It is pointless to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
(c) Albert Einstein
How many times have you heard that before starting something new, you need to free yourself from the old?
And you are surely looking for ways, how to let go of the past?!
Which, in principle, sounds logical.
What housewife, when moving to a new apartment, would drag along broken furniture or chipped dishes…
We are not calling for you to renounce your past or forget about it.
This is our life, our experience; without it, we would not have become who we are now.
However, I think you will agree that the past belongs in the past.
But it would also be good to understand WHY this is so!
Let’s figure it out…
How to Let Go of the Past and Start a New Life
1. Raising the Energy Level in Your Life
We live in the present, and all our energy is also in the present, in the “here and now.” It is better to fill each lived moment with strength and awareness than to fruitlessly suffer over what has passed.
Redirecting your attention from the past to the present will allow you to increase the amount of energy in your body, your actions, and the strength and depth of your feelings.
9 practices from Eckhart Tolle will help you learn to be in the present. With their help, you will change your life for the better.
2. The Right Direction of Movement Toward Your Goal
Looking only at the past is like walking down a road backwards: you can’t see anything except your own old footprints.
A goal may sometimes not be realized simply because, in reality, you are moving toward it out of an old habit, while you yourself have long outgrown it and lost interest in it.
What lies ahead is far more interesting! It’s high time to stop living in the past. Walk along the road of your life, staying in the present and looking toward the future, and you will see many interesting “forks” and exciting perspectives!
See also Everything you need to manifest your goal
3. Breaking Free from Old Relationship Patterns
Many people, due to traumatic events in their past, become fixated on what was. They adopt old relationship templates and reproduce them over and over: “I always meet men who are alcoholics,” “I’m unlucky in love,” “I get betrayed,” “I always get mean bosses.”
Yes, perhaps such things have happened in your life more than once, but that does not mean you are doomed to a similar turn of events for the rest of your life.
This is a case where the burden of the past is a poor advisor. You can use it only as experience for self-analysis: “What am I doing to end up in these situations, and how can I change that?” but by no means take it as the basis for your life script.
4. A New Opinion of Yourself, Your Capabilities, and Your Fulfillment
Limiting beliefs from the past, shaped by our environment and ourselves, “clip our wings.” And only we ourselves can spread them again!
“Because the very first point is your interpretation of reality. So much depends on how you look at things, how you see yourself, your place in life, what you should be doing, where you should be heading.
This is the positive side, because so much depends on you – on who you believe yourself to be, how you see yourself, what place in life you have defined for yourself.
On the downside, there is a huge group of people who hold outdated information, an outdated image of you. And by orienting ourselves to their opinion, we put ourselves down, again and again. Like, ‘you didn’t handle this here’ – that’s criticism from outside, and often from ourselves. And this belittling begins, that ‘I’m nobody and my name is nothing.’
In other words, it’s important to believe that I am strong, that I can, that I really do have abilities, to accept that I am not like them.”
Open broadcast “Exit from the Matrix. Your Own Game”
5. Acceptance, forgiveness of yourself and others
We cannot accept ourselves or other people because our perceptions are interfered with by “emotional baggage” from the past.
For example, someone doesn’t forgive their parents for childhood grievances. Or they can’t free themselves from feelings of guilt for an action that happened years ago.
Because of this, we react to new events in the old way – like “offended children,” or “debtors guilty before everyone.”
Maybe it’s time to break this vicious circle and stop living in the past?
“When there’s some serious conflict – divorce, division of property, some kind of battle going on – we direct all our attention there. During that time, such powerful energetic cords get stretched between us. We later part ways with the person, we might not even speak to them, but the cords remain. A part of that energy stays with them.
And now they return to our lives so that we can reclaim this energy. For the most part, they show us – this is a snapshot from the past. You interacted with that person being a completely different you. But now you perceive everything differently, you relate to it differently.
You can once again, with new eyes, with your new consciousness, look at the old situation, understand that you now relate to it differently, that maybe it’s not even worth conflicting with that person anymore.”
Open broadcast “Rapid Ascent”
6. The ability to honorably endure pain and move forward
Pain and loss of something important are inevitable in the human journey. We part with youthful illusions, say goodbye to significant people, change jobs, experience disappointment in our best feelings, sometimes lose our health, and endure the death of loved ones.
These are normal stages of life, and no one is immune to them.
Another question is how we deal with it… You can nurse your pain for years, endlessly pitying yourself and picking at the wound. Or you can accept what happened as a fact, live through and release those emotions. And use the crisis as a point of personal and spiritual growth.
See also How to support yourself in moments of low spirits
But, of course, in any case, you first need to heal your pain. There is a wonderful meditation for this, “Sending support to your past self.” You will send the energy of love to yourself in the past, you will be able to heal any trauma, and cope with a difficult situation.
7. Effective living and fulfillment in the conditions of the New Energy
“Many old methods that worked time and again, both in business and in life — don’t work now, or work with some adjustments.
This trend continues and will continue until a new course, a new direction, a new feeling is developed. Until you clearly decide, until you make small adjustments even in those areas that worked 100% for you before.
This is not self-doubt, this is not doubt about the rightness of the path.
You are simply checking the tricks and tools to see if they work now, and making certain changes.”
Accompanying webinar by Alena Starovoytova from October 21, 2012
So, in order to fulfill yourself happily and successfully in the current energies, you need to stop living in the past. Say goodbye to old ways of acting, and start a creative search for new ones!
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Find out what will help broaden your perspective.
We’ve figured out why it’s worth leaving the past behind.
Surely, after reading this material, you have a new question: HOW to do it ))
Which is quite justified: new information and answers give rise to new questions.
I recommend you go through the meditation-ritual of liberation from the past, from everything that hinders your progress forward.
Meditation on letting go of the past
I wish you to fully use the experience of your past, and live happily in the present!
Alena Starovoytova & Ulyana Radnaya