I entered an Opening and was so excited. But it isn’t bringing me forward at all. It’s bringing me back to the past. Why?

Not Always Forward

There aren’t many rules when it comes to Openings. They are tailored for us individually. Once they are entered, they bring each of us where we need to go. Many Openings move us forward. Like the current of a river, we enter the Opening and are carried forward. Sometimes though, we must jump out of the river and walk back to a point we have been before to revisit it and what happened there.

Sometimes, moving forward can’t happen until we clear the past. Something in the past may be holding us back. Or there may be wisdom to gain by going back – wisdom that wasn’t available until now. If we open our minds to this, we may find ourselves moving faster, once the past is resolved and understood. Some say that life is a circle rather than a straight line  with an endpoint. This perspective makes looking back just another way of travelling the circle.

Here are a few examples of how an Opening may send us back.

• A person shows up from our past and there are things between us that we have never resolved.
• We have regret about something in our past and are given an opportunity to release that regret.
• We find ourselves physically, mentally or emotionally feeling things we have not felt in a long time and had thought we had released them.
• We have unresolved issues with the past and they are starting to get the better of us.

A Chance to Look Again

Quite a few years ago I had a dream. It was a short one. I was a university student. While walking in a field I came upon a tree and one of my professors was sitting beneath it. I asked him what he was teaching in the new semester and he said a course on Repass. I looked up the definition of repass – to pass again; go by again.

At that time in my life, I had just started my coaching practice but had been asked to finish up an environmental project I had worked on a few months before. I thought oh, I’ll be looking back at that project as a repass. Turned out it took me way back to when I was an environmental consultant years before and I realized many things about that time by looking at it with fresh eyes.

We all have times in our pasts that may be worthwhile looking at again. Take a moment and think of two or three. Perhaps things relating to that time are unresolved and affecting us now. Perhaps something in our past is a blur and we need a clear perspective on it. Perhaps we experienced something as a child that was harmful and recognize that we are now adults and can do something about it. Looking back can help us come to peace with what happened and move on