HOW DOES YOUR PAST...
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Issue 88 2020
How Does Your Past Affect You? Keep on doing what you're doing and you'll keep on getting what you're getting! Yet how often does that realisation surprise us? Granted, there are certain things we cannot change. How many of us fully appreciate the impact our personal history has on us, the accident of our birth, bringing with it riches or poverty, class, ethnicity, gender? This often impacts on our choice of education, influencing any opportunities that may or may not come our way. Those early experiences shape our opinions, unconscious prejudices, expectations, values and the direction our lives subsequently take. Add into the mix our personality and characteristics. These too colour our choices and decisions, whether we take a right or left turn when we reach a crossroads. Some of
these choices we make are life-changing; whether to continue with further education, travel, settle with a family, go into business. Habits and patterns can become entrenched, with good habits keeping us disciplined, moral and on track. Bad habits rarely serve us well, as in guilt, fear, obligation, money, tradition, a manipulative relationship. Sometimes the realisation dawns on us and it's time to address the role of negative patterns in our life. Let's reflect on how our past affects us; We never forget a thing. We may not be consciously aware of some memories but everything that happens to us stays in our unconscious minds and is triggered whenever similar events occur. Think how a smell, taste, photograph can 'take us right back' and evoke really clear images. Both good and bad from the past can filter through and affect us. PAGE
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