Let Go Of The Past and Live The Life You Desire

Are we living in a time where we are not moving forward as we should be?

We tend to make life harder than it really has to be when we choose to hold onto the anger, hurt, pain and emotions that we have experienced throughout our life. In essence, we keep ourselves locked up and disconnected from the life we can have.

Change begins with a choice.

All of us in some way has felt abuse or hurt in some way at the hand of another or we wouldn't be having this conversation. The key to getting past it is to choose to let it go.

We cannot change the past no matter how hard we try.

If we are honest about it, we would have to admit that either now or at some point we have wanted those that have hurt us to suffer for what they have done to us. Unfortunately our minds are messed up in thinking that if WE are suffering, that will cause them to suffer. Sadly, we keep ourselves in bondage through this type of thinking and more so it's not even the case. People that hurt others move on and sadly it's those that are hurt that do not or have a harder time moving forward. But it all begins with a change in our mindset.

We have to be determined to live freely in spite of our past circumstances in life. 

Think of where you were 5 years ago in your feelings towards your parents, friends, siblings or anyone that has hurt you. Has anything changed? Usually not or if so that change consists of even more anger, frustration, hurt and resentments because pain builds and overflows. But the same is true when we exercise forgiveness.

When we choose to let it go..

Peace, Joy, Love and Excitement begins to take the place of the negatives and freedom then emerges in it's place. 

However, we will never get to replacing the negatives with positives if we don't take the first step towards forgiveness. 

Those that do not forgive do not learn to love or how to accept love from another because they cannot see it.

We must learn to let it go and move forward so that we can have the life that we envision ourselves having even in the midst of the storms of life.