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Throw Caution to the Wind

Inner Self Council
13 min readAug 6, 2022

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Today I want to talk about learning from the past. There are far too many of you who are running from the past, trying to leave it behind. But you’re doing so without learning the lessons it contains. It’s uncomfortable to sit with. I know because I’ve trained myself to do just that.

Your memories never leave your mind. That’s true no matter how far and fast you try to run from them. What has come before can inform what is to come now if you don’t change the way you’re reacting or responding. It’s time to acknowledge what has happened to you without taking it personal. See it all for the impersonal, ancestral, societal cycle that it is.

Visiting your past with self-awareness changes everything. What is the story you want people to tell about you when you’re gone? Do you want that story to be true or fabricated? You get to decide that today, right now, tomorrow, at any moment. With just one decision you can change the story.

Surrender to the pull of your higher self. There is nothing good to be found when we are making decisions based in fear. Those decisions usually come from a wounded inner child. Rather than escaping that child walk them through their healing. Surrender to your own voice being all you need.

Are you pursuing your healing as hard as you are external validation? Why do you care so much that other people…

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Inner Self Council
Inner Self Council

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You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors. ― Andrew Boyd

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