Yes, the past can and does hurt. But something a Disney movie pointed out many years ago, sums it up nicely. Watch this short snippet from The Lion King and have your ah-ha moment.

How amazing that a children’s cartoon, from 22 years ago, can have such wisdom, especially in this day and age when people tend to hold on to their past for dear life, completely fearful of the future. If the past hurt you, why on earth would you hang onto it and dwell upon something that you can not change nor do anything about now anyways? Would it not be smarter to let go of the past and those things that did not work out or what hurt you, and use your time wisely to move forward, and learn and grow and change from these life experiences we call mistakes?  There are NO mistakes. Everything happens for a reason, and if it was not meant to happen, it would not have occurred. Think about that for a moment.

Look back on your life.  Events that we may have called “mistakes” at the time that caused us stress or upset, turning down a job or leaving a relationship, choosing a different career path or even buying a different car. Looking at the situation now, we can see clarity and how making the choice, likely was not a mistake, rather a catalytic change in a part of our lives that desperately needed something different to happen.  When “disaster” hits and something big occurs, it means that the situation really was not going as it should and the universe set in motion a series of events to make you sit up and take notice, and sometimes yes even put us in a position to force us to change, always for the better and for growth.

So you don’t need to sit there thinking you need to hold on to your past mistakes or failures, that the only way to fix the here and now is to keep dwelling on what happened. Stop, and let go and realize “Its in the past, it doesn’t matter anymore!” and take a pro-active approach to realization and acknowledgement and change your mindset to healing from it, then continuously dealing with it. Now is the perfect time to give yourself some self-love and figure out what situation or “mistake” is holding you hostage. Write it out, journal it, yell at yourself in the mirror about it – bring that emotion to the surface. Finish dealing with it once and for all. Do it for a few days until there is nothing more to realize about it. THEN let it go. Say to yourself… “Its in the past, its done, I can’t do anything more about it. Therefore, I let it go. I forgive myself for holding onto it for so long, and  I am older wiser and ready to move on.”  And then you can approach 2017 with a clear conscience and mindset that the past really is the past, you can’t do anything about it anyway and the future has so many new possibilities and destinations, that there is no more room for hanging onto those skeletons in the closet.

Here are a few pointers that you can use in your declutter process, to help you clear out the issues that are making you tired of carrying around that history book!

• The past really is not about the past, its how you are dealing with it in the present moment.
• Memories are not the problem, it’s the power you give to them that’s the problem.
• Healing means letting go. No way around that one.
• The path to healing opens when you are fed up about how the past impacts the present
• You will get a jump start on releasing the past when you can take responsibility and forgive yourself
• Stop dwelling on the past, as each time you do it opens up the wound and you relive it again and again

Remember if you define yourself and your current life by your past and the choices you made then, you will only be living in the past.  Defining yourself by what happened does not help you now. Its like wearing close that do not fit anymore. Its time to take them off.  Buy a new wardrobe for 2017 and clean out that closet – the time is NOW!

Contact any of our Professional Tarot Readers and Advisors to help you unlock the past, and they can show you what the future is all about!