Love my Past…

Loving our past is a question we often avoid, in order for us to enjoy our present. However, this is futile as we often end up reliving our past in our present in other ways.

Our past is avoided if we have been a victim or controlled in the past, we often attempt to either prevent becoming a victim again by becoming a bully, or we ourselves end up being the controlling one turning someone else into the victim. Think about it… Has this happened to you or have you done this?

Our past is the teacher of many of our life’s lessons. We could learn from our mistakes or repeat them again and again, blaming everything or anyone we can in order to avoid dealing with the mistake.

Loving our past, involves taking responsibility for our ‘present’ whether we were a victim or not. For example, if we were abused, cheated on, or hurt in some way, we can go through life being Angry at whoever or whatever hurt us in that ‘past’.

But, what if we could go back to our past and do something different, what if we could embrace that past as part of our ‘present’ and eventually part of our ‘future’.

There is a tendency for us to avoid the things we don’t like and focus on the things we do, when we find ourselves struggling to avoid thinking or doing the things we want to forget.

Our past becomes a habit when we find things to avoid the pain, things that become habits. Habits that are used to avoid the pain. These habits become symbols of our pain. Sometimes we cannot find things to avoid our pain so we hold that pain in our bodies, this pain then becomes a physical illness or mental disorder like Anxiety disorder, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, Bipolar disorder, Borderline personality disorder, Depression, Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) or we become addicted to Sex.

Lovebeingmypast workshops gives us a chance to look at our past and separate what happened into different parts, parts that we no longer have to own or accept as being who we are… this way we can accept the past as the past without the need to try to remove or forget it, our past is the past!