No wonders why people get pissed off at repeated haranguing by the so-called wise well-wishers who keep their sermon of ‘let go past’ endlessly on. If a relationship hurts let go the relationship. If any emotion holds you back let go the emotion. But if you ask them how, they don’t have any answer. So is letting go that easy ? Not at all. Holding on to some experience , person or emotion from the past is always from the subconscious domain of the mind which our conscious mind is not even aware of most of the times. So when someone exhorts us to unlatch ourselves of the past memories which are parasitic to our existence it simply seems to be too moralizing to be executed. Even if we want to move on in our physical journey the emotional reins from the past block our energies and we feel stuck between our past and present. The most pertinent question is how to remain in present when either past haunts us or future scares us. This is how even I used to think before I took up my career as Healer.

Since I have started practising Serenity Surrender Healing , I remain in constant awareness of my subtle emotions and try to understand myself more through others. So the first question is what keeps us anchored to our past? There are two accounts on which we get hooked onto to our past. There are memories of exclusively pleasant moments which are missing in our current life as per our perception. There is a strong hidden belief underneath that such moments can never come again in our lives. The much deeper belief is that we are unworthy of such pleasant moments. Thus, such deeper negative beliefs bind us to the extent that our attention never goes to so many pleasant happenings in our lives as we are preoccupied with the want of a specific moment wherein lies our happiness according to us.

When we vibrate negative beliefs to the Universe such as ‘I can never be happy as I was or I am unworthy of happiness’, we can never experience something other than this as Universe echoes what is given to it.
Now let us take another occasion where we don’t dissociate with the past. It could be some traumatic or unpleasant experience say heartbreak, deception, rejection, abuse, violence etc. Such experiences get deeply ingrained in our subconscious energies and howsoever we try to come out of it consciously we fail to do so. This is how these experiences create blocks in our growth and we don’t understand it. In such cases we prefer to hold onto it due to various reasons.
First, may be, there is a hidden fear of experiencing it again which stops one from new experiences shutting the doors of growth through non acceptance of it in present. So a constant fear of experiencing the same in future distracts one from the present which might be rather very pleasant.
Second , there might be chances of one enjoying the stance of victim. Sometimes by remaining in the past we get the attention of people as a victim. So self glorification through past also keeps us there. Sometimes it is for self castigation if there is a deep- rooted guilt for the action from the past.
Thus for letting go past we must introspect in which way it is serving us. We must heal our need to remain in past then only we will break it loose . The bygone has already served us what it had to. Clinging onto it will only give us misery of mental immobility to the point of present moment which our physical body and conscious energy is experiencing. Past is extinct and future never exists. Current moment is the only reality. Not letting go what has already taken place or fearing what may take place will make you lose what is taking place giving rise to deposition of another layer of negative emotion that is Regret in your energies and the time may seem slipping off your hands.