Up Until Now
Do you ever find yourself reliving the experiences, beliefs, and behaviors of your past? Maybe you start feeling bad about yourself, beat yourself up, and then wonder what enticed you to go down that slippery slope in the first place because you know yourself to be more “evolved” than that. The great news is that every time you recognize your error in thought and remember how evolved you are, you strengthen your faith and conviction in the Divine.
We are spiritual beings having a human experience, souls with bodies. We have landed in these earth suits on this planet for a limited time. As such, let us utilize this precious time to unlearn the lies we’ve been told about ourselves and uncover the sparkling, radiant truth within us now. You are magnificent. You are whole, perfect, and complete, exactly as you are.
Next time you find yourself stuck in a rut, thinking negatively about a particular area of your life or yourself, try this simple but powerful mantra to untangle yourself from the web of false information you were hypnotized into believing. The three words are “Up until now.”
The response to any of these thoughts or those similar, “It never works out, it didn’t work in the past, I can’t, I won’t, maybe for them but not me, I don’t know, I can’t see how it would work, and so forth,” is: up until now.
I see the spiritual truth in all beings, the radiant light of love and goodness that illuminates souls and breathes bodies into existence. Seeing this Truth in all is a sacred covenant made by all clergy and spiritual practitioners. It is a covenant of oneness.
Whenever I witness another being less than their legendary Divine self, I see and affirm their spiritual truth in the midst of it. I know it for them even as they revert to past thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors, forgetting who they are. They may go into disbelief or talk about proof of why things will never work, all based on the past. We can never go back; we can only go forward. I take the beautiful moment to remind them that principle is not bound by precedent with these three words, “Up until now.”
There is a gentle call of Spirit always nudging you, inspiring you to step out of your comfort zone and into your radiant magnificence. French psychologist, pharmacist, and hypnotist Emile Coué observed, “Every day, in every way, I’m getting better and better.” A powerful truth for all of us to remember.
The application of this mantra-like conscious autosuggestion has proven to be very powerful. Because all our self-talk is hypnosis, it awakens us to the truth that we are powerful beings, creating our experience as we go. Every day, we learn a little more, become a little better and a little more like who we came here to be, who we already are.
Now go, be beautiful, be bright.
And so it is.
