency than do negative ones — otherwise the world that you know simply would not exist. It would have disappeared in the throes of destruction or calamity.

“In a basic way, it is against nature’s purposes to contemplate a dire future, for all of nature operates on the premise that the future is assured. Nature is everywhere full of promise — not only the promise of mere survival, but the promise of beauty and fulfillment.

“This keen sense of promise is innate within every portion of the body. It triggers the genes and chromosomes into their proper activity, and promotes feelings of optimism, exuberance, and strength. …

“Live each day as fully and joyfully as possible. Imagine the best possible results of any plans or projects. Above all, do not dwell on past unfavorable events, or imagined future ones.”

SETH – The Way Toward Health