Allyson Question #38

 

Dear Joshua,

I keep coming across questions around 'past'.

I've heard you say that the past is just that - the past and we don't need to revisit. Is there any value to writing and/or looking at past events from the standpoint of learning? Each piece is a manifestation event ... for me ... so does it help to look at the event and review the potential lesson or even learn from it again just in case I didn't get the lesson the first time?

Thank you!
Allyson


Dear Allyson,

The only purpose of memory is to learn something and to feel good. If you think about something in your past that makes you feel good, that is a very good thing to do. If you are feeling bad and you can use something in your past to help you feel better, then that is a very good use of your memory. However, when you think something wrong happened, then you are perceiving your past in a way that is not only inaccurate, it's not helpful or beneficial. You really have no idea what happened in the past, the events that led to anything in particular, or how the past would have unfolded if the event did not occur or if it happened differently. The past was perfect in every detail. The best possible path unfolded for you, and what you remember of the past is foggy at best. Look toward what you prefer and move in that direction.

Where you are now is the perfect place to be. Had a single thing happen differently than it did, you would not be here now. You would be in some other dimension doing some other thing. You very much wanted to be here and now you find yourself here, so be delighted with that. This is exactly where you intended to be. From this very point, absolutely anything is possible for you. It's your choice to do anything you wish from this point forward.

We will say that if you enter into a manifestation event, you have the ability to recognize what is happening in the moment. If you feel negative emotion, you have the capacity to analyze the fear, process it, and alter your perspective so that you regain your alignment, in that very moment. That is something you can do. You will be doing that more often with practice. You will be processing fear automatically and regaining your alignment very quickly. However, until then you can use your memory of the event to process your fear.

You are used to being swept up in manifestation events. When you feel fear, you are used to succumbing to it and allowing it to linger. It is sometimes only until the next day, when you feel better naturally, do you even think about the event itself and the fear that caused the event in the first place. This is perfectly acceptable. You can do the work to process the fear and reduce the intensity of the limiting beliefs now. You can recollect the event to the best of your abilities and determine what the fear was, that it was irrational, and identify the limiting belief around that fear. You can process it after the fact using your memory. But even after a day, your memory fades so much that some of it will be hard to recall.

Imagine you come to a stop light. The light turns red. You get angry because you perceive that it is holding you up and you're in a hurry. You fume and fuss and bang your hand on the dash board the entire time the light is red. Once it turns green, you feel better and off you go. Now, you could look back at that red light and remember how angry you were and maybe next time you face a red light, you'll remember that eventually it will turn green and you'll be on your way. If you can understand that the light always turns green at some point, you'll feel better next time you reach a red light. However, you could have processed that emotion the first time around. You could have seen the red light as a good thing, not a bad thing in that moment. That power is within you now.

Remember, that every time you experience negative emotion, you've simply arrived at a red light. Nothing is actually wrong, you're just choosing to see it as wrong. As you sat in that line waiting for the red light to turn green, nothing was wrong. You were still breathing. You were still alive. Everything you thought was wrong was simply made up in your mind because you choose a perspective that was based in fear. Every time you feel negative emotion, you can simply return your perspective to the broader perspective of your inner self and feel good.

Certainly, use your memory to learn from past events and to process old fears if you like. If that is a fun and entertaining way to spend your time, then we are all for it. If you think of things in the past that bring you joy, then that is the best use of your memories. Other than that, we suggest looking forward and moving toward the next great adventure.

With our love,
We are Joshua

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