Let go of the past, but keep the lessons - LEONA RED

Let go of the past, but keep the lessons - LEONA RED http://www.footwatching.com Stop Losing Yourself into the Past If we can't change the past, why do we continue to live it? According to neuroscience, the brain handles negative and positive information differently. Negative experiences require more thinking and, thus, are processed more thoroughly. This causes our brains to become better at remembering adverse events. Reliving sad memories makes us feel like a hamster in the wheel — no matter how hard we try, we can't move forward. You can't change how your brain works. But you can train yourself to get off of the hamster wheel. That requires cutting the emotional attachment we have with the past, especially negative experiences. We usually have a hard time accepting that someone hurt us. Recognizing an unhappy ending makes us feel weak and embarrassed. Eckhart Tolle -the most popular spiritual author in the United States, according to the New York Times- once said, "There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. You can acknowledge and learn from the mistakes you made and then move on. It's called forgiving yourself." You get the point. To move on, you have to reframe your relationship with the past.