Stay ahead of the dread – better now.

Wednesday, November 20, 2024

Everyone seems to have a certain ability to sense the future. Sometimes this is heightened when we’re in danger, and we get that strange feeling. The hairs on the back of the neck stand up. You feel compelled to act or you just know. Imminence is hard to describe, but it’s always there. Is it a feeling, a thought, or an energy? Whatever it is, we live with it. We live with a hyper awareness that something is about to happen. It’s the space of anticipation. How well do you dwell in this anticipatory space?

If you live with a sense of dread or pessimism, you have chosen to use this form of omniscience within you to create self-fulfilling prophecies. You have to stay ahead of the dread. If you are prophesying fear it will make you feel dreadful. If you are prophesying hope and anticipatory delight, it will make you feel terrific. How do you want to feel now?

I want to feel like I’m the leading edge. If I’m going to have this anticipatory feeling in me, I want to focus my attention on what I want to see happen in my life. When I drift into the prophetic doomsday, I do myself no good. I want to sharpen my sense of anticipation by narrowing in my goals.

Imminence lives with us. Your heightened state of awareness can be used to cut through, to create, and to bring positive experiences to your life. Imminence means “overhanging.” There is something in you that is overhanging. Why make it dreadful? What’s the point? You’re the point! You’re the leading edge of creation, so cut through and make something imaginative that brings positive scenarios. Staying ahead of the dread is the only way I know to feel better right now.