Dr. Paul Newton 2012

If You Don’t Like Your Past, Just Change How You Remember It!

If several people witness the same situation and are later asked to recount it, how similar will their stories be?  While there may be some similarities in who was there and perhaps the sequence of events that took place, we will probably have as many different stories as we have people telling them.  Each person will place importance on different aspects of the situation while deeming other aspects irrelevant.  Some aspects may not even be remembered and people will actually argue as to whether certain things took place or not.  Everyone remembers things selectively!

When people talk about their past, they usually recount a series of events and turning points that brought them to where they are today.  More often than not, there are many key factors in their past and the way they recount it that justify who they are and why they are that way.  There are two things that often happen.  The traumatic events and failures lead them to conclusions about who they cannot be and what they cannot do; and the successes and victories lead them to conclusions about who they can be and what they can do.

While successes and traumas tend to be some of the most formative factors in our development of a sense of self, we don’t always see that people who have enjoyed many successes and few traumas have a strong sense of self, or that people experiencing the reverse have a weak one.  In fact, some of the most powerful and successful people in the world came from some very traumatic pasts.  When asked how they view their pasts, these people will often say that some terrible things they experienced in their lives were the best things that ever happened to them.  They will also remember and place great importance on certain details that many of us would think were irrelevant.  The difference in the way they remember their past allowed them to use their present to create amazing futures.

Your history, and more particularly the way you recall and describe your past, is just a story you tell.  It is a selective remembering of the events and circumstances in your life with varying degrees of importance and charge placed on arbitrary details for effect.  We take this story and we make it our own inner law when, in fact, it really is simply something we made up.  Many people who grew up without many hardships will build a story of misery to support the sad life they are living.  They do this by placing emphasis and charge on all the unpleasant events and circumstances they lived while blowing off or forgetting all the pleasant events.  Indeed, we all do this to some degree.

The great thing is that it is never too late to change how you remember things.  In fact, most people who have major breakthroughs in their lives do so by repositioning who they are in the present by changing the meaning of their past.  They actually rewrite their history.  This has a huge and global effect on who they are, what they feel they can accomplish and how they fit into the world.  The whole meaning of their lives changes.  This can all happen when we tune into the consciousness of the First Ray—Remembering.

The First Ray of Consciousness is a very powerful ray and it is energetically supported by the Universal Spirit Energetic Intelligence.  The ultimate remembering is the knowing that we came from the divine, and that before we became an individual soul in a separate body, we were once the whole universe.  When we remember that this is in fact who and what we are, and our physiology resonates with this, our whole existence changes.  The events and circumstances that we thought were so important become insignificant in comparison.

If you are going to make a story about yourself law by selectively remembering your past and adding charge and emphasis to arbitrary details, why not rearrange things and emphasize the ones that make you a happy success?  If remembering that you came from and still are divinely connected to everyone and everything that is does not make you feel powerful, then at least make up a story that makes you happy.  If you don’t like your past, just change how you remember it!