Overcoming The Past

For some people, overcoming the past can be extremely difficult. Negative experiences have a way of imprinting themselves on us and affecting our lives in the present and into the future. In a sense, we become what happened to us, and that’s tragic. It’s tragic because it doesn’t have to be that way. There are things that we can do to overcome the past and break free from its grip.

Think of this – Every time you think about and imagine your past, you re-infect yourself with it. You re-link to the patterns of thought, behaviors and emotions attached to those past experiences. The more you turn things over in your mind, the more intense the experience becomes. And the probability of it happening again increases, because you get into the habit of generating and re-creating the same bad emotions.