How to Stop Cringing at Your Past Self - Make Peace with Your Past!
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Cringing at your past self will always keep you warm on a cold winter’s night. We all have reasons to cringe at our past. Whether it’s how we looked, what we did or something we stood for. There’s plenty of cringe to be found in our past. A healthier option would be to laugh and embrace our past. A chance to make peace with the past and also an opportunity to understand ourselves better. Thankfully, through my own intense cringe sessions, I’ve worked out a way to solve this issue!
What you have to do is recognise that the reason why you cringe is that you’re judging your past self based on what you know now, not what you knew or how thought then. That’s totally unfair to judge yourself with your new found maturity and wisdom.
You have to get back into the head of your past self and remember how you used to see things back then, specifically around the thing you’re cringing about. The choice you made back then seemed to make sense and probably appeared as a good idea! Or the way you were feeling and how you interpreted things back then determined how you made those choices.
This is just a perspective issue. Once you can recognise this you can begin to forgive yourself. Our pasts no matter how painful can be a strong factor in our future success. If it wasn’t for something bad happening in the past you wouldn’t have developed as a person. I think you can regret things from a micro perspective but looking at things in the macro it’s hard to dismiss your past regrets. If you end up at a place in life where you’re happy and successful on your own terms, you have to almost give a strange credit and appreciation towards your struggles.
You wouldn’t be you without your past. The key thing is to be happy with who you are and what you’re doing. Or at least be on the journey to achieving that. Then your past can be understood, forgiven and weirdly appreciated. It built you. The fact that you can even look back on things and cringe shows you now know differently. It shows you’ve matured and gained a new perspective and wisdom. You’ve changed. You’re not the same person, look how far you’ve come. It’s an improvement.
The more you understand yourself and why you did things the sooner you can make peace with your past and who you are. This will help to lead you to self love and also self forgiveness. Recognise the beneficial change within yourself and turn the negatives into positives.
Cringing at your past self will always keep you warm on a cold winter’s night. We all have reasons to cringe at our past. Whether it’s how we looked, what we did or something we stood for. There’s plenty of cringe to be found in our past. A healthier option would be to laugh and embrace our past. A chance to make peace with the past and also an opportunity to understand ourselves better. Thankfully, through my own intense cringe sessions, I’ve worked out a way to solve this issue!
What you have to do is recognise that the reason why you cringe is that you’re judging your past self based on what you know now, not what you knew or how thought then. That’s totally unfair to judge yourself with your new found maturity and wisdom.
You have to get back into the head of your past self and remember how you used to see things back then, specifically around the thing you’re cringing about. The choice you made back then seemed to make sense and probably appeared as a good idea! Or the way you were feeling and how you interpreted things back then determined how you made those choices.
This is just a perspective issue. Once you can recognise this you can begin to forgive yourself. Our pasts no matter how painful can be a strong factor in our future success. If it wasn’t for something bad happening in the past you wouldn’t have developed as a person. I think you can regret things from a micro perspective but looking at things in the macro it’s hard to dismiss your past regrets. If you end up at a place in life where you’re happy and successful on your own terms, you have to almost give a strange credit and appreciation towards your struggles.
You wouldn’t be you without your past. The key thing is to be happy with who you are and what you’re doing. Or at least be on the journey to achieving that. Then your past can be understood, forgiven and weirdly appreciated. It built you. The fact that you can even look back on things and cringe shows you now know differently. It shows you’ve matured and gained a new perspective and wisdom. You’ve changed. You’re not the same person, look how far you’ve come. It’s an improvement.
The more you understand yourself and why you did things the sooner you can make peace with your past and who you are. This will help to lead you to self love and also self forgiveness. Recognise the beneficial change within yourself and turn the negatives into positives.
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