Last month we talked about healing the past. If you didn’t see that article, you’ll find it here.
We received some interesting and insightful comments about the article. So this month Chief Joseph and I are responding to those comments.
Following are excerpts from the comments and then our responses.
CommenT
From 30 years of experience in this field and also seeing a few similar comments, I'd have to say the view is rather narrow. The past can only be painful if you view it that way in the present. It is true that the power is in the present, so from a place of power in the present, much healing can be done from any area of our 'past'.
Our response
We agree with this. Except the part about the narrow view. ;)
Comment
. . . why is it that the past must always be filled with pain?
Our response
We did not say, in our first article, “the past must always be filled with pain.” Since that article was about healing, all we were saying was re-living past pain is not an effective path to healing. If you can acknowledge you have experienced pain in your past and then simply intend to be healed, you will be. You do not need to re-live the pain to heal your life. That was our point.
Comment
Why not also look at the positives and creative adventures we have created in that version of the present?
Our response
Again, we do not disagree with this. That is a good thing to do, and we often advise people to do it. However, we again remind the person making the comments the article’s focus was healing, and one of the least effective ways to heal is, in our view, re-living past pain.
One of the most effective ways of healing is to do just what the person making the comments is suggesting -- “look at the positives and creative adventures . . .”
We have often advocated to people, if they want to use “past life therapy,” to simply remember all the good, joyful experiences. If they immerse themselves in that vibration in this present moment, it is far more healing than remembering past pain, thereby rekindling all that negativity.
