Let your past be passed

How do you remove the past from your future? The first thing you need to do about your past is to realize that what has passed, has passed. Of course, you wish you could go back and change the past, but it simply is not possible. You can’t rewrite the facts of what you went through.

What is possible, however,  is to change the way you think about what happened in your past. The thing that is bad about an unfortunate incident in your past is the way you think about it. When you change how you think about your past, you’ll change your future.

When you change the way you think about a bad experience, it will no longer conjure up memories of similar bad experiences which have affected your present decisions. Until you consciously change how you think about it, your habitual reaction is to transfer the negative outcomes of the past to your current situation, whether it is in business or relationships. Now, you look at life with the expectation of the bad outcomes, the same as in your past.

• First of all, no one is perfect. If you did something bad or stupid, forgive yourself. We ALL have done bad or stupid things. Why should you be so special as to be able to hold it against yourself. Waa waa waa.  Enough self pity!
• If someone else destroyed your past, don’t take them with you any longer.  Leave them and your past behind. How? Forgive them! You will not forget until your forgive.
  

  Your past does not have to be your future

• The absolute best way to get over the past is to make it look ridiculous. Rerun it in your mind with hilarity. Change the facts by putting some cartoon characters in the past scene. Change it so when you do go back to the past, you have to laugh instead of getting a bad or sad feeling.
• If you consciously control your thoughts, you can stop your negative thinking about the past in its tracks by consciously thinking of the way you want life to be in the future. If you go backward into the past in your thoughts, quickly make the change to a pre-planned thought of the way your want the future to be. Visualize your future and quit rerunning the past in your mind. Literally run a movie in your imagination the way you want your future to be throughout the day and before bed at night. Soon you will have created a new habit of thinking about the future instead of the past.

We all have a past. How we look at our past determines our future. If you want a great future, make the small effort by taking the above steps to put your past in the past. Your bitterness will be a thing of the past, as well.

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