As I hold on to it, my creativity is reduced and I do everything with a limited perspective, not letting myself grow and shape up a glorious present and future. There are some people whose goal is to achieve something so great in their lives so as to ensure they will gain recognition and respect by others in time to come.

But shedding off this type of attachment is not easy and first requires the realization that this attachment is incorrect and damaging. The next step is sitting in silence and becoming aware of how you lose your identity in a story of past thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitudes and actions and then disassociating or detaching yourself from that story.

You do not need to suppress or deny or fight with this story; otherwise its memory gets stronger and more overpowering. You just need to simply see and realize deeply that your past is just a record of a particular set of actions, which you committed at a particular point of time, it is a series of images of previous events that you witnessed and that you were a part of, all of which have left a record in your memory, and in the memories of others, but they are not what you are.

This type of practice of disassociation with spiritual understanding fades the excessive memory of the story in your consciousness over a short period of time and these actions then cease to influence you in any way in the present. Here we are talking about an influence, which we have for long deceived ourselves into believing to be a positive one, but which in reality is not.

Any of the habits good or bad have been with us for so long that we feel it to be a part of our personality. Our present character and individuality are not only due to our current habits, built also combined practices of previous lifetimes. Each such practice  have left their mark  on our consciousness.

These traits comes out to be so natural and when someone points out our particular trait to be erroneous  seems incorrect. Although if it did feel right for a moment, we have become so attached to our old behavioral habitual  emotions that we really don’t want to change. It may even be the case that we have become so weak that we need help to change. It seems much easier to stay the way we are.

As we begin to spend time with ourselves by developing our spiritual practice, our views on the above subject may vary. Visualize yourself having a conversation with your own self  Allow yourself to be peaceful by nature, full of love and joy by nature, naturally content by nature, wherever you are and in whatever you do.

After a while, you won’t need to give yourself permission and you will find these states of being are there within you quite naturally at every moment. They are our original and eternal nature. Everything else is acquired or learned. In so many ways introduction to spirituality, like many other approaches to inner awakening, is as much about unlearning the already acquired beliefs as it is about learning new beliefs.