{"id":4562,"date":"2010-12-23T18:02:35","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T22:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/?p=4562"},"modified":"2010-12-23T18:23:59","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T22:23:59","slug":"exploring-the-ghosts-of-past-present-and-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/2010\/12\/23\/exploring-the-ghosts-of-past-present-and-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring with the Ghosts of Past, Present and Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ttr_start\"><\/div><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lautsu\/2172050803\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4575\" title=\"Past Present Future\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PastPresentFuture.jpg\" alt=\"Past Present Future\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PastPresentFuture.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PastPresentFuture-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Our past, the present, and our unwritten future<\/strong>, and what we think of them, they tend to haunt us now and again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If your ghosts happen to visit this holiday season<\/strong> (or any time), why not invite them in and explore with them. They have much to teach us when we are open to acknowledging them and adapting to their presence.<\/p>\n<h3>Learning From the Past: The Ghost of Who You Were<\/h3>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re a fan of change or not, you aren&#8217;t the same person as you were. You&#8217;ve changed. You&#8217;ve grown.<\/p>\n<p>Your visions of the past can be one of your chief assets. They can tell you about <strong>Who You Are<\/strong> now, what you want, what you don&#8217;t want, what you like and what you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who You Were<\/strong> can show you that the good stuff and the bad stuff have helped to shaped you equally.<\/p>\n<p>How you remember <strong>Who You Were<\/strong> is yours to choose. It can be your chain, it can be your springboard, it can be whatever you desire.<\/p>\n<h3>Being With the Present: The Ghost of Who You Are<\/h3>\n<p>Only in this very moment are you present. Only in the now are you <strong>Who You Are<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Your mind, your thoughts, keep you in the past, or&#8230; <em>race you to the future<\/em>. It is only in the place of feeling, of acting on instinct, that you are present and You.<\/p>\n<p>Before you can think it, you must feel it. Notice the feelings. <strong>Who You Are<\/strong> creates <strong>Who You Will Be<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h3>Playing With the Future: The Ghost of Who You Will Be<\/h3>\n<p>The future is unwritten and it&#8217;s yours to create. <strong>Who You Will Be<\/strong> is altered in the present, through your choices.<\/p>\n<p>In allowing your decisions to come from within, you&#8217;ll find order emerging from your creative choices. Your future can be whatever you envision &#8212; if you make choices that support <strong>Who You Are<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t allow limited views to restrict your visions. <strong>Who You Will Be<\/strong> is yours to design.<\/p>\n<p><em>photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lautsu\/\">lautsu<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"ttr_end\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/lautsu\/2172050803\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4575\" title=\"Past Present Future\" src=\"http:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PastPresentFuture.jpg\" alt=\"Past Present Future\" width=\"664\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PastPresentFuture.jpg 664w, https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/PastPresentFuture-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 664px) 100vw, 664px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[tweetmeme] <strong>Our past, the present, and our unwritten future<\/strong>, and what we think of them, they tend to haunt us now and again.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If your ghosts happen to visit this holiday season<\/strong> (or any time), why not invite them in and explore with them. They have much to teach us when we are open to acknowledging them and adapting to their presence.<\/p>\n<h3>Learning From the Past: The Ghost of Who You Were<\/h3>\n<p>Whether you&#8217;re a fan of change or not, you aren&#8217;t the same person as you were. You&#8217;ve changed. You&#8217;ve grown.<\/p>\n<p>Your visions of the past can be one of your chief assets. They can tell you about <strong>Who You Are<\/strong> now, what you want, what you don&#8217;t want, what you like and what you don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who You Were<\/strong> can show you that the good stuff and the bad stuff have helped to shaped you equally.<\/p>\n<p>How you remember <strong>Who You Were<\/strong> is yours to choose. It can be your chain, it can be your springboard, it can be whatever you desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-growing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elasticmind.ca\/innerpreneur\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}