Dragging the past around!

Many of us drag the past around in our heads; old hurts, grudges, memories – both good and bad. This can get very tiring and serves us no purpose at all. We may have heard of the Buddhist wisdom of LIVING IN THE PRESENT but it is not that easy. Our brains get wired up to plan ahead, reflect back, and living right here right now, is sometimes challenging. So how can we help ourselves do it?

• Go to each room in your house and ask yourself the question – does everything in this room support me right here right now. If not, pack it up and take it away.

This is not to say we cannot keep momentums and things from the past, but only the things which support us.
Speaking to someone who has just accomplished a massive clear out I can’t tell you just how good it feels! Well actually I can, and I will.

• I collected so many bags of cloths, most of which I still really liked but asked myself the question- have I worn this in the past six months? if not out it goes.
• Books and bric-a-brac were sold at a car-boot sale which we did last week.
• Cloths, books and rugs were donated to charity.
• Not only did I get a sense of re-cycling to help the planet, I also cleared my mind and brought it into the present.

So I would urge you all to have a go. Have a spring- clean and enjoy the mental as well as the physical benefit of ditching things from the past.
Whilst I have been writing this a cartoon drawing came to mind which I saw on a post card years ago. For those of you who are cat lovers you will be able to relate to this, if you have ever done your Christmas present wrapping with your cat in the same room. You know they cannot resist sitting in the cardboard box!

The picture was just that, a cat sitting in a box with a wrapping ribbon next to it and the caption was” living in the present”
So welcome the spring and summer in by first ditching the past and living in the present. I promise you the pay off is wonderful there’s no stopping me now each and every room has been looked at in that way.

TrustvDoubt

• Last night I had a strange dream, I dreamt that someone in the past who had been my antagonist was being really kind to me, as though she wanted to draw a line in the sand about our differences. In the dream she was showing concern for me and offering help. When we parted she gave me a really big hug.
  • As you can imagine I woke up feeling warm and content. As I was getting myself going I pondered on the healing qualities and of the mind. It seemed to me that the dream was so real and yet I thought- would that ever happen in reality? I thought, probably not! The person in question was someone from work and her actions were out of character. Did this matter? , I asked myself and thought probably not. The dream had left me with the positive outcome that I wanted. The two us forgiving and moving on. This got me thinking about the power of forgiveness and the way it releases us from our past habit patterns. Most of us carry around bitterness and anger from the past and although , on the grand scale of bitterness, I was doing very well and had left go of the negative emotions I used to have about this person . My dream was like and message to move on even further. I pretended that the dream was not a dream made up from wishful thinking but was reality. I challenged myself to accept this as reality and reflected how I felt.
• It provided me with a deep sense of trust, hard to explain, other than I felt reassured that she no longer hated me! On my travels along the motorway that morning , I was struck by the comradeship and care of my fellow drivers; spurred on by my overwhelming feelings of trust. Part of my journey that morning involved driving along a very busy stretch of the motorway, whenever there was approaching danger, drivers’ indicated to each other by putting their hazard lights on to draw attention to a change of speed. As usual I did the same. Today I took more notice of the care and concern drivers had for each other’s safely and I felt strongly that we were all looking after each other and protecting each other. For the second time I experienced a lovely state of happiness and warmth. I wondered if my positive dream had set the scene for the day. Trust and it will be okay. Having had a wonderfully positive day based on my belief in trust, I would encourage each and every one of you to give it more thought and dedication. Think of an area in your life where you are doubting, see if you can detect, first the doubt and then imagine the problem from a position of trust. Feel the release of the negative energy! I truly had a wonderful day and felt really connected to strangers all because of a dream! I thought that it would be wonderful if I could feel that this each day.I then challenged myself to make other days as nice by practicing the power tool of trust v doubt – it is so powerful!