Tuesday, February 28, 2012

Overcoming Fears Connected With Negative Past Experiences

Some of our fears arise due to the situations we have lived through; for
example, if you are driving a car and you have an accident. Then you take
some time to drive again, because the memory of the accident awakens the
fear of having another one or reliving the one you had. The person that has
never had a car accident gets in the car with confidence, because they do
not have that scene recorded, since they haven't lived through it.

There are fears that we carry within us that are not of the present.
Something happened to us in the dark and we are now afraid of the dark.
Fears in relationships: you opened your heart, you fell in love and, after a
time, you experienced pain, you felt hurt, misunderstood, manipulated,
deceived or mistreated, and now you no longer open your heart for anything;
it is closed off with the shields that you yourself have created. To
overcome this kind of fear due to experiences you have lived through, you
have to come to terms with your past and accept it fully. You cannot change
your past; lamenting the past doesn't help you; complaining about the past
doesn't benefit you. Those shields brought about by fears do not disappear
unless you do a deep cleansing. *Begin to heal your experience of the past.
Part of the past is healed with forgiveness. Without forgiving, you cannot
forget.
The work with oneself to see what aspects of your past burden you and coming
to terms with those aspects, requires silence, reflection and meditation.
When you come to terms with your own past, you can let go of it and be free
of it, not be afraid that the past will come back to you. If not, sometimes,
it is like a shadow that follows you. If your house was robbed once, the
shadow follows you that, perhaps, you might be robbed again. If they hurt
you, you fear it will happen again. Sometimes that experience presents
itself in dreams, in the subconscious or in present attitudes. Reliving the
past in your mind, you do not fully enjoy the present. *You have to accept
the pieces of your past so that they do not continue to generate
upsets.*Accept that you had to live through them and live the present
with a
constructive vision of the future.

In the above context,* it helps to write letters to God about your
experiences. The exercise of sharing them with God in writing brings clarity
inside you and helps you to bring the spiritual light and might in your life
in order not to be burdened by unnecessary experiences, unhappiness or
grief.* Have you ever written to God? You could do it at night and tell Him
the things that affected you or that you have learned. You can tell Him the
things or intimate feelings that other people perhaps wouldn't understand or
wouldn't be there to listen to. You could also talk to Him about all that
you question, and you do not have an answer to. And the following morning,
when you meditate and study a little bit of spiritual knowledge, you often
receive answers.

No comments:

Post a Comment