Free Yourself From The Past

How would your life be right now if you could live each moment without any baggage from the past? "Baggage" as it is referred to is previous memories and experiences that to this day influences our current perception of our reality. Since baggage is in our past, it is safe to say that our pasts help shape and define us. It becomes the filters through which we perceive reality. Our minds collect data and information about ourselves and the world around us. As we accumulate one life experience after another, this accumulation helps form patterns, beliefs, and emotions. These patterns beliefs and emotions become the vehicle through which we perceive the world. As such, our sense of reality can often become quite distorted.

Whether you’re conscious of it or not, odds are that you’re carrying with you quite a bit of ‘baggage’ from your past. If you formed the belief at age 14 that you were not good at math, you most likely still believe that about yourself today. If your first boyfriend or girlfriend cheated on you with someone else, you might still be carrying the pain of mistrust around with you right now. All of the people in your past, along with the situations and events that you experienced, might still be affecting you today and keeping you from living a life filled with joy and excitement. To prevent yourself from getting hurt again you choose safety over risk taking, ordinary over extraordinary.

Truly successful people are not just successful because they learned a few new skills or got lucky. They most likely have had to do quite a bit of digging, or personal ‘work’ on themselves to overcome their own limiting beliefs about themselves. They’ve had to face their fears, get outside of their comfort zone, and also challenge the old disempowering patterns and beliefs that were keeping them from creating more success. Personal growth is absolutely essential for anyone looking to create wealth or success for themselves. It is about fine-tuning the power force within that is capable of creating and manifesting in the exte
al world.

I’m quite passionate about personal growth if is not particularly clear. To clear my past, to rewrite my history took a lot of effort. It started with discovering what I valued in life. Not what others values, not what others wanted to do, not what others thought I should be doing, but what I wanted to do. I discovered that I value personal freedom and the ability to travel and experience new cultures and people. I have no desire to be anyones boss, or to have a boss myself. This is me however, and we are all different. Do not allow what I value to influence what you value. Be authentic and discover this for yourself.

The past is history, for many of us the past does equal the future. Acknowledge this fact. Acknowledge the painful experiences that have helped shape your perception and grow from it, instead of allowing it to limit you. We can remember the past and learn from it, but there’s no need to carry it with us any longer. In order to live more full and free in the present moment as an aware, empowered, human beings, we have to let go of the beliefs, emotions, and people from our past that keep us from seeing the truth of who we really are.

It’s a cleansing process and it is necessary! I am not saying that everyone needs to do any specific ceremony, but I do encourage you to dig up the past if you’ve never done it, make amends with it, and let it go once and for all. You will start feeling better an be amazed at the clarity you gain from it.