People have always been fascinated by the topic of traveling to the past and the future. But what if a shift along the timeline doesn’t happen through physical movement, but rather through a deep inner transformation?
To change your relationship with the past, it’s enough to work with your reactions to the events you’ve experienced in the present.
In this article, we’ll explore how the lines of the past work, and how a shift to an alternative future line happens from a metaphysical perspective.
Read on to learn how the transformation process unfolds, how healing takes effect, and why, as a result, you don’t remember events from the past.
How traumatic events form the shadow
A child is born whole and complete. In the course “Dance with the Shadow 4.0,” we called this version of ourselves the Authentic Self.
As the child grows and relates to the outside world, some traumatic event occurs, as a result of which something in their consciousness is suppressed, rejected, goes beyond the boundaries of consciousness, and turns into shadow.
What was previously whole becomes limited. Each such traumatic event limits you, cuts off a part of you, and as a result, more and more shadows multiply.
If you want to dive deeper into how your shadow aspects are formed, learn to recognize the rejected parts of yourself, and restore lost wholeness, check out the course “Dance with the Shadow 4.0.”
The course is dedicated to shadow work, self-acceptance, and reclaiming those parts of your personality that once had to be suppressed or rejected.
Shifting along the timeline and the alternative future line
We were born and lived in a 3D world where linear time rules, where sequence is strictly observed: past, present, future. There’s no way to turn off from here.
And then a moment of transformation arrives—for example, due to some tragic events in life, or as a result of working through courses, visiting psychologists—after which you come to a total rethinking of your life path.
At that moment, an alternative future line appears for you. You have changed, transformed, in some cases you could say healed, and at that moment you are effectively moving from one timeline to another.
You had a line you were walking along: past #1, future #1, but as a result of transformation in the present, you begin moving along the line “future #2.”
That traumatic event in the past that you transformed and healed, on timeline #2, if it’s present at all, is only as a hazy, half-erased memory, because essentially it’s no longer about you—you don’t have that part anymore.
The future timeline you are moving toward has a completely different past, numbered two, which does not match the original version that existed before the moment of transformation.
There was a scheme of two elements, and we added a third component.
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Why the Perception of the Past Changes After Transformation
How Transformation Changes the Past
Transformation can only be undergone in the present, as a result of which you become more whole, and most importantly, less limited, and a future numbered three takes shape for you.
But while we are in the 3D world, linear time still affects us, yet your more whole version with the future numbered three already has a completely different past.
That traumatic event that happened in the past numbered one no longer affects you in any way—most likely you forget about it. And if you do remember it, you have no emotional charge inside.
Think back to some moments in life when you went through a divorce, the death of loved ones, or didn’t get into college. It is experienced intensely, emotionally, but once you have worked through it, only a memory remains. I call this “working it through cleanly.”
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Why We Forget Events from the Past. The Keepers of Memories
The past belongs in the past, it stays in the past, you have memories, but no emotions or experiences. Then loved ones, especially parents, often act as the keepers of these memories.
And for you to recall what happened in your life is difficult. And this, by the way, is the answer to the question of why many people don’t remember their childhood. Not because it was terrible. Mine, for example, was wonderful, but that doesn’t change the fact that I practically don’t remember it.
The more sharp turns called transformation there have been in your life, the more erased the events of your past become, especially some traumatic moments that you have healed or worked through.
And since you and I live in rather turbulent times, there have been very many sharp turns, and we increasingly slip off that original life line, the line of the past, on which we were initially.
That is why there are no memories, and memory strains rather heavily, until we give it at least something to push off from: childhood photographs, favorite childhood books, toys found at the dacha or in the attic.
When you don’t remember, but your parents or friends and acquaintances do, it speaks to the fact that your life has changed dramatically more than once, that you’ve been through many moments of awareness and serious transformations.
This doesn’t work for everyone, because most people go around in a closed loop, where the same question torments them their whole life and nothing changes. Strangely enough, such people still exist.
How to support yourself in the past
Use any moment when you are full, harmonious, in a state of “I can do anything,” to give yourself help in difficult situations in the past: during a hard divorce, at the death of a loved one, at a failure, when you weren’t hired, when you lost your job, were left in debt, up to your neck in it, and so on.
This is a most powerful tool for helping yourself and healing yourself, because you are totally anchored in the present.
Not when you run away with your thoughts into the past or drift off into daydreams about the future, but when you fully experience the present in your body: when you eat, when you do gymnastics or body exercises — in that moment you are in your body.
When you are fully, totally anchored in the present, you can, from your harmonious, balanced part, return to any moment of the past and give yourself that care, attention, and support that you lacked then, and that you were trying to get from outside.
This is one of the effective, powerful tools of self-help for yourself in the past, and it doesn’t matter which timeline of the past it is: the first, the tenth, the twenty-fifth.
Recall a moment when everything in your life was going to hell, tears, deep anguish, and then suddenly a wave of relief washed over you. I’ve had such moments.
That was you from the future trying with all your might to support yourself.
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If you could return to one difficult moment of your past, what situation would it be, and what support would you want to give yourself then?