Release The Past

You can't change what happened in the past,

but you have choice over how you live NOW

Forgiveness is about releasing your negative

emotions and perceptions

about the painful events.

Otherwise you keep yourself chained to those events or people –

you keep it alive within you –

and you carry it with you where-ever you go.

It is a very heavy burden to carry around and

you end up crippling yourself

emotionally, mentally, spiritually and physically.

Holding on to anger, resentment, etc. keeps you in 'victim' mode - powerless.

It means you are letting those people who have hurt you in the past

dictate who you are in the present moment.

You can take your power back by releasing these negative emotions and

no longer let them hold sway over your thoughts, feelings and actions

Only you are responsible for what you do, think and feel.

You can choose to hold on to painful events,

like a weight around your neck, or

you can choose to remove that burden by releasing it

(giving it no more emotional energy and therefore power) and

living a happier life despite past circumstances.

In other words...

let the past be in the past, and

live in the now moment.

You can't change what happened in the past, but

you have choice over how you live now.