Letting Go, To Accept the New You

Letting go of the way one is comfortable experiencing and interacting with life can be difficult. People who become disabled in life or have other dramatic life altering changes could have additional challenges with letting go of their old life to move forward. Some of these changes might be losing a loved one, having a serious medical condition or illness, losing a job, losing one’s place of residence, or many other life altering experiences. Changing attitudes and thoughts of what one used to be able to do, and the realization of the new way one needs to accomplish tasks can be overwhelming and fearful for some.

I do not know why some individuals can more easily move ahead without the distractions of how life once was.

I can only share my thoughts and feelings about how life once was for me, and what it is like to move ahead. I hope others will share their thoughts and feelings, so we can all better understand what attitudes will help us move forward, and not dwell on the past..

After a serious illness caused my complete vision loss, I was given the opportunity to learn how to do everything differently than the way I was accustomed to doing with vision.

I had fears and concerns at first, wondering about how I would accomplish life’s tasks as a newly blind person. I did not stay in that frame of mind long. I immediately began to surround myself fully in educational opportunities and positive people. This enabled me to learn the most efficient and effective way to be as successful as possible in my new life. I work very hard and put in long hours. I think this is one way of not focusing or dwelling on the past I once knew. When I am being productive at my place of employment or enjoying daily routines, I do not even realize or notice I do not have any eyesight. Only when I am relaxed and not active late at night I sometimes think to myself, "I cannot see a thing, and never will again".

For that moment I still have thoughts of how drastically my life has changed. I think about what never seeing another person ever again really means. In my mind’s eye all faces of everyone I know are frozen in time for ever and will never age. I then put my hands closely in front of my eyes, move them away, and do not see any difference in the darkness, to really emphasize what a changes I have experienced

I am grateful my positive energy and ability to adapt and transform myself far outweigh the thoughts of how my life once was. Even though now all I see is darkness, my inner sight is much clearer and filled with more light than my physical eyes were ever able to see when I had eyesight.

I believe with this mind-set we have the ability to better put our heart and soul into what we want to accomplish.

Do not give up on your dreams. Let go of the past and allow your inner strengths to grow, blossom and propel you forward. Have faith and trust in yourself and, others... Do not be frustrated if your transformation does not happen on your timetable. Other possibilities might be in your path to your success and happiness which may require more time to develop into your reality.

Learn from your life altering events, and leverage skills you had the opportunity to learn to help you in your professional and personal life. The skill-set of quickly overcoming challenges, handling changing priorities, focusing on what is most important, developing innovative techniques to adapt and solve problems and move forward is highly valued.

Do you have examples of how you have let go of the past to move forward in life? Any examples of how skills you acquired helped you in your professional and personal life? Do you have any examples of difficulties letting go of the past that you want to share with us? Any other thoughts and suggestions you would like to share with us?

We all look forward to hearing from you.

Bill Tipton

Contributing Author,

Global Dialogue Center

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