Emotional Damage is Not Your Personality
Daily Meditation #409–4/10/2023
Here’s the thing.
We’re all emotionally damaged.
Some of us may even have PTSD, nightmares, or be medicated.
But our past — specifically our “demons” — cannot be our personalities.
Our illnesses cannot be our social media headlines.
It isn’t good for us to put so much perceptual focus onto that which we perceive as “bad” for us.
If you’ve got the flu — 104 fever, shakes, stuffy nose, raw throat, and no appetite — which is better?
Saying “I’m so sick!” over and over, temping yourself every 30 minutes, and moaning and groaning endlessly?
Or, insisting “Tomorrow I will feel better than today. My body is a powerful machine that will correct itself!”
We speak into existence so much of our reality, so why would we emphasize that which we perceive as our traumas as elements of our personalities?
Instead let’s speak forth that we are healed (or healing). Let’s speak forth how strong we are for having overcome.
Let’s focus on the now.
Let the past be dead.
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These are distillations from my coming book “YouDaimonia: the Ancient Philosophy of Human Flourishing.”
