Letting Go Of The Past

Can I stop the past from being intrusive in the present? Whatever happens, leaves a memory, a recording. The aim is not to get rid of the past but to value the present. But the power to change thoughts and feelings is today.

Today is where I create my future.
I am recording.
Moment by Moment
I can learn to view the past in a more positive way.
As I meditate, I become clearer.

Transcript

I'm Shanti,

So welcome to Soul to Soul and this is Rose from Brameka Marries in Glasgow and we are going to talk about letting go of the past.

So if I look at the past and think about what is actually the past.

We've been on a long journey even if you only count your life.

Second by second,

Day by day,

Year by year,

We've collected a lot of memories and we recorded those memories.

So we have a bundle.

It's as if our head is a cupboard,

Our mind,

Our intellect is full of those memories.

Some of them may be still useful to us and others are not so useful.

So how can I stop the past being intrusive in the present?

Because sometimes if we're trailing along a lot of sadness it creates heaviness in us forever,

Day in day out,

Year in year out,

I remember I remember,

Woe is me,

Oh my goodness if only if only if only,

Oh gosh I feel so sad because I remembered this today,

Oh I feel so rejected and heartbroken.

So whatever happens it leaves a memory,

A recording.

So when I practice Raja Yoga meditation it's not to get rid of the past,

Everything has its place but to value the present because that's where we're living now in the present.

And the burden of the sad things from the past will stop me from happiness today because it will constantly intrude into my present.

Things will trigger me off,

A colour,

A person,

A sound,

A song and I'm sad and I think oh if only,

Why,

Oh gosh and even happy things can make me sad because it's not there anymore and therefore I can think oh gosh I wonder what might have been,

I wonder or why did that happen to spoil something that was so beautiful.

However today I have the power to change these thoughts and feelings and how is that I would change them.

I'm recording moment by moment and when I practice meditation then more and more I can begin to see the power of being peaceful and that my original nature is pure energy,

Feelings of peace which allow me to be kindly and loving and can encourage happiness.

So I can bring those energies back to me today and I need to make a space for those energies to come back,

I need to transform some of the old,

The old energies that's causing me sadness.

And so moment by moment I can learn to view the past in a more positive way.

As I meditate I become clearer,

It's very freeing to learn about habits by observing the past and realise that memories are not always accurate.

They may be a little bit but I've maybe changed them a little bit because as I replace stories it's tempting to alter the story.

So I haven't even told myself the truth about my memories.

However honesty is the best policy so why,

Why is this and why did I alter it?

And as I look at what I think are my memories have I put too much of the blame on someone else?

Maybe I can look at it very clearly and see that well maybe it wasn't quite like that.

So maybe I can brush up those memories and then there's some memories maybe of no use to me now so what's the point of thinking of things that created huge pain and and it's gone and there's no way of fixing in any way.

There's always a way actually I can send good wishes to whoever I was interacting with and an unpleasant outcome I can see it as perhaps having been beneficial in some way.

Because letting go of the past does not mean to let go of memories but just to use any reflection to learn from and then to let go.

Because now I'm in today's world and I have to make the most of what's in today's world.

So what is it I should begin looking at what is it that triggers off feelings of discomfort within me now?

So before going to sleep at night look at what made you uncomfortable.

So have a few minutes of meditation to yourself with God if possible or with yourself if need be.

Talk to yourself and make decisions for the way forward like I'm gonna do something different here or I'm gonna have better feelings towards whatever happened there.

Practice putting a full stop this actually gives you power when you put a full stop because that which was hurting you is eroding your energy so just imagine how many things of discomfort we have inside our mind that's eroding our power.

So just pausing the drama for a second and at that point nothing is happening I'm just sitting perhaps even sitting by myself so stop and be quiet and be at peace and then I can pack up my thoughts.

You know it seems so simple but when I do that I pack up something that's been taking away my energy and if I have the habit here's something else the next time here's something else I'll pack up on that and oh here's something else then my energy can grow and develop.

So do everything in our power to not add any more hurt feelings into your memory track.

Allow your memory track to have times of being calm.

How can I do that?

So no matter how awful something is I can start to see it in the right way by understanding the role that my own emotions play and how they have been playing and tugged here and there along that journey that we call our life journey and I've been carrying that with me every hurt every sadness carrying it every day and that's why I become weaker and weaker.

Do I need to carry heavy emotions with me into the future?

Does that make sense?

Does it make sense that I carry these things with me?

And will I keep them till the end of my story the end of my journey to my last breath to the end of my life I'll have no power to the end of my life I'll have even I'll add to them and add to them because the habits will still be there.

Does it make sense?

Does it?

Will I keep them till the end of my story?

If I do when I come to the end of my story we all do I mean this is not dramatic though do we have a lifespan we know that we've had a journey the journey comes to an end so if I keep all these heavy things with me then I come to the end of my story I'll be sad and full of regret I wish I wish I wish I wish I had I wish I hadn't done that I wish I'd said something I wish I'd been kinder I wish I'd been friendlier I wish I could have put that right and so I have to look at this that my natural state is peaceful that's why we feel so upset by things that are not peaceful in our lives and then I picked up some emotional baggage on the journey so how can meditation help me after member of my soul and that the one with all the energies that I require for my journey is the one above the highest energy that energy is purest and the ocean of peace the ocean of love and the ocean of happiness so if I can meditate and think about that one and what the meaning is of knowing that one and knowing that I'm a soul and that those same energies are actually within me and I can't get those energies from human beings this is a deal between me and the one above so can I now move into the future with less emotional baggage and more light-heartedness and courage so we make our own journey we create our own story and we did not know on that long journey about the soul or the energies of the soul and how we could calm our emotions and to remember everything leaves a memory a recording so the more I think of peace the more I think of love and the more I think of happiness it's leaving a memory a recording and again it's not to get rid of the past but to value the present I begin to overwrite the past and keep what I want to keep but to get rid of everything that's making me uncomfortable and it's today when I create my future and I am recording over the old moment by moment and as I meditate I become more and more clear and I free myself more and more from emotional feelings of the past by observing the past I also realize I can put things right now in my mind and and think how to make it accurate as it actually happened not as I changed it to make it feel better so it's not by changing it but it's to overwrite it with happiness and lightness and forgiveness but not to change the actual story to say well actually we didn't go there we went there because that's not true because it's recorded okay so remember not to blame others and to have an honest heart this is the very very best way I can think and to look at what is it that's that's triggering within me now feelings of discomfort and say I have to put this right I put it right in my own mind okay I'm shanty could you say something about the change process being a little bit uncomfortable or a lot uncomfortable I was thinking about when things are familiar we associate that with comfort or with the known and then to move into something new can feel a bit tricky what you're saying is that it's tricky because you form the energy patterns of the old and anything that we try to change and causes a bit of a upset in our energy patterns so it's like our energy patterns have a bit of a commotion there so I can feel quite uncomfortable and get tugged in a couple of different directions and think well what's this all about it it's like if I'm unwell and I get medicine quite often they'll say you'll feel a lot worse when you take this medicine why because the unwell has moved that particular situation energy situation into a situation that's downgraded because there's an illness there now when I take medicine that's going to make that better to say it does make it better then there's going to be a change in your energy patterns so even though you're getting well you can feel quite unwell and think this medicine isn't working but it is working it's just you have to go with the change and see that oh well a lot of people nowadays they've figured it out in a way but they don't know about the soul so they call it detox and they say you'll feel really unwell when you do this because you'll have a detox it's the body trying to go back to how it was before the sickness so in a way it's trying to reverse itself back in time in a way you could say and that's going to cause a bit of upheaval in the body system so it's the same when we try to look at the past and the unpleasant things are the things I don't want now I'm going to try and put things back in their place and as I put things back in their place it will cause a bit of a detox a spiritual detox so to go beyond that and know that what you're doing is going to bring you happiness and power and strength okay realizing how exhausting emotion is extremes of emotion what would you say on a practical level what kind of thoughts can I create when I'm starting off trying to calm down those emotions to move into a more natural calm sort of balanced emotional state on a daily basis if I've been used to being on a emotional roller coaster every day okay we sometimes think emotions are great and they're making me feel really like dancing and singing and happy and all the rest of it I'm not saying don't go there but what I'm saying is have a look at the type of emotions because most emotions in today's lifestyle are peace lessness and what we're practicing is peacefulness which is why I need periods of stillness and silence and if I don't have periods of stillness and silence I'm trying to understand them something while still in states of huge emotional disturbances in my mind and it won't actually work I need to make myself calm if I want any of this to resonate I'm chanting there's an interesting question online which is but is wondering how do I move forward without leaving that behind in the wrong way so that you still feel a connection to your yeah that's very nice but the more you let go the heavy emotion and the disturbance you will come closer to your younger self in real time because you get fresher purer more empowered clearer more loving light-hearted more strength of the body more strength of the mind more capacity to think more than your younger self was able to because it didn't understand your younger self if you look at it you possibly look at the body self and actually now we're looking at the whole package you'll find the benefit in there your body your mind your connections everything as you start to put the energy back via the mind and peacefulness right when you said you overwrite the past with happiness and lightness it's not that you forget it but your vision of it changes yeah your vision will change so sometimes you'll see that you were blaming someone and dramatically for 20 years 30 years and when you start to look you think hmm actually maybe I was pretty involved there as well it wasn't all their fault so you're now putting that difference into the equation and you overwrite it with what you know see as accurate or you could overwrite it by saying I'm not going there anymore I don't know that's caused me so much trauma and it was kind of foolish I was really carried away there or you'll see something you'll see that it drained you of energy it turned it changed your personality made you sad for years and years you don't want to go there anymore so you're overwriting you're making decisions now for what you're not going to carry with you you cannot change what happened but you can decide what you're going to take along with you for the next part of your journey I'm chanting so we'll have a couple of minutes the meditation so we'll sit and we'll focus on the center of the forehead but we're energy this energy drives the body this energy has always been the energy that empowered the body the mind the intellect the body but I was completely unaware so the same energy the same me a bit changed by the journey but now I can understand I am the energy in the center of the forehead and I don't want to carry sadness and I don't want to carry wrong ideas of others and keep blaming them till the end of my journey it's now my time to realize myself and take responsibility for my thoughts my words my deeds my interactions with others and if I'm very very honest in my heart I will see that I have blamed others quite often unnecessarily for actions that I performed and for that in my heart I will sincerely want to send good vibrations and love and change that image very very dramatically and I hope they pick up the signal or if I'm still in connection I can change the relationship even if someone has left their body I can send those signals to them because they will pick it up and it will make their thinking lighter because they are also carrying the other side of those memories and they also will be disempowered and sad and distressed even if they've left their bodies the memory patterns will have gone with them so now I can be helpful I can be honest and loving light-hearted and forgiving I am the soul the energy in this physical body I am peace peace is our greatest power everything comes from peace so I look at peace lessness this is how I overwrite from peace lessness to peacefulness because now I understand I am the soul Oh BETTER NEW Enter Sadly

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