The Power and Necessity of Self-Forgiveness

Today was one of those days where it took some time to get into
my success mindset.

I stayed up about two hours too late last night, then some bugs
bit me while I was getting to sleep which kept me up for another
hour.

So when I woke up I was just not ready to begin my day.

So I did my success conditioning routine:

I re-imagined my past successes and re captured that winning
feeling
I visualized my positive outcomes and allowed myself to feel good
about them
I then visualized myself writing and enjoying it and following my
plan for the day

Unfortunately, I allowed myself to be distracted by some other
things then I took a bath.

While in the bath I felt down. I just didn't want to get out of
there and begin my day.

Why?

Because I had wasted so much time already.

I had hit an emotional barrier that I'd faced before and luckily
I had already devised a solution.

Forgiveness.

My great teacher Dr. Maltz talked about the importance of
forgiving yourself for mistakes so you won't be held back by the
past.

So that's what I needed to do here.

Dr. Maltz didn't give any techniques for forgiving yourself in
his book Psycho-Cybernetics but so I had to devise my own
forgiveness meditation.

It's really simple actually.

All I do is say to myself "I forgive myself for..."

And fill in the blank with whatever it is I feel bad about.

So this morning I said "I forgive myself for wasting so much time
this morning" over and over again until I felt good about it.

Then I started to feel bad about all the times in the past I had
wasted time in the morning.

So I said, "I forgive myself for wasting so many mornings in the
past."

Other things I'd done "wrong" came up and I forgave myself for
each of those until I felt loving towards myself.

I felt a lot better but still didn't feel like jumping out of the
tub to begin my day.

I noticed that I felt that I should have gotten more rest last
night.

I wished I could sleep a bit more.

So I visualized myself getting out of bed after a full nights
sleep.

I repeated this visualization four times until I really felt
good.

Then I jumped out of the tub, brushed my teeth, put on my clothes
and began my day.