In this answer to a viewer's question, Guy explains how healing from something bad that happened to us in the past begins with observing and letting go of the part of us that finds a peculiar thrill in reliving the event.

Yours is the power to put the fear of the future behind you, but only as you are willing to see that unless you do the interior work to awaken now...your past awaits you just ahead.

Allowing anything to eat at you -- by consenting to sit at the 'table of torment' -- serves nothing... save the dark and hungry ghost of some past pain that lives only to consume negative energy.

Topic: Use This Secret Strength to Release You from the Pain of the Past (10/15/17 Classroom Talk) - Moderated by Guy Finley, includes short introductory talk by Guy followed by Q&A with students.

Topic: Use This Secret Strength to Release You from the Pain of the Past (10/15/17 Classroom Talk) - Moderated by Guy Finley, includes short introductory talk by Guy followed by Q&A with students.

Don't wish for freedom; choose it. Start by challenging the false notion that negativities are true powers. Deliberately walk past any dark state whose painful presence -- left uncontested -- makes you a prisoner of its domain.

No other can do what God asks of you alone. This knowledge is the seed of a confidence that has no past; it leads to a self-reliance without painful self-reference. The flowering of this understanding is freedom.

Student Talks: 3/17/2023 - Key Lesson: Before we can hope to stop reliving any unwanted moment from our past, we must see that our experience of it is inseparable from how we ourselves have named it.

Learning what it means to step back from our reactions to life is the same as learning to walk past those parts of us that want us to believe our only choices in that moment are those presented to us from the content of these reactions.

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 dark shadows have the power to keep us from walking into the sunlight.

Awakening the power to see past the pain in our present condition is the pre-requisite to transcending it; such inner-sight is to these dark states within us as is the dawn to the night sky that cannot remain in its presence.

Exercise: When you feel a contraction -- of worry, fear, emptiness, desire, excitement, etc. -- ask yourself am I connected to what's alive or what's dead. Then bring yourself back into the living now and die to the past instead of being drawn into revisiting your life.