Looking back, moving Forward

AnnetteW · Post by **AnnetteW** » Fri May 23, 2008 7:30 am

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If you could live your life backwards, just imagine all the mistakes, difficult situations and negative energy you could avoid. Knowing what you now know would give you an enormous advantage in living through those past experiences...

Though you cannot live your life backwards, and you really wouldn't even want to, there is something even more powerful that you can do. You can choose to let go of all the negative energy created by past mistakes and disappointments...

Knowing what you now know, you see that there's no reason in the world to keep hanging on to those disappointments. You see that every mistake, every disappointment, every unkind word, every embarrassment is in the past. Furthermore, you see that they've led you to where you now are. You see that, however painful they were at the time, those difficulties have helped you to grow in wisdom, strength and spirit...

And now is the ideal time to simply let go of all that negative energy you've been carrying. It doesn't have to burden you or drain you any longer. Let yourself be free, let go of the negativity from your past, and unleash an enormous amount of positive energy to move you forward...

-- Ralph Marston
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Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 23, 2008 10:14 am

Annette ;
That was very good to read. I enjoyed it a lot. It was meaningful, helpful.
Thank you very much.
MaryJane

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 23, 2008 11:21 am

I agree with Cornflower... Thank you

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 23, 2008 1:26 pm

I'm so stuck in my regrets I can't stand myself. I can't seem to let them go. I've made so many mistakes and caused so much grief for others. I truly feel the world would be much better off without me. It's so hard to hang on. Self forgiveness is most definitely the hardest thing for me.

Thank you for your entry

Peace and goodwill,

Bo

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sat May 24, 2008 7:26 am

You are very welcome Cornflower and Shelly. I have found that some if not most of the things I was dealing with was guilt. Not guilt that others felt for me but the guilt I had that I felt others had a right to hold against me.

Bo I know that remorse has it's time and place, there is also a time to let go. As I was saying I know the guilt I carried was not what others was thinking about me, but what I put towards myself. As the program was telling us, the ones that we feel has ill feelings towards was more programed by us ourselves and they are giving it the time of day. So we are carring it alone.

In not knowing you or what you are carring, I hope you don't feel I am talking about something I know nothing about, but please don't be so hard on your self. And I know we have a purpose in life and this may be your gentle whisper to seach your destiney.

When I faced one of my guilts, it was towards my mother-in-law and her death. I wrote her a farewell letter of good-bye and the appology and set it to sail at our lake, when it floated away, I let my guilt float away. The other guilt I had I felt that someone was let down by all I could give them, I finally talked to them and told them that I gave all I could and if it wasn't enough I was sorry, but that I would not function in the fix it mode any longer. And I did stop living to satisfy their needs, because I found that when people think they can guide you with guilt you never fullfill what they are searching for, it is never enough.

So maybe if you can't talk to the ones you feel you have wronged. Write a letter and do any other thing but send it to them if you feel that them recieving it would not be enough.

Hang in there guy.

Craw · Post by **Craw** » Sat May 24, 2008 8:05 am

Choose To Be Free

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If you think of yourself as a victim, stop that thought right now. Nothing positive will come of it. No matter what has brought you to where you are, it is up to you to move yourself forward. Have forces beyond your control injured you or held you back? Of course they have.

Do you really want to depend on those same forces to move you forward?

Though others may be to blame for your situation, you are nonetheless responsible for it. Though you may have many excellent reasons to feel sorry for yourself, such pity will not add anything of value to your life...

If see yourself as a victim, it is because you have chosen to do so. Does that sound harsh and uncaring? Then keep this in mind. There are many who have suffered even more than you, who have chosen not to be a victim, who have chosen instead to live life on their own terms...

You can choose to be responsible and by so doing you can choose to be free...

-- Ralph Marston
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