When things seem to be difficult in your life or in your day, it is important to keep your focus on where you want to be, and not on where you once were.  It is easy to dwell on the past and focus on all of the “wrongs” that apparently were placed on you, but the best approach is to move forward leaving all of those things behind you.

When you want to rid yourself of an addiction, you need to walk through an imaginary door, close the door, and leave the addition behind you as you move into the light of your “new” life.  Your life can change in an instant, as you well know, but most people think of that in a negative way – such as an accident, illness, etc.  However, your life can also change for the “better” in an instant as well.

Let go of holding on to what you now have, and have the confidence to trust in the universe to move forward into the unknown.   Yes, plant your beacons and plan your next step towards those beacons,  but after that, let the river of universal energy carry you to where you need to go.   You can guide your “boat” with a paddle, but the current will take you in the general direction of where that energetic “flow” is going.   For each person, that could be in may different directions.

One person may be on a particular path towards say a career in medicine, while another person may be on a path to becoming a carpenter.  The energetic universal “flows” are different for each person, and may change many times over, during a person’s life, years, months, or even throughout the day.

The key is to plan where you would like to “be” and then to “let go” as you do the things you think you need to be doing at this moment.  However, we never say to look back where you once were and start moving backwards.   Leave the past behind you.  You can “replay the film” of events in your life so that you may objectively study those events in order to learn how you might better behave if presented with a similar event in the future.  However, you should only do that if you can keep the emotional aspect of those events away from you.

The ego is very good at “keeping you in the past” and convincing you why your life is where it is because of those events.  The ego will convince you that things are different for you because of your history and that you cannot do the things that others are doing, because maybe you think their past was all roses.    Tell the ego to quiet itself, as you quiet your mind and clear the pathways to “hear” from your inner self.

Your inner self will tell you that the events of your past were all in perfect order, to make you who you are today.   Your inner self will tell you that you can learn from those events, to become stronger and more secure in stepping into the unknown of the future.  Your inner self might tell you that those events of your past were placed there by “you” before you entered this lifetime in order for you to grow from them.   You might then ask yourself if you are in fact growing from your past, or using it as a crutch for why you cannot have a better life.

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If you would like a “better” life, you can choose to have a “better” life.  The choice is all yours.  It is not the universe that placed you where you currently are, but rather choices that are keeping you where you are.  Decide what you would like to be and do with the long journey of life ahead of you.  It does not matter your age, for your life is always just beginning!

Written Wed Jan 15, 2014, 7:29 – 7:43 AM MT