[www.keralites.net] Forgetting the past

 

 

Forgetting the past!   A reader asked: " I want to forget my past but I could not. What to do?" Observe that "I want to forget my past" does not work. It does not matter what "method" someone may want to use. The "I" cannot forget at will just as the "I" cannot stop thinking at will. To say to someone "forget and forgive" is completely meaningless. Nice words to say, it sounds wise, but that is as far as it goes. It is not about trying to "forget something," that is like trying to catch your own shadow. It is not a matter of DOING something like drinking tequila to "forget." The past is gone. It will be remembered if that was a cause of trauma, which means if it wasn't accepted as it was. What otherwise was like a flowing river;  becomes stuck in a particular place due to a trauma perceived by the "I." Thus, the "keyword" to emotionally understand this issue is Acceptance. Acceptance is not a concept, a nice thought to be entertained with or some sort of "spiritual" catchphrase. If your mind says: "That makes sense. I will accept my past." Nothing will happen. You will still remember it. The trauma is there. Acceptance is to take away the blockages which are not allowing the waters of the river, to flow freely. "Taking away" the blockages means to realize the beliefs, ideals, hang ups causing the trauma. For example, you may have experienced a hard childhood. Whatever hardship you may think that you endured, has taken you today to where you are. Do you see that? Would you label yourself as a "failure," a byproduct of that traumatic childhood? Yes? That is where lack of love will begin. It begins as a rejection to ourselves. We cannot forget something which we blame to be the cause of our "failure." That memory will be triggered over and over by different events. All we are showing in our reactions, is our own suffering. That lack of self-love will cause our inability to have a healthy connection with another human being, where love is at stake. No? Then, if you are not a "failure," then ask yourself: Why that pain from the past cannot be let go, accepted as part of Life? You may have broken your finger in the past, but even if you remember the experience, it will  be neutral, it will not move you a bit. You can only be emotionally moved by something from the past, if that hasn't been accepted, assimilated, processed. Do you see that the type of acceptance I am talking about, is not coming from the mind? Find the rejection. That is all. Once you find it, accept it with your heart. I found out that a very dear friend of mine, passed away yesterday. Memories of the past will be triggered. My mind could even say how unfair life is. She was so young and full of artistic zest. Whatever my mind adds as justification or explanation, is just an interpretation. To accept means to feel the event whole in its entirety, without finding a place to hide. By allowing the event to go through me, it will not be stuck in my emotions as a trauma.  By not using my mind to explain and justify things based on my ideas and conditioning, it will go through me as it came.  For when you are an empty door, aware of who is passing by, there is no place for a trauma to stay. Rejection of a Life experience is the obstacle not allowing the river of Life to flow, to change.  The past is only memory. Observe how you perceive it, observe your own interpretation of it and how much damage we can do to ourselves when that interpretation does not fit the ideal that we have of how Life "should be." Life is. Always the present, always the "now."   Embrace, love it, move with it.  :-)

 

 

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Posted by: Cool Kis <cooolkis@gmail.com>

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