Stuck. Really stuck.
Our past can seem like an inescapable cage that weighs down on us every single day. Constantly we are reminded of prior pain, mistakes we have made, people we have lost, and the list of transgressions goes on and on.
The biggest danger of an upsetting past is when you allow it to define who you are in this moment and who you will become in the future. When this happens, you have birthed a creature that can truly define the rest of your life.
So what can you really do to free yourself from the constraints of the past?
You have to clean it up. You have to be willing to go back and settle the fights you've had, to make the apologies you need to make, to come to terms with what you have personally done and how things didn't work out so well. While this isn't easy, it's the most important part of the journey in returning back to the present moment. Because honestly, if you don't settle your past, it will continue to pop up time and time again and haunt you and your mind for as long as you permit it.
While repairing the past is great, it gives you access to something even greater - being truly present today. The only chance you have at living a full life is by living in the moment today. You can't go back to the past. Equally, you can't go into the future. You must be living right here and right now, no matter what.
While it's hard to not live in the past and equally hard to not live in the future, you must. You must because you can't go to either places and living there mentally will only take you out of creating grand possibilities today.
Take a chance. Take a risk. Be courageous and go back into the past in order to create a better future for yourself tomorrow.
After all, this moment is all you really have.
Our past can seem like an inescapable cage that weighs down on us every single day. Constantly we are reminded of prior pain, mistakes we have made, people we have lost, and the list of transgressions goes on and on.
The biggest danger of an upsetting past is when you allow it to define who you are in this moment and who you will become in the future. When this happens, you have birthed a creature that can truly define the rest of your life.
So what can you really do to free yourself from the constraints of the past?
You have to clean it up. You have to be willing to go back and settle the fights you've had, to make the apologies you need to make, to come to terms with what you have personally done and how things didn't work out so well. While this isn't easy, it's the most important part of the journey in returning back to the present moment. Because honestly, if you don't settle your past, it will continue to pop up time and time again and haunt you and your mind for as long as you permit it.
While repairing the past is great, it gives you access to something even greater - being truly present today. The only chance you have at living a full life is by living in the moment today. You can't go back to the past. Equally, you can't go into the future. You must be living right here and right now, no matter what.
While it's hard to not live in the past and equally hard to not live in the future, you must. You must because you can't go to either places and living there mentally will only take you out of creating grand possibilities today.
Take a chance. Take a risk. Be courageous and go back into the past in order to create a better future for yourself tomorrow.
After all, this moment is all you really have.
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