RE-THINK MEMORY
It is often considered a good thing, even a sign of good health and lack of dementia haha, for people to keep their memory. But what if that “good memory” is operating to keep you trapped in patterns, to keep you locked into the past, to prevent you from enjoying the present moment?
This is definitely worth considering with what we know about consciousness, and how patterned behaviors prevent people from reaching their potential, and throwing off unwanted behavior pattern. Here are some thoughts on “memory modification:”
1. Think about what memory means to you. For most people it is considered great to be able to remember everything, and they wish they could. But when you are so focused on past events, you tend to bring those events (and that mindset) into the present moment and the immediate future. This can cause problems, because you don’t really “see” and “feel” the present, except through the past.
2. Limit your reference to the past to events within the last two weeks. This allows you to reference the past, but only up to a designated limit. It gets you more firmly rooted in the present, which is the only thing that really counts. If you don’t like the two week time frame, adjust it to your taste.
3. Revise the painful portions of your memory. I was first introduced to this concept through Neville Goddard, a highly evolved spiritualist (now dead). He believed that unless you revise the traumatic events of your past in your mind, and re-create them as they should have been, those events will continue to haunt you. He dubbed this the “pruning sheers of revision.” His approach may be spot on, because if the past does not fully dissolve, it exists somewhere (in the ether or clouds, haha), and is accessible, so it is not really dead. His idea to revise the painful parts of memory is brilliant, because if you do so, you bring those revised (and less painful thoughts) into your being now.
4. Start to view time as limitless, rather than limited. Memory assumes a whole different perspective when you change your view on time. The collective consciousness views time as limited, hence the need to rush through so many things. But ponder that assumption: what if time was truly limitless and the idea of sequential time was just a man made construct; how would that affect your need to reference the past?
5. Love the present and what it offers. Easy to say with so many distractions, and with people and events urging us to get stuck in the past, or worry about the future. But when you really think about it, what else do we have but the present moment?
