How to Let Go of Past Hurts

Letting go of past hurts is not easy. Hurt has to run its course - so letting go too soon just won't work. Time is, as they say, a great healer. However some pain just lingers and eats away at people. Here are a few tips that may help:

Steps

1. Use affirmations every day. Say I am happy to let the pain of the past go right now. Say this as many times as you can. Sing it and write it too.
2. Be aware that past is gone and it cannot come back...not in this life anyway. So try a ritual. Write about what happened to you, and feel the pain as you do. Then tear what you wrote into tiny pieces. Then, using a safe container (and with an adult if young) burn the pieces. As they burn say out loud - be gone pain from the past.

 3. Remember that emotional pain is a perception. Try to change it in some way by creating a philosophy for yourself about why pain occurs and what we learn from it. Take what good may have come from the past and hold onto it

4. When you begin to think about what happened, force those thoughts away and create a nice image to think about - like a pretty flower, or a person you care about. Practice this often. In the end your mind will re-learn.

5. Always know that everyone is good enough and that you deserve to be happy. Say every night before sleep. I am good enough and I deserve to feel happy