Many of your decisions may be based upon the fear of future pain.
Worry, anxiety, pain and fear is usually based on past events.
As they are left unresolved they build a home inside of you and seek to influence your future decisions.
THIS CAN BE A VICIOUS CYCLE.
The future soon becomes the past and as you base your decisions on what has happened in the past, you fear what will happen in the future based on your experiences from the past.
The good news is there is a way off this merry-go-round!
If you’re tired and ready for some change.
If you’re truly ready, a few things have to happen.
Take a long, honest look at yourself.
The good, the bad and the ugly areas of your life.
Be willing to Give up all of the images of who you believe your are.
Don’t leave any stone unturned.
As you get down to the very core of this matter you will discover the culprit of all your misfortunes.
Let a man examine himself, before he drinks of this cup.
It is surely bitter!
Peace is in the present.
Father has surely declared that He is Omnipresent, (always present).
If you spend most of your life either in the past or in fear of the future, you fail to experience the peace promised to you.
Father is always in the NOW.
Overcoming The Pain of the Past
Give up the belief in what you have imagined yourself to be because it is ego-driven.
Take the path that few will follow.
Be assured you are not alone.
It is easy to look outside of yourself and critique a person or a situation and pass judgment without delay.
Our journey within should accompany the same critical observations.
Salvation from the pain of the past is within, which is why inward examination is required.
It is the way back to your true self.
The word give up is the only way I can describe it.
You give up the persona you have created.
Everything you think you are and all you imagined yourself to be.
Living from a space of defenselessness.
Imagine a chalk board filled with words and there is no space to add any other words to the board unless some erasing is done.
Overcome Future Pain
Here is an excerpt from the Book that helped me “Overcome the Vicious Cycle of Future Pain.
It reads, Simply do this: Be still, and lay aside all thoughts of what you are and what God is; all concepts you have learned about the world; all images you hold about yourself.
Empty your mind of everything it thinks is either true or false, or good or bad, of every thought it judges worthy, and all the ideas of which it is ashamed. Hold onto nothing.
Do not bring with you one thought the past has taught, nor one belief you ever learned before from anything.
Forget this world and come with wholly empty hands unto your God. Is it not He Who knows the way to you? You need not know the way to Him.
Your part is simply to allow all obstacles that you have interposed between the Son (Daughter) and God the Father to be quietly removed forever.
God will do His part in joyful and immediate response. Ask and receive.
But do not make demands, nor point the road to God by which He should appear to you.
The way to reach Him is merely to let Him be.
For in that way is your reality proclaimed as well.
P.S. Peace Be With You and Forever Forgive.