Our lives are a continuous journey on the timeline. Even if all the clocks in your house stop, if you fall into a coma for 5 years, or if you lose your memory, time keeps moving forward, and we move along with it.

Give yourself a moment of "clarity with oneself," imagine your timeline: what does it look like? What are its characteristics?

Where is the past? Where is the future? And where is your present moment (now)?

Identify the point in time where the significant event causing stress will occur, which occupies a portion of your thoughts and drains part or all of your energy, like a court date, a confrontation with an opponent, or a fight for your rights, etc.

Identify this point and pull it to place it on the timeline pointing to the past.

Try putting it 5 months back and observe your feelings.

Try putting it a year back and observe your feelings.

Try putting it 5 years back, observe your feelings, and be amazed at how the event loses its danger, importance, and toxicity!

Did you know that with this exercise, you harness the #power_of_the_mind to control events on the timeline?

More precisely, having control over events in this manner allows you to experience new emotions towards them and, consequently, to handle them in a different way that might lead you to better outcomes than if you dealt with toxic events in your usual manner.

Dealing with frightening or bad future events by turning them into past memories opens the door for you to a new world of #mental_comfort because "the past has gone," as I always say. Ten years after the event, it will no longer be significant, its consequences will have diminished or disappeared, and nothing will remain of its protagonists but vague specters whose features are difficult to remember. (Unless you play the role of the victim expertly, keeping yourself a prisoner of the past, clinging to the embers of hatred, resentment, and discontent—may God help you then!)

Give it a try and share your experience with love.