It would be nice if we could erase the past and start over
without any trace of the pain or memories to remind us of that part of
our life. But we know that life doesn’t happen that way. And even when
we have dealt with something in what we thought was a decisive way, the
past has a way of showing up when we don’t want it to. Why is that?
Because the past serves a useful purpose in the present and we need this
information to make our choices if we want to avoid repeating the past.
Without the lessons of the past, we wouldn’t know the best course to
follow today.
When we are in a transition space or at a crossroads
the past becomes our best friend because it often reminds us of what we
do not want to choose now. While we think that these reminders of the
past arise just to show us how we failed or made the wrong choices, at
the time, they felt like the only right or best choices we could make.
It’s only after we have lived with them and are now at the end of their
‘energy road’ that we want other options. Rather than see this as a
failure, we can see it as a reminder of the path which is best left to
the past and seek other options.
But if we judge our past as one
big failure because we are not happy, rich, and successful today then we
are not using the past and its information effectively. We need to look
at the energy frequency of our choices, our own vibration, our level of
fear, and how clear and confident we were in the past. We also need to
look at our expectations of the outcomes and results and what we were
willing tolerate or settle for because that is how we made the final
decision about our past choices. And we can view our intuition, our
internal guidance system, the link between our will, divine will, and
spirit, as the bridge that will help us plot the course to a more
fulfilling, joyful life than we had in the past.
On an energetic
level, the past sets the energetic frequency baseline for the present,
this is the point at which we do not want to go ‘backwards’ or repeat
what we experienced in the past. Thus our past is a great starting point
for what we wish to create in the present and it also reminds us of
what we want to change. Think of something you ‘never want to do again’
and that sets an energetic line in the sand, so to speak, that you know
you want to rise above and not cross again by repeating that experience.
And
we need to look at our intuition and how we were using it in the past.
This is our inner guidance system, that small voice we so often overlook
when it says ‘no, don’t do that’ or ‘that is probably not your most
powerful choice’. Have you ever tried to make a choice and kept getting
blocked in every direction? Did you have to try really hard to do it
anyway? What did you think of your results? That was your intuition in
action, trying to guide your choices into a higher aspect but if we
don’t listen to it, we’ll get different results than we could have.When
we listen to our intuition we engage our most powerful spiritual
connection and begin the process of expanding into new potentials for
our life. But if we don’t trust ourselves, if we judge our abilities
(and our results from the past), and if we limit our expansion, then
rather than a trusted guide, our intuition becomes a nagging voice that
tries to stop us from doing what we want. This is another thing we need
to look at very honestly when we’re looking at the past – did we ignore
our intuition and do something else? Were we so focused on going our
own way that we ignored all other possibilities? We can also invite our
intuition to help us assess our present choices to help us find new
avenues of potential and avoid repeating the past we don’t want to
repeat.
When we use the combination of the results from the past,
the potential for the future and our intuition as our guide to the
highest and best outcomes, we have a recipe for manifestation that will
help us make more powerful choices. So rather than regretting the past,
we can put it to work for us as a benchmark for what we may want to
avoid in the present. And that allows us to set the energetic vibration
for our next set of choices so the past is not repeated in the present.
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