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Your past is your Present
By Lee Ann | September 26, 2008
In a previous post I said that your past doesn’t exist to harm you. That is true. The only reason it’s there is to be a rudder, a guidance. If you cut yourself - the skin closes quickly. If it stayed open for a long time bacteria would flood in, which would end in your eventual demise from a massive infection.
Same with a mental wound - it needs to close. Your only takeaway from a wound is what you can learn from it. Use the wounding not to punish and beat yourself up - but as a wise teacher that has taught you an important lesson. In my life I have had to forgive people who wounded me. I learned that from my wounds I gained strength as I realized that they had no power over me. When I realized that they were just events and they didn’t define me as a person. When I could truly say that I love, honor and respect myself too much to let events and circumstances define me.
Therefore your past is a present, a gift. It’s a gift to learn a lesson from. If you felt abandoned because you’re parents divorced - realize that their divorce had nothing to do with you and everything to do with their relationship. Let that feeling of abandonment go and accept the fact that you are the same good person you were before the divorce.
You are awesome. Gotta love that. 
And, if you want to attract the good stuff into your life - you gotta believe it.
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