Do you find yourself thinking often about things that happened in your past and feel angry, sad, hurt, resentful, helpless, or guilty? Do these moments make you unhappy or make you lose time? If you answered yes to these questions, you may need to learn how to let go of the past.

There are just too many reasons to become mindful of not dwelling on the past.

You can waste your time and your time is a limited resource.

In addition, you cannot be optimally happy or be your best for those who you care about.

Wasting time and not being happy are important factors to attend to, right?

This post is about how to let go of the past so that you can have optimal happiness in your life.

How to let go of the past

What holding onto your past does for you

keeps you suffering
makes you unattractive to good things and good people
you are stuck
difficult to be prosperous
less than good health
unhappy
emotional toxins

Holding onto your past does not protect you from negative things happening again. Instead, it can cause more negative things to happen because of what is being held in your mind and heart.

All the energy, time, and focus that it takes to hold on and experience your past over and over again, not even mention the suffering that is attached to holding on to your past, takes so much out of you, in ways that you are likely not aware just how much, is more than you would want to spend on yourself.

What does letting go of the past do for you

get free
find happiness
be healthier
attract good things
gain a positive view of life
experience far more success and prosperity in more than one way

Letting go of your negative past will give you a sense of peace and personal power. You will feel empowered to do new and more positive things.

By being empowered in this way, you can give yourself a real chance at happiness and success that you want in your life.

Learning to practice letting go of my past frees me to feel a sense of well-being, a happiness that I never knew while I was holding so tight to my past.

How to let your past go

decide to be happy
gratitude practice
mindfulness
practice being in the now
put in practice a habit of putting things into two categories, what you have the power to control and what you have no power to control
- What you have the power to control: take action
- let go of what you don’t
free yourself from the victim mindset
realize that we are all bees in a hive(we need to be good bees for the hive, for one another) – Marcus Aurelius
be in the mode of loving and giving love

Letting go of your past is one of the greatest gifts that you can give yourself. One of the most powerful and easiest ways is to get free of the victim mindset. The way to get free of it is to see that you are not a victim.

Choosing to move away from the victim identity has helped me to see that I am a capable person who can take actions that affect my life powerfully. In this way, I am apt to reflect on my reactions to things and the very things that I can do to change what needs to change in my life.

Letting go of my past means that I can now be the “master of my fate and the captain of my soul”.

This post was about how to let go of the past so that you can live your full potential life.

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