How to Heal the Past

What holds us back from achieving success in every area of our lives is not a lack of will, talent, environment or circumstances. It is actually our past hurts and failures that prevents us from being all that we can be, they are like tormenting demons lurking behind us, like a shadow that hides the light within us. No matter how much we try to change, no matter how much we want to change most of us feels stuck. There seems to be something within us that keeps pulling us back to our old patterns of failure.

None of us had perfect lives, some of us came from dysfunctional families, bad marriages or bad relationships. So we all carry around scars of the past so how can we fix them? How about re-write the story of your life? Take a pen a paper, write on top write the heading “My life”, re-write the story of your life but this time around you and only you are the author of your life…describe the perfect life…starting from your childhood to the current point in your life. Make sure that you keep it positive, don’t take revenge on your enemies by writing something vengeful in this story, that can actually be more damaging for you but rather focus on writing positive things only…Below is an example story I wrote about myself….

My Life

I had a wonderful childhood. I grew up in a rich  and happy family. My mom always hugged me and told me that I was beautiful, talented and special and that I would be successful, happy and rich. My dad understood me, supported me and believed in me.

I felt loved, I felt special. In school I was always the popular kid. I was intelligent, smart and did very well academically and my parents were very proud of me. Everybody loved me…”

I found that I felt liberated and almost free of my past burdens after this exercise. I felt like I had a new sense of self worth and self confidence. Do this process for atleast 7 days. You will find that you are free of all the limitations of the past!