How can your past help you?

There is a famous saying that goes:

“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift, that is why we call it present.”

The past contains a great package. Whether it is pain or happiness. no one will look back and find that they have not experienced or felt anything on this earth.

There are two main ways to look at our past

One is to think we are victims of our past. Of course, there are people who had a terrible past and they really experienced suffering and were victims of difficult things. But from that though place, you can create the most beautiful blossom. remember, the value of a plant that bloomed from the cracks of the concrete is higher than the value of a plant that bloomed in laboratory conditions. 

Once upon a time, we too sinned by looking at our past as victims. Until we realized that there are people who look at their past in a different, stronger, more beautiful way, in a way that helps them grasp a significant advantage over everyone else.

The second way to look at our past is to look at what we went through from a third party perspective. As if, what we had been through so far in life, was not really our lives. What it does is, disconnect us emotionally from what we have been through. Disconnect from the victim’s feelings and connect to the feelings of empathy towards who we were and realize that the person who went through all that, is a really strong person and can conquer every challenge they will set their mind to. Once we know how to disconnect and separate these feelings, we learn to transcend ourselves and reach a new level in life. 

Surely you are thinking to yourself, how do you reach a new level

So once you realize that what we have been through so far may have been difficult, but it is behind us, the past becomes our strength. And that is our advantage in the world. Did you go through a difficult breakup that broke your heart? Now you know you can survive it. And if that happens to you again, you will have more tools to deal with it. Have you dealt with depression? You now know that you can go through difficult times as well and that eventually feelings pass and are replaced by other feelings and experiences.

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The next time you encounter difficult situations, you will know that it got nothing on you, and you can get through it. And when you approach a problem with that kind of confidence, the problem that once seemed big, dwarfs.

Everyone has their own path in life. No matter what you have been through so far, and what difficulties you have faced. You got it! Every difficulty is a certificate to your future ‘self’, which says you are strong and can go through anything!

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