Past Experiences

We are not our pasts, but alas, they do play a key role in how we move forward.

Our past experiences are filled with emotions, feelings, and thoughts that are kept and stored within the body. They serve as a memory of what was, which our brains use to help us navigate what will be. This can be a blessing and a curse. If we do not utilize our ability to rewrite ourselves, we fall into the paradigm of reliving our past, over and over. We never allow ourselves to move forward, as our brain reminds us what has happened previously and keeps us within a hell loop.

Now this can help us avoid making the same mistake, but it can also keep us bound to the tragedies of our past. There is a sweet spot within the memories of the past, that if attained, can help us propel forward and grow. Many “negative” past experiences carry a weight to them that most have not been conditioned and taught to release. Instead, we have been shown to compartmentalize this weight and add it to our backpack of experiences.

Overtime, this backpack gets heavier and heavier.
We do not stop experiencing moments. Because of this, it is crucial to learn how to release this weight once it is given to us. It is not ours to hold onto. It is there to be felt, experienced, and released back into the reality around us.
Energy cannot be formed nor destroyed.
Our experiences are simply energetic forms of weights that we have become pack rats for.

Everyone experiences their life moments in a way that is unique to them. It is simply not possible to gauge how one will be impacted. Rather, we should shift attention to how we release. This is something that is possible for all of us. The process still being unique to the individual, yet a shared experience by all.

We have the ability to release what no longer serves us. We do not need to hold onto the weight of the past to help better our future. By letting go of this weight and leaving it to be, we allow ourselves the freedom to move forward without a deep-sitting ache.
We allow ourselves to truly feel what it means to be happy and free.

Attachment breeds sorrow.

The past can be viewed as multiple attachment cords holding us to the the moments that brought us pain and sorrow. Granted, there are moments of bliss and other emotions within the past as well, but most don’t dwell on those. We have an inherent behavior to fixate on the negative.

So how does one release this weight?
How do we sever the cords that keep us bound back?

We must face ourselves.
Our experiences.
Our traumas.
Only we have the power to do such. It is not easy and it is not meant for the faint of heart. To release the past that we carry with us, we have to be willing to face it head on. We have to open our rucksacks that we carry this weight within and go through all what we have collected over the years.
Only we have the ability to do such.

When we do this, we are met with the same emotional and physical sensations that were experienced within that past moment. It is crucial to remember that these are just sensations. They are not our living reality, rather just our brains reliving the memory.
The brain is a complex system that is able to mistake the past for the present.

Knowing this, we can move forward in peace knowing that the overwhelming pain being brought to the surface is just a moment in time. It will not be there forever.
Like a storm passing through, the sun will come out once again.
The storm may take sometime to make landfall, but once it does, it will run its course and pass.

We do not have to fear what was.
It is within these moments that our greatest power lies.