We often say time heals and that’s right, but for those who actually feel like it's not healing their own past read on.
According to theoretical physicist Carlo Rovelli, time is an illusion: our naive perception of its flow doesn’t correspond to physical reality. He posits that reality is just a complex network of events onto which we project sequences of past, present, and future.
The present moment is the only phenomenon(observable fact) that exist, what we observe as the past and future are nothing but illusions we created ourselves. Another example of a similar illusion we created is video.
Video is actually a series of moving pictures. The number of still pictures per unit of time of a video is called frame rate. You can easily convert still image files to a video by adding transition effects, but that’s not what I want to talk about in this post, but if you want more examples on other similar illusions you can leave a response below and I will dedicate a post to it.
So now that we know that the present is the only time that exists, you should see the reason why telling yourself “it’s in the past, let it go” doesn’t quite work well. How do I know that the past doesn’t exist and everything is happening in the present? I will answer the question quite well, take your time to observe the experience that you are emotionally attached to.
Emotional attachment means lack of freedom because you tie yourself emotionally to incidents, possession, habits, and beliefs. After your observation, you will find out that the same feeling you felt during the event is the same feeling you are feeling right now, and if it weren’t for that feeling, you wouldn’t be reading this article, neither will anyone else.
To be free from this attachment, you must understand that you can’t run away from your emotions just as you can’t run away from a headache, to get rid of it you have to face it consciously and presently, if it was somebody, you hurt. You regret it but can’t undo it most times the only way to get rid of the guilt is to let go of your pride and apologize because the emotion we feel is a guidance system, if you only clear the ego you will know what it’s trying to say to you.
Whatever the experience may be to let go, you have to understand that everything is happening in the present, then accept the emotion, and most times, after the acceptance, you will know what to do next. However, even if you still don’t know what to do, if it has anything to do with someone else talk to them about it, if they are no more accept the emotion and ask the holy spirit for forgiveness, the person you offended is not his body but the inhabitant of the body. That inhabitant lives forever, so regardless of whether the body is dead or alive, it doesn’t matter.
I acknowledged my [mistakes] to You…and You forgave [them]. — Psalm 32:5
Be free from every attachment today; stop the running from your emotions, thinking that time will heal it because that’s ignorance. The more you hold onto negative emotions, the more it weighs and drains your energy, now that energy can be channeled into something more positive and productive. Peace😊
