Letting Go of the Past

This may sound a bit nauseating, so please skip the next paragraph if you don’t like thinking about pimples and/or have a weak stomach. This is about a dream…


Last week I had this recurring dream about popping pimples (I remember that one was on my upper lip) and that when I did so, in addition to the usual gush of fluids, there was a long stream of black stuff coming out. So, I turned to a dream dictionary to find out what this means.


Well, the consensus is that I have some negative emotional baggage that I need to release, because if I don’t, these emotions are going to erupt, I presume in an unhealthy way. So what is going on inside of me that needs to be released? What am I holding on to that should be let go?


I, like many other people, have issues from my past that probably haven’t been properly addressed; there may be some people I need to forgive, some pains I need to learn how to heal. I often reminisce about the past and think of many experiences as having been the best in my life, and others as the worse. So what steps need to be taken to move out of the past and into the present? How do we let go of stuff we’ve held onto for so long that we believe it defines us?


As you see from my blog profile, I like self-help books. I also like self-help on the Internet. I googled “How to Let Go of Your Past” and found some interesting results. I hope some of these will be helpful to others. I’ll keep you posted on my journey to uncover what’s locked inside and will share methodology I may use to keep letting go.


If you have tried to let go of some things and succeeded, please consider sharing how you did it by posting a comment. Are you stuck in a rut too? Consider sharing what steps you will take to move through to the other side.

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Six Steps to Letting Go of Your Past

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