It’s time to let go of your negative past and begin enjoying life again.

Too often we hang on to those bad memories, bad relationships, that resentment, anger and any negative experience you’re holding on to needs to be released,
discarded, dumped into the trash along with yesterday’s garbage.

Thinking about those negative events really cripples you. It destroys any chance for success and happiness

Thinking about them brings up pain, anger, makes you feel sad or gets you depressed.

With those feelings consuming you there’s just no way you can be happy and you destroy any chance of great success because you’re living in the past.
I know it’s easy to say: “Just let go – move forward, forget about it, just let go.”

But that’s easier said than done.

Today I show you how you can really let go of unwanted events, emotions and situations, passed or present that are holding you back… you’ll start living the life you want, enjoying
greater happiness and begin moving forward.

When you hold on to negative experiences you actually block our ability to move forward.

If you’re hanging on to a negative or unpleasant experience then you’re naturally thinking about it regularly. It may consume your mind for most of the day.
It may be your only focus and it gets you down everyday.

When that happens you prevent yourself from moving forward and healing.

I’m not talking about memories we all have memories.
But how many memories do you recall regularly?
How many pleasant memories do you recall everyday?

Chances are you’re like most people and you have a number of unpleasant experiences that you’re holding on to, and that prevents you from moving forward.

These negative experiences can be a traumatic event that took place during your childhood or a fight you had with a friend which resulted in a grudge that you carry and because of that grudge
you no longer speak to each other.

The more you carry the worse life gets, it’s that simple.

You’re carrying useless baggage that’s really slowing you down.

Think of it this way; you’re on a hiking trip and along the way you keep picking up heavy objects, things that really don’t serve you but you want to hang on to.

After a while these objects begin to weigh on you, they slow you down and unless you get rid of them you’ll never get to where you want to go.

You can begin to let go by simply getting your mind to focus on something different.
Think of positive events.
Think of positive experiences.
Think about how you want to improve your life and start taking steps to make the changes.

Doing this pushes your mind in a new direction and gives your subconscious mind a new set of instructions.

You basically tell yourself and your subconscious mind that you’re moving on and ready for more positive situations in life. Your subconscious then helps you by directing you
to the people and situations that will allow you to move forward and enjoy life. Start letting go today.

It’s not about saying: I let go of the pain from my fight with —- and move on.

That will help but if you really want to start moving on then you have to get your mind to focus on new things and in the process you automatically let go of the negative events and situations that
have been slowing you down.

When you focus on more positive things and focus on what you want you begin shifting that energy and start attracting positive situations to help you create the life you want.

The next step is to create a new action plan.
Let’s face it the past is over so what’s next?
Where do you want to go now?
How do you plan to get there?

You may not have the answers to all these questions, but merely thinking about the options and the future forces your mind to go in a new direction.

When you do this you automatically let go of unwanted feelings and emotions.

Start focusing on what you want to happen.
Let go of the past and negative situations by getting your mind to focus on different things.
Direct your subconscious mind to help you let go by giving it new instructions. Start letting go today

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