The Power Of Letting Go
Posted on Mar 16, 2009. Category: Personal Growth.
Each and every day, we wake up to a new opportunity to make the most out of our lives. Many people, however, don’t take this opportunity and continue to live in the shadowy realms of the past. Living in the past is a nasty habit that few people can actually say they don’t participate in. It is human nature to evaluate the past repeatedly in order to make sense out of the present and plan for the future.
Learning to let go of the past is something that needs to be practiced regularly by living within the present moment. While we certainly shouldn’t forget the lessons that our past has taught us, we also do not need to relive negative moments from the past in order to survive the day.
If someone chooses to relive past mistakes each day, they will continue to punish themselves repeatedly for something that they have no doubt already suffered for. Why continue to wrong your heart and your soul by dwelling on things that cannot be changed and no longer even exist?
Whether someone has harmed you or you have harmed someone else, you need to learn to forgive them as well as yourself, and then move on. There’s no need to continue replaying the event in your mind. Approach the day with love and a renewed commitment to enjoy the life that you have in the here and now. If you don’t, then you will only have more to regret down the line if you allow yourself to fall into that sort of thinking.
Let go of the past and your judgments of the past. Free yourself to move forward and remove those clouds that are obscuring your inner light. It may not be easy, but work each day at letting go of thoughts of the past as soon as they arise. You will enjoy life more and feel better as you keep practicing this essential step toward happiness and joy.
Actively living in the present will give your life renewed meaning and energy, which is the gift you can give to yourself when you shed the veil of the past.
Holly McCarthy
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Letting go is an exercise in reviewing what is and is not important. You kindly remind readers that it is worthwhile to reflect and discard thoughts and feelings that do not serve you.
Liara Covert on Mar 24, 2009.
This one’s another beautiful process. I’ve written in my own blog site that the past does not define me. And that the future is not a burden. My previous decisions may have led me to exist today but I am always new every moment.
BIO on May 12, 2009.
“If someone chooses to relive past mistakes each day, they will continue to punish themselves repeatedly for something that they have no doubt already suffered for. Why continue to wrong your heart and your soul by dwelling on things that cannot be changed and no longer even exist?”
This is so true.
Yvonne on Jan 6, 2010.