Avoid dwelling on all the wrong things you have done

All too often I find myself reliving, remembering, and berating myself for every mistake I have made, every harsh word I have uttered, every unkind thought I have had -  convincing myself that there is only bad within me. I try to read and absorb these words of Paramahansaji regularly....

“Avoid dwelling on all the wrong things you have done. They do not belong to you now. Let them be forgotten. It is attention that creates habit and memory. As soon as you put the needle on a phonograph record,it begins to play. Attention is the needle that plays the record of past actions. So you should not put your attention on bad ones. Why go on suffering over the unwise actions of your past ? Cast their memory from your mind,and take care not to repeat those actions again.

Reflection on negative things is not the purpose of man's God- given memory. Some people go on remembering all the suffering they passed through, and how terrible the pain was, from an operation that took place twenty years ago ! Over and over again they relive the consciousness of that sickness. Why repeat such experience ? To deliberately recall painful and evil experience is a misuse of memory and a sin against your soul” 🕉🙏🏽🕉

Paramahansa Yogananda