Detach from Your Old Mental Photo Album
“We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.” – Georges Duhamel, The Heart’s Domain
Do you keep an archive of unhappy memories?
What is the type of pictures that you constantly replay in your mind?
Is the photo album in your mind filled with pictures of your arguments, insults and failures?
When I was moving my home last year, I had to unpack and pack away boxes of photo albums. Most of them belonged to my husband with photos taken when he was young. However, there were a few boxes that were mine. I soon found myself very occupied with looking through the albums.
I had photo albums of my children as soon as they were born. I had photos of myself on various holiday trips before I got married. I also had photos of my childhood. Each photo was precious for it captured a significant moment or a happy memory.
As I flipped through my albums, I started showing some of these photos with family and friends that I have taken them with. We recalled old times. Soon, we were laughing over some of the things that seemed cool years ago but are no longer now.
Certainly, photo albums are great things to keep as they help stir up wonderful memories. However, I am aware that there is another photo album that most of us refer to. It is the photo album that we have mentally. In fact, we tend to pore through this album more than the ones we have physically in our homes.
What is to be noted is that our mental photo albums are often filled with memories of our most horrible moments. We remember our sorrows, pain and failures more than the shared happy times. Some events even seem as if they took place yesterday, even though they could have happened years ago. For the particularly significant ones, we even replay them like a movie or slideshow in our minds.
Unfortunately, mental photo albums that are filled with negativity can hold us back. They cause us to be stuck. We get paranoid and we feel victimized because of something that has happened in the past. We continue to be haunted by them. At the most severe, the photo albums are our nightmares.
So What Can You Do About Negative Mental Photo Albums?
Here are some steps:
1. Ask yourself if instead of holding on to the vision of love and happiness, old images keep popping into your head. Realize that you are not free. Your mind is imprisoned because of the old photo album that you first kept into storage years ago. Your beliefs become limiting due to these mental photo albums.
2. To free the self from its mental prison involves first making the choice to do so. Acknowledge that you have been stuck because of something that has happened in the past. It no longer serves you to keep the trauma and pain.
3. While it is not possible to erase the past because the event did actually happen, what you can do is to release the emotional attachments from the memory of it. Your pain and suffering are all in the mind and it is up to you to let them go. No longer let past trauma hold you back from doing the things that you would like to do and be the person that you can be.
For detaching to the past, you can use mindfulness meditation. However, meditation usually takes a while to master with a mind that is anything but quiet. Alternatively, you can do this in a relatively faster way with energy releasing methods such as Emotional Freedom Technique.
It is time to focus more on the dreams that will bring you forward rather than the doubts created by past traumas or failures. Remember what you hold mentally is going to manifest in your physical reality. Fill your mind with visions of success and let these images take hold.
Love and abundance always,
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