MIND-BODY-SPIRIT
Have You Forgotten to Remember? Three Reasons Memory Matters
paralyze us, or repressed like dangers we must avoid to survive. Those of us who value the soul, however we define it, also know forgetting to remember disconnects us from the divine spark that brought us here. A friend of mine, moving through a painful but necessary divorce, often looks back at her marriage and sees the good experiences as well as the difficult ones. Those bittersweet memories help her remember her mantra: the universe has my back and it always has. She connects to her Source even as she connects to memory’s truths. It’s a liberating process, telling ourselves the truth. And it makes all the difference. Being present to the past helps us connect with opportunities to heal and make better choices in the present. Inevitably, through trans- formation and growth, we understand our experiences differently. The stories attached to those memories change and grow, too. When we learn to see remembered events clearly while understanding the lessons they can teach, we become less fearful. We are more alive, lov- ing, curious. We learn to be true to ourselves as whole people on a soul’s journey. Remembering Who We Have Been Helps Us Find Our Purpose “Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.” — John Dewey
BY CAROL BURBANK
It’s a strange time, isn’t it? It’s as if the whole country is afflicted with a puzzling dementia, marked by confusion, anxiety and fear. Memory itself seems to have become untrustworthy, and as a result we grasp at shadows, finding “certainties” that dissolve even as we tighten our grip. What is the remedy for forgetting to remember ourselves as whole souls in a complex world? I believe renewed connection to authentic memories can be restorative again, a way out of personal and cultural crisis and back into community. Here are three reasons to actively re - connect with our memories in these stressful times. Remembering Ourselves Helps Us Find True Healing “There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.” ― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations When we lose the complexity of fully-embraced memory, we lose more than our stories. Easily distracted and ungrounded, we neglect our health — spiritually, physically, and socially. We forget to remem- ber who we truly are, and so we cannot authentically create a path forward. Certainly, memories form the architecture of the psyche, shaping our core stories. But we are in charge of making those stories authen - tic in our lives. Memories do not need to be enshrined like wounds to
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