and Then Let Them Go
by Brandon Cook
selfgrowth.com
“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
–Tony Robbins
“Study the past, if you would divine the future.”
–Confucius
I encourage you to take a look at your own life. What has the past taught you? What mistakes were turning points in your life? Finally, what lessons do you think YOU still have to learn?
Our pasts (if we let them) can follow us forever and have either a positive or negative effect on our present moment reality. The truth is the past is only a memory that has been stored within our subconscious mind.
Even though the past is over and done with, the experiences we have gone through have deeply affected every aspect of our lives for better or worse. Our past experiences have shaped our personalities, our relationships, and even how we handle our lives in the present.
The most important thing for us to realize is this: the past has no control over our lives, except the control we allow it to have.
Once we become aware of this fact and take full responsibility for our own lives we become the true creators of our own future. The past may have made you who you are today, but it’s up to you whether you stay that way or not.
If you want to transform your body or your life just know that you have the full capacity to do so. The past is just a trail you leave behind, it’s like the wake of a boat, or your foot prints in the sand. It’s not who you are, it’s only who you were and where you have been.
Nothing more and nothing less.
In any given moment we can choose to learn from our past and decide to let it go. If we don’t let the past go then it can become a huge burden to our present lives. If we allow this to happen, then we let our past determine our future as well.
The past is but a memory and the future is but a dream… the present moment is our only true point of power.
It’s vitally important to remember the illusory nature of time. The past and future can seem so very real, but our lives are really just a series of present moments, one after the next. Thus, the key to transforming your body is to harness the power of each moment as it is happening.
As the spiritual teachers remind us: Be Here Now.
It may seem like common sense or even overly simplistic advice, but it is a very powerful truth that many of us do not practice at all.
In fact, many of us are trying to escape the present moment. We want to get to the future where our lives will be all that we’ve imagined and all of our dreams will have come true.
Yet this future never comes, because when the future does come it does so as the present moment. In order to create the future we desire we must harness the power of now, the only true moment there is. To squander this moment is to throw away our future.
Hope this makes sense to you.
Learn from your past experiences and then let them go. Fully embrace the present moment, for it is what you do today that determines your tomorrow.
SaturnsLady
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