Healing the Past Through Today’s Choices

As I look back over my life, I look back over the choices and decisions that I have made. Within the book of my life, there are chapters in which I made wonderful decisions, wonderful choices, which brought great happiness. Both to me and to others, and I cherish those moments and memories in my heart. But I also see that perhaps there were some decisions, some choices I made which were not the best, and perhaps they left some feeling of regret or bitterness in my heart.

Having come to this point in my life, I can have a broader view of the full picture of my life, and I realize there are times when perhaps I could have done better. I could have made kinder choices. Time, of course, flows in only one direction. However, time is still here with me now. Time continues to offer me new opportunities every day. Even to help to heal and improve my feeling about the past.

I choose to find lessons even in the wrong decisions I may have made. I identify and I think about those lessons, and I choose even to share my learning with others. The present moment is the only moment that we all have And so let me choose to make this present moment positive, productive, and uplifting.

Let me choose to perhaps get in touch with those with whom there may be some discord or tension in relationship. Let me express my thoughts and feelings, my kindness, perhaps sometimes sharing or asking for forgiveness to heal any relationship.

I know very deeply that when my thoughts and my words come from that authentic and spiritual part of myself then success and well-being automatically follow. If I feel I have made choices which hurt someone, I am ready to apologize, to learn lessons, and offer to do what I can to help to heal the past.

I am not stuck in my past, but I have learned lessons from the past, and I continue to make my present the best it can be. Continue to use my energy, my thoughts, my time, my resources to help others, to help to uplift them, and to help to encourage them so they too can be the best of themselves. And make the best decisions that are possible for them in their own lives.

By making these positive and productive choices in the present moment, I am the master of my life. And these acts of humility will also encourage others to learn to handle their own choices, their own decisions, with dignity, with love, and with kindness.