Today we're talking about release past hurts.
Release past hurts.
Don't live in the past.
No matter how painful your past has been,
Your wound is not meant to be relived now in the present.
You don't need to know why things happened.
Some things are beyond our understanding.
What is more useful is to accept that the past is gone and the future is still forming.
Living now,
This is all there is.
Don't bring your pain forward.
Drop it on the side of the road and move on.
The universe.
Now this channeling actually seems a little harsh to me like okay get over it.
It's not what it's.
.
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There's a deeper level.
So maybe you've had in your life a relationship that was just terrible.
Maybe there was a big betrayal or a lot of cruelty or abuse and this happened earlier in your life.
And so now it's it's years or decades later and you still have the sting of this you know betrayal or abuse or cruelty.
So how do you get through it?
And and maybe if you went to psychotherapy the idea is that you're supposed to you know revisit it until you're you come to some realizations and you become clear.
And I think that's a pretty good idea.
I think psychotherapy is pretty useful.
And that's one approach and and spiritual approach is this idea that some things are beyond our understanding.
What is more useful is to accept that the past is gone and the future is still forming.
And so the idea is that maybe you were carrying this burden this again this abuse or this betrayal or this cruelty and you've just been carrying it and carrying it and carrying it.
And yes it was a terrible time and you were wounded and you were mistreated and you were hurt and it took you a long time to recover from that.
Or it's quite possible you were the one that was the toxic person.
You were the one causing the pain and now you've realized the error of your ways but it still gnaws at you.
You feel so guilty or you still feel so ashamed of how you behaved.
What the universe is saying is don't bring your pain forward.
Drop it on the side of the road and move on.
I find it interesting because in Christianity and I was raised Presbyterian and then Catholic so I had a pretty good drenching in Bible study and Christian and Catholic teachings.
This idea that Jesus died for our sins and when you become born again in Jesus,
Born again in Christ,
You become sin free.
And part of that's the idea of some people think we're born with original sin and then some people have the idea that we have sins that we commit as we're moving along our lives.
And then you contrast this with maybe Matthew Fox's idea of we're born with original blessing and that there isn't,
Not his idea only,
But this bigger idea that there isn't any sin,
It's just soul lessons.
But what's interesting about the Christian approach is this idea that you could become forgiven for your sins.
You could become forgiven for the things that you regret.
It's kind of similar to this idea,
Don't bring your pain forward,
Drop it on the side of the road and move on.
The difference is that instead of being absolved by a religion or a deity,
You're absolving yourself.
You're saying I have compassion for myself in this terrible experience I had.
I have compassion for the other person with whom I was in this terrible experience.
Whether you were the perpetrator or you were the victim or maybe sometimes some of both.
I have compassion,
I release it,
I let it go.
We really can't live in the past.
We are beautifully flawed people,
All of us.
We make countless mistakes and so when we kind of like give ourselves a pass for not being who we think we should have been or for allowing things to happen that hurt us and just kind of decide to move on.
I like to have the image of,
You know,
We carry our past wounds like these big bags of black grit,
Just all on our backs,
Just struggling bringing them.
And then we can literally just drop these bags on the side of the road and decide I need to be free from that.
I'm going to be free from that.
I self-absolve.
Now of course if you have been the the big jerk,
The big meanie,
The big the big the abuser,
The perpetrator,
All these things,
Then it's it's probably time for you to make reparation,
To go back and say you're sorry or to go back and help right the situation.
Sometimes it's time for that,
Sometimes it's not.
But the idea is to self-absolve,
To have compassion for yourself and all beings and just to move forward wiser and stronger and kinder knowing that we're all in this together and we're all here to help each other grow.
