Paradigm Shift: How to cultivate equanimity in the face of market uncertainty by Byeajee Yvan

Author:Byeajee, Yvan [Byeajee, Yvan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-07-11T18:30:00+00:00

Attachment to the past

The ability to remember past experiences is useful and important – it is the power or process of recalling to mind previously learned facts, experiences, impressions, skills and habits that allows us to navigate and make sense of the present. However, when this ability to look backwards is used for unfruitful purposes such as overthinking and worrying, it impedes on our awareness of the present moment and actually detracts our capacity to sustain growth. Every time we carry around thoughts of the past, it takes up so much space in our brain that it prevents us from living in the present. In other words, we become oblivious to the present. Minutes, hours, and days pass by as if in a dream. We might remember what happened at a particular moment, but we weren’t fully present at that very moment because our mind was elsewhere.

Can you imagine how your life would be if you could totally and immediately let go of what happened in the past? The choice is yours. Look at it decisively, feel the emotions that are brought up by the mere thought of that past. Confront that past but don’t fight it. Did you decimate your account because you couldn’t take a small loss? Did an unfortunate event occur in your personal life? Understand that there is nothing you can do anymore. You cannot change the past. Paradoxically, acknowledging your inability to change the past will empower you to extract wisdom out of those experiences and to move on. Acceptance is liberation! Just like with the “letting go of expectation” exercise I presented earlier, bring the past to seashore and kindly place it into the ocean. Watch it wash away. Once it is gone, make it an intention to be present and to focus on the now. And every time the past comes back again in your mind, do the same thing. Bring it to the shore!

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