World View Perspective: Forgiving ourselves from the past
As we develop and grow, we shift, change and adapt to our changing circumstances! This is usually considered maturity! What we thought worked for us last month, may not work now! Yet, as we get older, understanding more about how the world works in other ways, we can become less and less flexible in our thinking! That means we can inadvertently, cling to old self identifications that are no longer who we are! We can actually and energetically get stuck playing those same roles out, over and over, perhaps remaining quite unconscious in the process! The additional issue is, other people, most likely connected to our past, like family, can and will cling to that old identification as well! This also keeps us feeling trapped in the past, unable to easily move forward! When we were developing and going, growing through our needed and necessary stages and ages, the skills, natural abilities, given talents and intellectual aptitudes were what we had to work with at each point! Yet, on