Are you hung up on your negative past experiences?

Do you still consider things that happened a week, a month, a year ago, problems today?

If so, how is that affecting your life and your emotional state presently?

Take some time now to do a little self-reflection. Look within to see if perhaps there are still some past situations or events that you believe are still weighing you down today. Maybe you even might be feeling that if those things didn’t happen you would be much better off.

Can you resonate with that?

This quote by Sydney Banks shares a valuable insight on how many of us allow our past to affect our present moment by constantly replaying it in our heads. By doing so, we keep bringing what has already come and gone back in to our current reality.

Everything that has happened to you up until now, whether considered positive or negative, is over.  All that remains are memories and the meanings you’ve assigned to each, good, bad, happy, sad, whatever it may be.

If there is anything from your past that you still consider a problem today, what is it? Get curious and be honest with yourself. What is it specifically that you are perhaps still focusing on?

May be it is a relationship that ended badly, an argument, a failure, etc. Get clear on whatever it may be for you.

Now consider this, if you were to wake up tomorrow and that experience, along with the memories and feelings associated with that experience, were gone, how would you feel? Would you still feel as if you had a problem?

I’m guessing your answer would be no because you would no longer be able to keep reliving it in your mind. Would you agree?

Our past cannot hold us back unless we allow it to. Unless we choose to constantly remind ourselves of what happened and how we felt about it.

We never really have a problem until we perceive that thing as a problem. If that perceived problem is your past, the solution is to stop thinking about it!

You get to choose what you focus on and how you want to be right now in this moment and moving forward.

Be thankful for your past. Use it as a platform for reference, self-development, and personal growth, not as a barrier stopping you from living your life.

Now it’s your turn.

How does this quote inspire you?

Tell me about a past negative experience that, although may have been over for years, you are still viewing it as if it is still active in your life now. If that is the case, what is constantly thinking about it now doing for you? How is it making you feel?

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