It's interesting what comes up when you 'put yourself out there' isn't it? A while ago, I decided to 'follow my bliss' and create a lovely holiday video, which I put onto 'Youtube' (see the 'Living More Positively' post) and while I was checking to see how many people had been looking at it recently, I came across a music video put on there by a friend of mine from way back (early 70's I think) that I haven't seen or heard of for ages.

Just watching his video took me back years. I was a whole different person then with a completely different way of life, with different friends and different interests. It was very tempting to see what else I could find and I spent most of the morning looking at old videos and seeing people I haven't seen in years. It was lovely to go back and immerse myself in those days for a while. Like looking at old photographs and remembering when they were taken and what we were doing at the time.

But at the same time, it was also a reminder to me of just how far I have come since those days. At that time, I wouldn't have said 'boo' to a goose, and now I stand and give talks and presentations to roomfuls of strangers.

And yes, I got in touch, and found that my friend had a page on Myspace. I'd never been on Myspace before, now I have a whole page of my own, which is great. (Link on the left if you want to see.) This now brings more people to my Site and to the Forum and Blog. Brilliant! And all from 'following my bliss' and doing something I enjoyed.

However, it occurred to me while I was doing this, that, although it's nice to look back and see how far we've come, it's never a good idea to dwell on the past. Even if we could go back, things wouldn't be the same. We wouldn't be the same would we? And if we waste our time yearning to go back to the 'old days', we're missing out on the wonderful things that can be happening in the present. The place we really need to be is in the now, because as Louise Hay would say "The point of power is in the present moment." Which means that everything that our future holds for us, is determined by what we do and say right now. We cannot rewrite the past, nor undo what has been done. Yet the future is ours to create, beginning right now.

I'm up for it… Are you?

Dwelling on the past. Yvonne how do you progress if you do not face the bad things in the past that spoil your quality of present life? because of what it has made you. I think facing it and hopefully getting what I call an inner realization brings you freedom. A hug Wendy

Yes, you're absolutely right Wendy. In my experience, we can't shut things off and hope they'll go away. They don't. The way I got round this personally, is to look at the negative events in my past as if they were happening to another person. That way I could be objective about what was going on. If I can see a reason for things happening to me, or for people behaving towards me as they did, then I can look at things with the 'light of understanding' put it behind me for good. After all we can't go back, however much we'd like to (or not). The future hasn't arrived yet. So the only time that really matters is right now and what we do with it.