Pythonpappy
12-25-2011, 10:14 AM
Spending time with family over the holidays can make you realize how powerful the messages and memories of your childhood are. Indeed, you may discover that how you define yourself today has a lot to do with your past – and not always in the best of ways.
Rather than stay entrenched in the negative influences from your childhood, you can let go of your attachment to the past by changing your outlook today. Even if you choose to obsess about your past, punish yourself for it, or feel extreme guilt or remorse over it, there is nothing you can do about it now. It is over. Tell yourself this repeatedly.
Rather than hold onto regrets about the past – what you did or did not do, what was right or wrong, or what could have been or might have been better – forgive yourself and focus on what you can do now. Most people cling to people, places, or things not because such things are good for them, but because they are most familiar. You can become comfortable with new people, places, and things when you give them a chance.
Today I will release the hold the past has upon my present.
(TodaysGift)
Rather than stay entrenched in the negative influences from your childhood, you can let go of your attachment to the past by changing your outlook today. Even if you choose to obsess about your past, punish yourself for it, or feel extreme guilt or remorse over it, there is nothing you can do about it now. It is over. Tell yourself this repeatedly.
Rather than hold onto regrets about the past – what you did or did not do, what was right or wrong, or what could have been or might have been better – forgive yourself and focus on what you can do now. Most people cling to people, places, or things not because such things are good for them, but because they are most familiar. You can become comfortable with new people, places, and things when you give them a chance.
Today I will release the hold the past has upon my present.
(TodaysGift)