I recently saw a reel on Instagram about a woman who received some profound insight from her therapist. The therapist asked the woman to do an exercise. I adjusted it a little but it went something like this…
Close your eyes. Now, envision yourself walking alone in the woods. As you are walking, imagine passing the trees that surround you in every direction. Feeling the cool breeze on your face. Hearing the crunch of the foliage underneath your feet. You can hear laughing in the distance. As you get closer to the sound of laughter, you see a bonfire to your right surrounded by people. They are having fun enjoying each other’s company. When you get closer, you recognize each of those people surrounding the bonfire.
They are all versions of yourself throughout your life. You are standing in front of you as a child, a teenager, a young adult and in middle age. There is also an older version of you near the end of your life. [You can imagine any version of you at any age ranging from birth to one hundred.] You walk over to them and start talking to every version of yourself throughout your life. What would you say to each one?
I found this exercise to be profound thinking about time and energy. I have written a few letters to my younger self before focusing on one pivotal turning point in my life. I have never thought to write a letter to each version of myself, especially my future self.
Time is an illusion. In the quantum field of energy, the past, present and future are simultaneously happening now. There is no separation of time like we noticeably experience on earth in the third dimension.
As we do the inner work to heal our wounds, the energetic frequency from the past transforms. Healed energy creates a higher frequency. When we are in a higher frequency, we are in alignment with our soul’s purpose.
Anytime we are in flow with our highest energetic frequency, our life is filled with higher vibrational feelings. Those feelings are joy, passion, happiness, and optimism. Low vibrational feelings are doubt, worry, blame, anger, hatred, jealousy, guilt and fear.
Everything you have experienced in your lifetime holds an energetic frequency. Anytime we heal a part of our self by changing our perception of an event that occurred, we transform that energetic frequency. As Einstein said, “Energy cannot be created or destroyed, it can only be changed from one form to another.” You have the power to transform your energy throughout time and space by shifting your perception.
Imagine standing in front of every version of yourself throughout your lifetime. What would you want to say to each one? How would you speak to yourself? Would you show yourself kindness and grace to your younger self? Would you forgive yourself for past regrets and mistakes? Would you tell yourself words of encouragement? Would you hug yourself and give yourself the love you always deserved but didn’t receive?
After doing this exercise, how do you feel? Even doing this exercise will shift and transform the energy of your past…and your future.