Understanding Your Past
abracad, · Categories: externally authored, self helpWhen we go through life, we sometimes choose to not let go of our past, our fears, our choices, and our behaviors.
We don’t live as who we have become, but instead live our life from the past. We manage to portray ourselves in a way that is simply repeating our old behaviors, our way of looking at the world, and thus how we interact with it. We choose not to relate our lives beyond our understanding, but instead within the safe confines of our old selves. Why do we do this? Simply because it a learned behavior and it is easy. We do not let go so that we can become who we think we are based upon our past and our memories. Yet, we are made up of so much more than our past. The past is a factor portrayed throughout our lives as a pretense to live by. Simply put, we are not our past. We are new in every waking moment that we exist in.
To let go of your past is to live freely just as you are.
Yes, things can happen in your past that feel detrimental or formative; however, it is our behavior and our beliefs within that create the idea of what we are. We are not our past; our past was over just as soon as it happened. Yet, most people live in a state of existence that belongs almost completely in their past. Why? Because it is the only truth we know, and thus we identify with it. Although it is no longer real, we feel comfortable and safe living this way. However, are we truly happy and at peace within ourselves?
To be free of old behaviors, fears, habits, or anything that feels old it is important to understand that by truly letting go of the past within yourself, you are letting yourself become who you really are, with nothing in the way.
We all know what it feels like to be weighed down by something that feels old and useless in our lives, no matter what it is. This is you telling yourself that you are done and to let go. If we could each exist in the present, free of our past, we would know so much more happiness and peace from within, for we are being who we truly are and not a presentation of what we were yesterday.
By Zoe Young and Adam Benedetto at Answers in Writing
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