How much momentum does the past have?

[cylon]

Say you hate little red balloons. You're surrounded by them all day, you walk down the street, they follow you, etc. You find yourself daydreaming of how you hope you don't see any more red balloons that day (you will).

Now since most of your waking days was spent observing the red balloons, with lots of emotion, you can expect them to keep coming for quite some time.

But suppose one day you decide "from now on, green balloons. Those are cool." Let's say you literally only think of green balloons. The red baloons are not on your mind anymore. Only green balloons. You actually forget what red balloons are at times.

If you do this, how much past-fueled momentum do you think those red balloons still have? Do you think they would completely stop showing up the instant you forgot what they were? Or do you think there are little red balloons all over earth that still have your name on them and will come anyway?

Also is this a cheesy analogy?

[infinitethoughts]

Small correction.
How much momentum does your memory have?

You're creating the "past" and the "future" NOW.

[cylon]

Originally Posted by infinitethoughts

Small correction.
How much momentum does your memory have?

You're creating the "past" and the "future" NOW.

Right. What if I have no memory of the past though? Isn't it like a train going really fast that has to slow down gradually before it comes to a stop?

[Eric Revelin]

Originally Posted by cylon

Right. What if I have no memory of the past though? Isn't it like a train going really fast that has to slow down gradually before it comes to a stop?

If you're giving the past momentum by focusing on it now, when you remove your focus it is as if the train never started moving. You don't have to stop what never starts.

[cylon]

Originally Posted by Eric Revelin

If you're giving the past momentum by focusing on it now, when you remove your focus it is as if the train never started moving. You don't have to stop what never starts.

This is interesting to me. Reading Abraham I think I recall them getting into how if you have lots of emotion into something over time it builds up a large "deposit" and you will keep withdrawing from it. So I figured let's skip past this and ask what happens if you literally 100% remove whatever unwanted things you were creating, like if you had amnesia.

I am getting better at being present right now. My concern is reflections of the past showing up today, if the power of the present moment is strong enough to cancel that train. And I guess this is where we get into that time isn't really linear.

Thanks for the responses.

[Acting Like Godot]

I think it depends on how sharply you can change your mind.

My wife can do it easily - I can't. I have noticed that this translates into some significant differences in the way we use the LOA.

[4Mind4Life]

It depends how much momentum you allow your memory to have... If you have constant thoughts of past memories - they will definitely have substantial momentum!

Originally Posted by infinitethoughts

Small correction.
How much momentum does your memory have?

You're creating the "past" and the "future" NOW.

[infinitethoughts]

Originally Posted by cylon

Right. What if I have no memory of the past though?

Is that possible? To have no memory? Absolutely None?

[cylon]

Originally Posted by infinitethoughts

Is that possible? To have no memory? Absolutely None?

Probably not. Just wondering if the reflections of the past would still show up if they weren't being given any new fuel. But I may be asking the wrong question, since it's all now anyway.

[Eric Revelin]

Originally Posted by cylon

Just wondering if the reflections of the past would still show up if they weren't being given any new fuel. But I may be asking the wrong question, since it's all now anyway.

It all hinges on the subconscious mind. You can change your conscious mind on a whim. That requires no discipline at all. The unconscious mind is where everything is really happening. That's the part of you that determines the patterns your life follows and how much stronger those patterns will become. If you can touch upon the core of yourself you can imprint the subconscious with a new paradigm and completely forget the old one.

The tricky part is getting past the concept of forgetting. To forget you have to reach a state where you don't know you've forgotten something. This can be slightly dangerous because shifting paradigms without any idea that you've done so can make it difficult to retain control and consistency within your life (which can lead to insanity). This is why the mind is designed as such that you can't instantly alter the direction of your energy, at least not without discipline. You need a lot of discipline to maintain your center when you invoke a major instantaneous change.

As for how you would actually accomplish something like that, it involves one-pointed focus and strong emotions. Symbols and sounds help a lot, too. I'm talking about anything that embodies the energy you're trying to imprint upon your life. When you are so focused and you're feeling so emotional that that's all that exists, when you've bypassed the conscious mind entirely, then when you invoke a symbol it will reach directly to your subconscious. You can reprogram yourself however you like when you can do that at will.

It may be possible that you can't completely alter the course of the energy you've already put out there. That is to say, certain things may come because of the choices you've made no matter what you do about it in the here and now. My experience is that no matter what was coming, it's not going to take the form of the worst possible outcome if you induce a major shift. In fact it's likely that what happens will be very different from anything that could have happened before. Nearly anything can be stopped and what can't be stopped will be radically altered.

[cylon]

Great post Eric. This is kind of what I'm doing, working on changing this paradigm. I suppose my question came from a place of deciding that I am going to be more disciplined on focusing on what is important to me for now on, and not going down the same roads I had before. Which is all very exciting and different, creating a new road to go down. I just choose to not take the other roads anymore. Maybe it's my "higher self's" way of trying to keep me accountable to this new way of life.

And now I'm going to focus more on what you said about symbols. This could be a great tool for me.

[infinitethoughts]

Originally Posted by Eric Revelin

It all hinges on the subconscious mind. You can change your conscious mind on a whim. That requires no discipline at all. The unconscious mind is where everything is really happening.

It may be possible that you can't completely alter the course of the energy you've already put out there.

Hey Eric.
Just like to add, there is no subconscious or unconscious mind. These are just words taken and not examined. You are conscious.

Right it's not possible if Time is not questioned. As soon as you question Time it takes you out of it.

[Eric Revelin]

Originally Posted by infinitethoughts

Hey Eric.
Just like to add, there is no subconscious or unconscious mind. These are just words taken and not examined. You are conscious.

Right it's not possible if Time is not questioned. As soon as you question Time it takes you out of it.

Which is just another way of looking at it. Due to the position we're in determining the absolute truth behind our thoughts is nigh impossible. Beliefs, then, are tools. We validate them not by confirming their truth but by discovering whether or not they are useful.

When questioning these deeply held beliefs concerning time and the unconscious one can't always predict what will happen. To do away with time does not imply that time will have no impact but rather that the results are likely to both confirm and deny it simultaneously, meaning time either exists in a form we've never comprehended or it does not exist at all and we're conceptualizing something in an inaccurately.

I claim an unconscious mind since it's true to my experience. When that concept is no longer truthful or useful, I'll change my perspective. It's certainly something to question. You'll never fly if you don't challenge gravity.