How do I let go of my past?

For me, the most important thing I ever did to let go of my past was to forgive myself. The best way to do that is to take active steps to recognize what went wrong and to use that information to improve yourself. Learning from your mistakes and making an effort to be better is healing, and once you're able to forgive yourself for what happened, you can live with it. You also have to remember to give yourself time to process what hurt you, or else you won't be able to move forward. Once that's done however, and you've learned from your past, try not to obsess over it. There's only so much good that can come from reliving past hurt, and you deserve to move forward.

By developing mindfulness! Whenever thoughts of the past arise, just notice them, watch them appear and show their "ugly faces", but don't follow them, don't buy into their stories. As soon as you learn not to indulge and put energy into these thoughts, they will release you. At first you develop this while doing a formal sitting meditation. You train this mindfulness in a "laboratory of your mind" so to say. In time, you will notice that you are able to be mindful of your thoughts and actions after mediation as well. At that point no thoughts will be able to disturb you anymore in any situation. So train again and again, until you reach the results. This practice is known as the "Vipassana" meditation.

In order to let go of your past, you have to concentrate on your future. Focus on what really maters in life. For example, your relationships, your job(s), or anything else that is important to you. Taking time for yourself is also a HUGE part in letting go of your past. Go take a day to yourself, let your emotions sink in and see how you really feel about life and what it can become for you. Life is a very bumpy road that can soon become a nice smooth paved road. In order to get that smooth road you have to go through that bumpy road. It may feel like complete crap but remember that you have that smooth road to look forward to. That smooth road is the road to a good life filled with love and energy.

I guess it depends on why you want to let go. Sometimes we want to let go of things that we should face. For example, I feel that there are things in my past that I need to deal with which is causing me to be stagnant in certain areas of my life. However, I do not really want to face them. I avoid them even though I know I need to actually confront it in order to move on. So in short, my answer is that in order for you to.let go of your past, you have to honestly face it and deal with whatever emotional issues STEM from it. After which, you will see that you can move on.

I let go of my past by forgiving myself and knowing that I'm not the same person I was in the past. Incidents in the past do not define me, as we are all able to learn and grow from the experiences we have had in the past. Letting go is something I do for myself and to heal myself. Letting go doesn't mean I have forgotten the incident, person, or memory. Instead, letting go is a tool we can use to heal from pain and anger. Letting go leads to a happier life and we should all embrace that!

Some people might say, look only to the future. However, in letting go of our past, we should also acknowledge it and gain wisdom from it - and yet leave it there, where it belongs in the past. In letting go of your past, you are saying that you are no longer the same as the person of the past; what has been done to you does not need to have power over you in the present; and what you have done does not need to define your future. This may involve some kind of reinvention of yourself; it may involve rejecting the labelling and stereotyping of others. It may very likely involve asking for forgiveness, and giving forgiveness. These are not always easy things - but if you are to let go of the past and move forward in the future, they are crucial to set yourself at peace and your relationships at peace. By coming to peace with your past, it can no longer have power over you, and it can no longer sway your future, except where you let it. And that is the ultimate realisation: your past is yours, but it is not you - and thus, what you do with it now is completely up to you.

As long as we try to forget the past, it follows us and tethers to us. However there is a way to free your self from the nightmare. Step 1: Rather than trying to forget the past.Accept it. Try your best to sink in that it happened and its never gonna be washed away. You need to accept the fact that it happened to you and you need to beat in the truth that its a bad memory which is not gonna effect you present and future anymore. Step 2: Believe that its something miserable that you never want to replay again then you will find the solution and key to the way that makes you live today with your past thrown away from you

Don't look back unless you want to pick up a lesson or two. You can't live a life backwards. That is why living in the moment is the key. So often people spend too much time digging into their pasts, they end up getting trapped in a unhealthy cycle. It is unnecessary. The past is in the past. Rumination gives birth to an uneasy feeling. Look ahead and plan for the future. It may take time to let go of anger or resentment or regrets. But you need to jettison emotional baggage. Travel light and you go further and swifter.

Start by acknowledging that you need to let go. Once this hard part is over, then it’s time to release by venting and letting it go. Once you have done that, start by taking responsibility to what you are letting go of. Keep telling yourself that it’s ok to grief. Accept that it’s behind you. Now it’s time for forgiveness. Forgive yourself, forgive others don’t blame it on anyone. Once you forgive, then you can start living the now Some people find it easier to write or play sports or paint. Find whatever it is that you feel connected to and it will sure help you.

Think of life as a book. More specifically, as writing a book. When you are writing a book, sometimes your chapters will change when you least expect. Sometimes, you will have an intense desire to stare at the older chapters forever. You don't want to keep on writing the book, instead you wish to go back to a chapter. (or alternatively, you wish to burn a chapter from the book) You can't do any of these. Those chapters have already been written in ink. The best thing to do now is realize there are many empty pages that you haven't written in yet that may be even better than the last ones. If you accept that the past chapters are just that, you can pick up the pen and start writing again. When you are "writing the book" you are living your life in the present. You can look forward to the future, but the future is nothing without the present. The present will become the past, just like the chapters you are stuck on. And soon, the future will be your present. But the only way to get there is to keep on writing the book.