What is amazing about this understanding is that it shows you that the way out of your suffering is always in the present. Your present moment experience in the now is what keeps the past alive. Anger or hurt about the past is happening now. Memories of events are thoughts occurring in the present. Everything that happens happens in the present – it can’t be any other way. When you look with great clarity, you will see that there is no actual thing called the past.
#Just a perfect day you make me forget myself free#
See clearly, get unstuck, and move forward free and unencumbered. Apply these 10 life-changing facts to the sticky residue from your past. What happened to me is, without question, possible for you. And, yes, I am free of the past and so deeply happy in the timeless now. What I wanted more than anything was to be free of the past and happy in the now. Yes, my relationship with my parents has improved beautifully, but that has been a side effect and not the primary driver. I am so much more drawn to ease and simplicity. I stopped justifying the anger, and now, 15 years later, I have trouble even remembering the details of events that used to agitate me to no end. But what I gave power to totally changed. The story of what happened in my past didn’t change. My identity as the wounded child disappeared, and what was revealed? Happiness. No more stories about what should have been, no more blaming or waiting for solutions.
I saw that my anger was preventing me from experiencing the ease and well being that I desperately wanted, so I stopped feeding it. In a moment of insight, I took responsibility for my own happiness. There were periods with no communication and many arguments as we tried and failed repeatedly to find a way of meeting. My mind screamed about the “should have’s” and “ought to be’s.” I kept an endless list about what I deserved, but thought I had missed out on. For many years, I had a very rocky relationship with my parents, filled with anger and resentment about the past. How do I know? From first-hand experience. Be free of the past, and you can go on and simply enjoy your life. Because you will discover 10 facts that may just be the key to unlock the door to your full, unbridled, joyful, infinitely sane expression of you. If you know your past is still nipping at your heels, read on. And you are limited by distrust, neediness, and a stunted view of what is possible for you. You are way more emotionally reactive than you know is good for you. Memories keep recirculating when all you want is for them to disappear.
But only if you want to be free, only if you want to know the open-heartedness and enthusiasm for life that come with making peace with the past.Īs you probably know, sometimes events from the past have a mind of their own. Still plagued by your past? Then this post is for you. “Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.” ~Jean Paul Sartre