Is it ever possible to truely put our past behind us and move on?

Our past is a part of us, no matter how bad it it it helped you get where you are today, I think it is better to accept it and tell yourself and others it happened and you you learnt a lot from it and then move on...it happened , it is there, accept it and be happy you are survived it and move on...

No if something is really that bad you probally won't forget it ever. Just like I can remember what we had at the movies before my dad had his stroke. But sometimes I can't remember what I had for lunch. If somethings that bad or scarry you probally will remember it for a lifetime.

In my Case EsKaren no I pretened it never happened but it is there deep down and surfaces now and again and believ me Sweet there is a lot buried with you probably to Hugs

It is possible to put our past behind us and move on. Most often this happens when some unhappy event in our lives have affected us that it becomes so hard to go forward. If we did something bad in the past and we want to run away from it but know we never could, it is better to put behind us and move on as a better person with a better purpose. What matter mos is how we are able to rise up and be a much better person now and i the future because of the past that has taught us valuable lesson.

I sometimes wonder...I think many of us our a bit haunted by our past...we blame ourselves for things we did or didn't do and wish we could go back in time to change it, because it is only after so many years later sometimes that we see our mistakes or the bad choices we have made and wish we had the power to change them...Then of course, there are the people in our lives that we want to blame for the various things that have happened to us because of them...Believe me I'm trying to move on with my life...cause the honest truth is that we really CAN'T dwell in the past too much if we want to move on...No matter what wrong turns we've made, or how the people in our past affected us in the negative we do have the power to learn from it all..and get on with life..although I do admit it is far from easy!

I personally have many things in my past, like plenty of other people, that I wish would stay there. But unfortunatly in my experiences the past keeps creeping behind me, and hitting me over the head, or blocking my road to the future. No matter how many times I think I have made peace with a situation, it always ends up coming back somehow. I am just hoping that with everytime I deal with it, it will get easier and easier. So it is possible to move on, but impossible to forget your past.

I believe that we can put our past behind us but sometimes it takes time and patience to do that since sometimes our past does not want to be put behind us. I know in the past when I started a relationship that was too soon for my well being I have been unable to put my past relationship behind me making the new relationship in trouble before even starting.

In my life my past creeps up on me. I haev gotten over alot of things but I will never truly forget it. Its a part of me and has helped shape who I am today.

I like to think that my past is behind me. Though our past is what forms our future I believe. Every now and then something will pop up to remind me of where I came from and where I am today.

I would say it is possible, but maybe not easy, dependent on the past indident. This is how I see it... If you have issues with someone from your past, you need to get closure or that person will keep "creeping" into your awareness every time there is something to remind you of him/her. From my experience the only way to get closure is really to let go and forgive them for what you believe they did wrong. I say what *you believe* they did wrong because perhaps they don't think they did anything wrong and are unaffected by your dislike/hate of them that will in fact be binding you to them but not them to you. In Zen practice, we call this attachment, and the whole purpose of zazen (Zen meditation) is detachment and therefore true liberation that leads to ultimate enlightenment (nirvana). If you have guilt (self-blame) for something you did in the past, this can bind you also. Whatever it is that you create guilt from, again needs to be forgiven. Guilt is an absolutely wasteful, destructive emotion. What happened, happened and cannot be undone - so guilt is just clinging to it wishing it had been different. But seeing the past no longer exists, what you did or others did no longer exists and punishment/self-punishment is an illusion anyway. However, we need to play the game and forgive ourselves and then move on. There are hundreds, maybe thousands if you can accept reincarnation, of incidents that need closure. It is our karma to work through this, although instant enlightenment is possible and karma can be immediately resolved if the mind gets that enlightenment.

We shouldn't! Maybe we should just decide that they are on pleasant part of our past. And since there's nothing that we can do to change everything, then perhaps we should just accept that they happened, that we survived and that we need to move on... It's not easy tp escape from our past, may it be good or bad. It weighs us down and causes us to waste so much time thinking about what might have been if there is absolutely nothing we can do EXCEPT to LEARN from it... GOD BLESS YOU!