Do You Want to Change

Do You Want to Change?
by Charles Frost

Certainly, many of us have had things happen in our lives which were neither appropriate or productive: we were abused emotionally and physiologically; we were physically battered and beaten; we were verbally abused; we were sexually abused and molested. It happened. We were there. We felt the fear, the pain, the sense of self-loathing.

And it was nothing personal. It would have happened to anybody else who had been there at that moment in time, in that place, with that relationship to those people, under that set of conditions and circumstances.

With this being so, how is it possible we have chosen to build our entire lives and self-images around such events? How is it possible we have decided to endlessly relive some thing which occurred many years ago rather than to live in the present and get on with the rest of our lives? As long as we choose to see this event, or events, as the measuring stick for our lives, we are trapped in the past and have no real chance of changing our Beliefs, or our lives, and it is all based on the Perception that Life somehow singled us out in some manner, and that whatever happened to us is who, and what, we are.

As long as we view it this way, we are right, and our lives will never, change. We will be trapped by our past, and by our Perceptions of the past, and our lives will endlessly repeat the same types of things over and over again until we choose to let go of the past and begin to live the rest of our lives based on different information.

A wonderful example of this concept is the main character in the movie, Groundhog Day. He literally was reliving the same day over and over and over again until he came to understand it was not how others treated him,  but it was how he REACTED to others which made the difference in how his life worked.

It is not so much the FACTS, or our BELIEFS, which have limited us. It has been the PERCEPTION of the FACTS which created our BELIEFS which has limited us. If we will allow ourselves to PERCEIVE ourselves, and our lives, differently, then everything else will start to change.

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