"Affirmation prayer for Freedom from the past"
No matter what my experience of life has been up to this moment, I am not bound by my past--not the distant past, not even yesterday. I no longer have to analyze or rehearse the past. I take the power away from the past by refusing to give it my attention or my concern. The past cannot hold me--its only life is in my belief about it. It lives only in my thought of it. This moment opens up before me with unlimited possibilities: this moment is overflowing with creative potential for new choices and new outcomes. I move into this moment, and the day before me and tomorrow and the next, free--with a heart that is hopeful and a mind that is clear and ready...