Painful experiences from my past have a way of coming to the surface and wrecking me all over again. How do I stop engaging myself with the past, and how do I leave this pain behind me once and for all? What is it in me that wants to re-live painful moments from my past, and what's it going to take for me to break through to totally present living? Is there a way to live in the present so that...
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There’s only one reason we become a prisoner of any pain or sorrow from our past: we’re momentarily identified with a mistaken sense of self that only knows itself by revisiting and resisting the very memories it called up! This eCourse will help you realize a new order of yourself that is free of the past, free to forgive, and is waiting to release you from any guilt over your own past actions.
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Guy Finley briefly describes in this short talk how our lives can change for the better, including all of our past, if we are willing, right now, to do the necessary kind of interior self-work that changes everything.
Any sorrow, resentment, or anxiety brought over and into the living now can only be an echo of some event now past.
Since real life renews itself every microsecond, then whatever moment our mind keeps pointing to from our past can't possibly be the real reason for our present pain.
There lives nothing real in our past -- regardless of how disappointing or painful it may have been -- that can grab us and make us its captive, any more than a dark shadow has the power to keep us from walking into the sunlight.
I am bogged down in a financial and personal morass, created by extremely poor decisions and excesses in the past. I fear that the whole mess makes it impossible now to absorb and realize the truths that can transform my life. I feel there is just too much damage, and my life will be forever marked by my mistakes. (From student correspondence)...
It is possible for you to learn how to step out of time and change YOUR past. Imagine being able to enjoy everything positive about your life, while simply tossing out all of the negative. What freedom! The power to shed every mistake, every bad memory, every limitation -- and the ability to shape your own destiny without the weight of the past holding you back! What's more, once you learn...
I've been having many issues lately with past pain. If someone hurt me in the past, and a situation happens now that is similar to that, my mind instantly jumps to the conclusion of the past and takes my attention, convincing me the pain is real. I can see it happen at times, that I'm being tricked, and I come back to the present. But the pain is there, stealing my energy, my life. I try to wa...
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Classroom Talk: 8/17/2022 - Unconscious identification with any pain from the past -- especially as it involves, or otherwise lends support to some negative perception of oneself -- is a slow-acting poison that, once ingested, soon darkens the soul and leads to its destruction.
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Classroom Talk: 10/26/2022 - Fear of the future is a negative memory: (it is) the ghost of some past painful experience disguised as "what may be."
Real Life is change itself, a ceaseless flow of creative forces expressed in ever-new forms. So, our inability to make a fresh start isn't because Life refuses us what we need to succeed. The problem is this: before we can hope to make a real new beginning in life, we must deliberately release our old claims upon it; for it is only in letting go of whatever binds us to our past that we are f...