Probably your mind will keep a little of every past event forever. Yet I know persons in their thirties who actually can remember almost nothing of their childhood: it has left them! So the mind can play powerful tricks and help us bury the hurtful, frightening things of our past so we truly can forge a new future.
Whether that future be beautiful and enlightening or a retracing of old mistakes only we alone can self determine. But our minds and hearts are ready to back up our efforts completely if we will but make the attempt!
In my early thirties I was literally struck down with a rare kidney disease. My body rapidly filled with salt water and I became hideously overweight and paralyzed. I did not give up! I suffered severe depression but all through this traumatic time of healing I steadfastly believed I could make it through alive and emerge a new person with higher ideals, a far more profound attitude to understanding the essence of what life is!
And gradually as my body righted itself I grew in confidence and thankfulness and determined to live a new life of happy fruitfulness coupled with serene calm and a delightful oblivion to little daily problems such as money (or the lack of it) and emotional problems and relationship problems and family trauma and, well, the list goes on!
My ultimate hope is that I will actually change the world around me as I move through life: the people I meet respond to me differently to any response they have ever known before! I have a calm assurance that I am, and nothing can alter my serenity.
I often sing, after all why not? I am but passing through, what matters it what others think? I rarely trouble about the opinion of others; they have not suffered hideous physical discomfort and disfigurement to the point of death as I have. That is not their fault! Or mine. I have to chill out and take everything smoothly. Remain unruffled, unpressured, unspoilt!
Sometimes I have tremendous highs of emotion and sometimes terrible lows. But ever since leaving the kidney ward of the university hospital in a wheelchair I have discovered a new beautiful way of thought for my mind and my soul and I have endeavored to make every day bright and exciting and happy for both myself and the folk around me and day by day and step by step, my memory has become so surrounded with the happy and the exciting and the positive that the hurt and terror I felt lest I should return unto that horrifying illness has largely healed over in my mind and I face my future with a clear mind and a defiant heart!
And so can you! Set yourself a challenge each day for a greater cause outside your daily life that you can deeply empathize with and take time to work your way toward completing your challenge. The world is greater than your locality! Most of your daily problems happen to you because of where you exist currently. So walk into the bigger world and expand your mindset and in time you will achieve great things for humanity! Set yourself huge goals and challenges, not for your own prosperity but for whatever greater world cause inspires you. Become immersed and journey forward.
Let the uncomfortable, hurtful, traumatic past heal away as a scab upon your hand, and become immersed in a new present that promises you a new future. Move to a new area - this can be the greatest help! New surroundings soon freshen your outlook! I am just relocating 250 miles from Wales to South England in the UK. What challenges lie ahead? Nothing I cannot journey beyond! This will become a door closed on my past sufferings. A new land of great content! You too can heal from the past. Hold up your head and smile upon your great new future: why should you suffer longer? You have suffered enough. Close the door gently on your past today and enjoy all that awaits you! I promise it will be good!
