Many people believe that our past affects us, sometimes negatively and sometimes positively. In mental health counseling and the recovery community the idea of your past is usually referred to in the negative sense. Some believe that the past is the problem and it has to be worked through in order for you to transform your life. However, some believe that your past does not exist, actually that it never existed. All you have is the present, the moment, the Now. This is all that you have ever had, from one moment to the next moment. Our belief that we have a past is the first part of the problem and the second is that inside this belief about the past are events that need to be resolved. The barrier or constraint to our life is exactly this, our beliefs about the existence of the past. To the degree that we believe that a past exists and that it somehow has or is still affecting our life will create and generate negative experiences for us. The constraints and barriers are ones we make up, that we generate from our mind and impose it on the world, on what we believe to be the world or reality. Simply stated we cause the constraint or barrier that limits us in life.
