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Shaking off our past mistakes
“Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.”
- Friedrich Nietzsche
How often do you relive past mistakes in your mind? Maybe you did or said some things which you may regret and even made amends for, but you somehow seem to keep reliving certain memories on the stage in your brain. It’s like this blooper reel that will not stop reminding us of how we screwed up, even if it was something unintentional or inconsequential. If we could, we would pay a memory amnesia fee to erase those memories so we can simply move on. If this does not happen to you, lucky you!
For those of us forced to relive those past memories in our minds, it can be annoying, angst-ridden and a big waste of time and energy. Since there is no fee we can pay or pill we can take, what can we do to rid those memories for good? From my experience, I have learned there is not much we can do but simply own it. Hopefully we learned something from it. We can acknowledge that it happened and get back to focusing on the present moment where life is happening in real-time. This is much easier said than done, but I have found some tricks that work for me.
The first thing I do is acknowledge it. I can’t run or hide from it since it lives in my mind. Attempting to ignore it doesn’t work for me. Then I remind myself that I have…
