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The metaphor of the past day is a figurative representation of the past day, when various sensations and experiences are collected in one picture. The past day metaphor is one method of setting up for the next day.
Procedure
Closing your eyes, immerse yourself in your feelings and try to draw in your imagination a metaphor of the past day, imagine it with some kind of picture.
Was the day like walking in a noisy supermarket? On a hunt, where you hunted — and at the same time hunted you? On a hard path through a squelching green swamp, in which you have to pull your foot out of the quagmire at every step? Maybe your day was like an abandoned park where you wandered alone through the alleys? Of course not: your day must have been a bright attraction, where the whistle of a risky flight alternated with a light jog across rough terrain to the ringing of cheerful bells!
It is not important that the picture necessarily acquire specific features, it is important whether you like this picture, whether there is a feeling of coziness and comfort from it. If the picture is dominated by light and warm tones, the day was successful for you. Bright, colorful, energetic tones characterize the past day as cheerful and energetic, cold, faded and gray colors speak of your obvious or hidden dissatisfaction.
Or, at least, anxiety and fatigue.
Why do this?
The metaphor of the past day is a sensitive thermometer, an attentive sensor that always, without straining your Thinking, will tell you if everything is okay in your life and your internal economy.
But a metaphor not only reflects the events of the past day — a metaphor can also shape your day tomorrow. Your task is to wake up tomorrow with joy, to enter a new day with desire. To do this, in the evening in bed, before falling asleep, be sure to create a joyful picture tomorrow. Create a sense of joy.
Practice it now: read this text, then close your eyes and try to see your image tomorrow. If you are distracted by the flickering of colors, flashes and lines — sit quietly, you can cover your eyes with your soft palms, the background will become calmer, ideally exactly black. You should not expect that against this background you will actually see something painted: you need an even background only so as not to distract yourself, and you can imagine the picture of the day. Imagine. See in the interior.
It doesn’t matter what pops up in your imagination: a picture of a forest, a blue sky and a green meadow, or a picture of a stretched sail of a boat cutting through the endless agitated sea, or maybe a picture of a winding road to the dacha and roofs of houses through swaying foliage — you can see something completely its own, the main thing is that this picture relates to the feeling of your tomorrow and that now this tomorrow pleases and draws you.