The past lives on only in your thoughts. It is dead, but you’re not . You’ll grow in confidence only if you are willing to let go of the past, learn from it, and move on. No matter what has gone before, your future, and how you feel about it, will be a direct result of what you do from now on. It is being shaped right now, moment by moment, as the consequences of your desires, thoughts, dreams, actions and words begin to crystallise.The past only continues to affect you if you allow it. You may not be able to forget what has gone before, but you can stop dwelling on it. “You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinkingabout yesterday all the time. Charles F. Kettering ”
‘how Dare He?’
Eric was 11 years old when the headmaster called him up to the front of the school and announced in front of everyone, ‘Here is a worthless, stupid boy who will never make anything of himself’. The incident had dogged him for years. When I met him, he was 47 years old.
Under hypnosis he recalled the original incident. Tears streamed down his face. He then re-enacted the scene, but this time told the head very forcefully, ‘Oh no I’m not! You’re out of order. Apologise!’ He imagined the headmaster on his knees in front of him, grovelling.
Now he smiles at the memory. ‘The stupid man’, he says. ‘How dare he speak to me, or any other young person, like that?’