Moving On

 

Are there events in your past that affect your life right now?  I know too much about this subject.  I lost somebody very close to me years ago.  He left the human experience and made his transformation by choice.  I hardly moved on from it.  It wasn't until the recent couple of years that I learned to move on.

 

This practice of moving on is the art of forgiveness and this is what I learned; forgiveness is giving up hope for a better past.  It's about being thankful that you survived an uncomfortable or a horrible experience.  It's not necessarily about being thankful that you experienced it, yet some situations are a learning experience.  Forgiveness is a very easy concept, but a difficult practice. 

 

You have to think of a previous experience as something that happened in the past and in the past only.  You survived that experience and you're living in the future of that experience.  You're here living RIGHT NOW.  When a thought comes up of that past experience just remember that it's JUST A THOUGHT.  Do not become emotionally attached to it.  Attachment is ego.  Go from mind-full to mindful (which is complete awareness of the present moment). 

 

When you forgive somebody, it doesn't mean that you accept what that person did as something right or you now want a better relationship with that person (although in some situations you might choose to).  What it means is that you have moved on, are not letting the thought of that situation affect you and living in the now.

 

I had to learn to forgive him.  It took years to figure out how, but once I understood this true concept of forgiveness, I became liberated.  I forgive all people and experiences that were uncomfortable and/or horrible, moved on, and living in the beautiful present moment.

 

Namaste