It Is Time To Bury The Past!

Here are some instructive words from the fabulous Tom Ferry about happiness and letting go. Do read the entire article Are you addicted to the past?

Simple and effective ways to let go, be authentic and ergo, be happy now not tomorrow or next year. Bury the past NOW - let it go!

Cleaning up the past is the simple action of facing it. Tom Ferry

If your happiness isn't the reason to let go of your past, think about your family, your spouse, partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, children and friends. How have the events from your past impacted them? 

How you behave and act is what your kids will grow up emulating. By continuing to hold onto the past, not only are you destroying your own life, you are crushing the lives of all of those around you. 

If you choose to go down a path that is stuck in how your life used to be, the people around you will go down that path too. Here's an exercise to help you zero in on how the past is impacting your life.

• Write down a list of every person you feel you've wronged.

• Write down a list of every person you own an apology to.

• Make a list of everyone you feel has wronged you.

• Write down a list of every person you feel you deserve an apology from.

If you want to be free from you past, let all of the people you named in the above exercise know how you feel. More times than not, you may be surprised that they have no idea what you're talking about. 

What made an indelible impression on you, turned out to be meaningless or of little concern to that other person. They simply had no clue you've been holding on to all of that negative emotion which ultimately weighed you down with self-created images of something that may or may not have happened.

The people who are really suffering and held up by their addiction to the past are those who cannot or choose not to see things for what they are. They only see their breakdowns, mediocrity and failures and relate them to those in the past. 

The benefit of freeing yourself from the past is that you will finally see things as they really are and not the perception of how you thought it was. 

Remember the past is over. You are reliving it in your mind and recreating it in your life, right now. Get over it! It is time to bury the past people.

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