Stuck. Really stuck.
Our past is a place that can, at times, ruin our ability to enjoy the present moment. It can rip you back into events, emotions, thoughts, and situations that can be incredibly painful at times. It can define your entire life if you let it.
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.
But there's something else about coming back to this moment that is even more important. The past can also be a place where we want to go back to because things seemed so much better back then. But that moment is gone. It's forever gone. The people who were in your life, the memories, the things you did are all behind you. You can really never go back. All you can do is create a new life for yourself now.
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.
So be brave and come back to this moment. Come back to being right here and right now. Give yourself the chance to really live for once.
This moment is all you have.
Our past is a place that can, at times, ruin our ability to enjoy the present moment. It can rip you back into events, emotions, thoughts, and situations that can be incredibly painful at times. It can define your entire life if you let it.
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.
But there's something else about coming back to this moment that is even more important. The past can also be a place where we want to go back to because things seemed so much better back then. But that moment is gone. It's forever gone. The people who were in your life, the memories, the things you did are all behind you. You can really never go back. All you can do is create a new life for yourself now.
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.
So be brave and come back to this moment. Come back to being right here and right now. Give yourself the chance to really live for once.
This moment is all you have.
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