Who admits to holding onto past situations and reliving them over and over again as though if we keep thinking about it it will ultimately have a different outcome?! Letting go of situations or events from our past that really now serve us no purpose is never easy, however in my opinion it is essential to clear old emotional blockages and create a healthy mind and healthy forward thinking as a direct result.
We need to believe that just because events in our past may have been traumatic beyond our control or have been negative in one way or another, it does NOT mean that these events will repeat themselves in the future. We need to look at each day as a fresh new challenge full of opportunities and it is up to US to recognise those opportunities and act on them. Today is a brand new day folks don't forget that. Let the past go and look into the future with hope, trust and excitement at what you can make out of life!
You're absolutely right! One way of helping yourself to let go of those old repeating patterns is to look at them as a learning process. What lessons did you learn from those experiences? The lessons could be good or bad - it might even be that you've been learning something good by experiencing the opposite - for example, if you keep repeating bad relationships, perhaps you are learning how a partner should treat you, and that you deserve to be treated with respect. Once you've identified the lessons, tell yourself that you've learnt that lesson now, so it's unnecessary to repeat it anymore. Tell yourself this regularly, so that your subconscious is really convinced the lesson is over. I find this a very helpful way of letting go. You can then move forward, taking the wisdom of what you've learnt, but leaving behind the baggage.
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