You are a product of Your Past
Until You are not
We humans are quite programmable. For many of us, perhaps the majority of us, we are easily programmed by others.
But let’s just keep this conversation about You. You. Are you “programming” yourself? Are you able to “program” yourself? Perhaps we should get clear about this idea of “programming.”
I have shared before how, many years ago, I watched a documentary on Lottery Winners. This show tracked 10 lottery winners over the course of many years. What I found very interesting is that 9 out of the 10 winners had gone back to their previous financial status. Except, by winning the lottery, their lives were devastated. Once they acquired a large sum of money, many of their main relationships fell apart, as money became a core element to how others saw them. In general, friends, family members and such all shifted their focus on money. Some of the winners were expected to share their winnings. And how much they “shared” became in question. After some time, the money was gone, and the relationships had been ruined. The “winners” were worse off than before they had “won,” because their core relationships had fallen apart.
Why do I bring this story up? To illustrate the karmic momentum our past can have in our life. Until it doesn’t. When 9 out of 10 winners had returned to their previous financial status, that showed their own karmic momentum. They couldn’t embody their new financial status. When we go to make changes in our own life, we must embody that which we desire in order to be able to sustain it in our lives.
To heal our relationship with our past (programming) we need to gain mastery over ourselves. Much of our programming comes under two aspects of ourselves. Our mental and our emotional demeanor. And those two, the mental and emotional, aspects of ourselves hold the key to breaking ourselves free from our past.
In the mental arena, we can get stuck in several ways. Life in the fast brain is one. Where our thinker is stuck in the fast lane of our minds. Where we are constantly seeking the next distraction(s). Avoiding slowing down ourselves enough to feel ourselves. For many, just the notion of slowing ourselves down and reconnecting to our feelings sounds a bit edgy.
Yet, with the 2020 event, many were forced to slow themselves down. Work from home. Many, if not all, social in-person events were cancelled. When we became isolated during that period, the need for psychiatric help skyrocketed. Many people, perhaps for the first time in their lives, were forced to be more present with themselves and they didn’t really like how that felt. It had been an avoidance behavior for them to just keep themselves distracted from their own feelings. This avoiding how we feel can keep us managing our lives to eliminate anything that might allow us to actually feel. The feelings they were avoiding, were the feelings from their past. They had no real experience of genuinely feeling their feelings. Let alone wanting to get reconnected with their feelings. In that way, by avoiding any choices that might reconnect them with themselves, they were also avoiding different outcomes as well. That’s karma in and of itself.
The emotional arena, as you can see from the mental conversation, often has us avoiding our emotions as well. Or, perhaps, we are not avoiding our emotions but rather, festering in our emotions. Have you ever met someone who is a hot mess emotionally? Where every emotion they feel is blown out of perspective and they are in a constant state of emotional drama? Again, these types of behaviors all carry a strong karmic momentum to themselves.
Our mental and emotional skills can be grown and strengthened. We can shift our karmic momentum from our past. Not by avoiding our past. But by healing our past. Healing our relationship with our past habits of behavior. To make these changes requires practice. Mental and emotional habits can run your life, even outside of what you desire. Just like those folks who had won the lottery, and yet the mental and emotional momentum of their past could not sustain a new paradigm. Just to practice mental and emotional skills will change your life by itself. Until you are conscious about your mental and emotional skill levels, there is little chance of your making lasting changes in your life.
The past has no bias of its own. This present moment, this now, has no bias of its own either. All the biases currently present in your life come from you alone. Get a grip on who you really are, and your future will open itself up to your intentions.
Love You
Les
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