May 28, 2008

How Your Past Creates Your Future

Are you one of those people who spend your present dwelling on the past? The past is becoming too important to you. You’re avoiding the present, emphasizing past failures, indulge in guilt. None of this living with past hurts or what you perceive to be an insult is helpful. Evening the score isn’t helpful either, because it is permitting the past to dictate the future.The present, the now, the in-the-moment, gets lost. The present is mostly used as a reminder of past injuries or failures. You then take your precious present and frost it with a coating of your reaction to your past stuff. If you’re thinking about things “past” in your mind, that past can then dictate your reactions here in the present.When your thinking is about the past, that is your point of reference, and whoever you’re dealing with has a big problem because you’re not seeing or hearing him accurately. Instead, you’re hearing echoes from the past. Those echoes carry pain in your mind and justify your attacks in the present in return for a past no one else sees and for whom it doesn’t exist. Do […]

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