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Move Past Your Past: A Process For Freeing Your Life
By Alice Parker

Alice Parker believes there are only two emotions, Love and Fear. She has written a book to help us deal with them. Here is an excerpt from her book, Move Past Your Past, A Process For Freeing Your Life. Contact her at apinsf@hotmail.com for more information or to purchase her book.

The whole letting go – Moving Past Your Past – is a step process, but one that is more linear than bottom to top. In other words, it is as if we progress in a continuum, adding and deleting as we learn what works or doesn't, as time goes by. The first major step is dissolving or replacing of old belief systems, or negative conditioned -responses. It usually takes either a trauma to bring it to the forefront of the brain, or simply getting tired of repeated negative results.

Emotionally, you can usually only work on one step at a time, but sometimes one is directly connected to another. Once this happens, your awareness and acknowledgment needs to examine the old belief/conditioned-response – Where did it come from? Why it doesn't work anymore? Then a decision has to be made as to how to replace it, and with what. Sometimes simply going for the opposite response works, at least for a while. Like most things subconscious, or in the brain, it abhors a vacuum and you don't want another negative thought put in there, so it may be time for something positive.

Since some of your negative beliefs may have been with you for longer than you can remember, they are usually reviewed gingerly or one at a time, as the revelations they bring up can be painful, embarrassing, or simply so scary that you still follow them. As you let go of one, there will also be some opening up of other areas of yourself and you begin to feel pretty good and may be even confident to look at more misconceptions.

There will be those that as we examine them we see the hurt that created them, or the hurt we have brought on others by perpetuating them on those around us. This may slow the release process down, or even stop it for a while, as pain is no fun. Many people – especially those with the same beliefs – will tell you that leaving old sores in the Past is best, and not to open Pandora's Box.

But there was something freeing and positive once you got over the last few revelations, and eventually you may be ready to continue the process. For some it may take years and others will never be able to let go of all of their past, maybe just leave it for another lifetime. They may rationalize or justify as they have learned and grown enough for this one. Others can't wait to have more positive love and freedom come into their lives, to start living a full and joyous life.