It’s Time To Let Go Of Yesterday (A Meditation For Deep Release)
Release emotions attached to your past, and gain an understanding and appreciation for the experiences that helped shape the person you are today.
“Instead of belittling the version of you that was holding themselves up in whatever way they knew how, why don’t you thank them? Because the vision of your future rests in their minds. The way of your life rests on their shoulders. You are only here today because of what they did and how they did it.” — Brianna Wiest
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- The past is impermanent: This meditation emphasizes that the past is not a fixed entity, but is instead a collection of memories that exist in your mind. The past is fluid, subjective, and may change in your mind overtime.
- Memories have different weights: A key part of this meditation delves into the psychological weight that certain memories carry. Specifically, Wiest questions why specific negative experiences may overshadow numerous positive ones.
- Be present and mindful: Throughout the meditation, Wiest highlights the importance of living in the present moment. She encourages you to shed the weight of the past and focus on your reality.
- Practice self-compassion and forgiveness: This meditation calls for self-kindness, suggesting that you should forgive your past self and appreciate the strength that you showed in previous struggles. Wiest explains that this can help you recognize your current strengths and future potentials.
- Let go and move forward: During this meditation, Wiest asks you to let go of the past so it does not define your current life. The main idea here is to consciously move away from past narratives and instead, build a future based on present opportunities and insights.
- Focus on reconstruction and renewal: In this meditation, a key takeaway is to reconstruct your life and move away from past regrets. Instead, Wiest encourages you towards a future that reflects your aspirations.
Episode Quotes
The past that you believe is currently holding you back is nothing but a memory. It’s an image that lives in your mind and in your mind alone.
Brianna Wiest
Don’t come home every single day to a museum of the mistakes you made and the people you were and all that could have been.
Brianna Wiest
The past is gone. All that exists is this moment.
Brianna Wiest
Because you are often not a novel, you are a collection of essays, a collection of stories, a collection of the people that you have become and unbecome and will become then.
Brianna Wiest
What happened was real, and it is now also over. The past is gone and when we try to resurrect pieces of it without its full context, we torture ourselves for no reason.
Brianna Wiest
The way we reconcile the past is by reconciling the people we are, today.
Brianna Wiest
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