Leave the Game of Unhappy Memories

God said:

The cure for all that ails you is to move your thoughts over. Some thoughts belong with My divine sons and daughters, and some thoughts do not. Accept this modality ahead of time, and you will be steering your thoughts. You will round them up almost automatically. Your distraught thoughts will go into a truck, and your uplifting thoughts will go out into the green pastures where they can chew their cud.

Why keep thoughts that torment you? When you find that poison ivy makes you itch and you break out in a rash, you stay away from poison ivy. When you have thoughts that torment you, why are such thoughts any different from poison ivy? You do not have to keep exposing yourself to thoughts that are not good for you. What is the sense of that?

Why lay your heart on the block to be chopped? Is that not what you are doing when you accept tormenting thoughts? Perhaps you think that you need to be punished and punished again. For what? Do not sentence yourself to lifelong punishment. Put torturing thoughts away. Wrap them up in newspaper and dig a hole for them in the sand. They do not belong to you. You do not need to keep them. When you have a wound, you leave it alone, and you let it heal. You don't keep opening it to see how it is doing.

You are a Child of God. You are My child. I sent you to Earth to give joy. I did not send you to Earth to punish and repunish yourself. Joy belongs to you. Have a short memory, beloveds. It is hard enough that you experienced or saw or read about something you wish you had not. Do not soak in a bath of such thoughts. Substitute other thoughts. Open another drawer of thoughts and find one you like.

When you are playing poker and you are not winning and you lose every hand, sooner or later you get up and leave the game. You don't have to be a gambling addict. You don't have to be a bad memory addict either. Leave the game of unhappy memories. Go Home. Think of Me.

Here's what I see: Everyone seems to hold on to thoughts that hurt their hearts. Some people have memories of deep unfortunate situations and relationships that haunt them. In one way, we could say that they had memories worth being tormented by. Others have lesser memories yet which seem just as big to them. They were grounded once unfairly. Their siblings didn't let them play with them. They lost their fire truck. It is as though My children will find something painful to fill an empty place. It almost seems that My children may have a need to torment themselves, for they seem to dredge up some kind of neglect, mistreatment, or misunderstanding to rack their hearts.

Psychologists may say I am telling you to repress. No, I am telling you to get over it. Move on. You have already moved on. Let your thoughts catch up to where you are now.

Perhaps you had a parent who didn't give you the love you needed and should have. You are no longer the child. You got through the actuality somehow. You grew up and turned out fine. Be your own loving parent. Treat yourself as you, a Child of God, deserve to be treated. You were once in a fairy tale. You were ruled by an ogre. No longer are you under the ogre's rule. You are not an ogre, so now let yourself free from the past. Walk away from it.

Do not accept leftovers. Do not make yourself a prisoner of the past.

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I wish someone had said this

I wish someone had said this to me thirty, forty years ago when I started to get interested in psychology and "working through" my "issues". Well, maybe I wouldn't have believed it.

Modern depth psychology, a blessing a century ago, encouraging and necessitating more honesty in our relationships and dealings with each other, has longe since degenerated into a major roadblock since, owing to its "trauma" theories, it has mutated into one of the finest tools for denial and repression there are. Now it is literally educating us into holding on rather than freeing us. I think it shares this characteristic with many forms of New Age "healing" and even with spiritual paths old and new - the common denominator being the presupposition of "deep stuff", only in one case you are supposed to work through it and in the other to transcend it. I have tried both, even simultaneously and over many years, and they didn't work. Should I say, Thank God?

Anyway, now I have to be told that none of my deep issues, none of those seeming horrors, are really deep. They may be real, but they get deep (even altering brain structure) only by habitually dredging them up and gazing in wonder at their sheer magnitude again and again. Dear God, what's the survival value in this? If those monsters are all papier mâché, why wrestle with them so endlessly before the penny finally drops? To have a really good laugh?

I love this Letter, dear One. It's so simple, so no big deal. Oh, let's have the age of no big deal.

Dearest Jochen, how may

Dearest Jochen,

how may times have I put myself the same questions. The whys always turned up again, the feeling that a certain experience was not what we deserved and so on, as well as different ways of dealing with our inner issues. I totally share your views on psycology dear.
at a certain point I just felt tired of all this stuff and I started feeling better when I was not thinking of "my stuff" but just staying with God. it took a long time, also because our society, our friends and relatives mostly love to speak about what is not ok instead of what is ok and gives us joy. I suppose at a certain point I was just tired, totally scrumbled to pieces and so I finally surrended to God without holding back anything. My, that was a real turning point.
I am learning step by step to turn around thoughts that are not in alignement with God, like fear, worry, anger. Sometimes those old things come back and God tells me: "Oh, come now, you know that's not who you are !" I feel the most important step was stop thinking that something went wrong, that I experienced things which I should not have experienced, that God made a mistake. I am learning that my soul has a much different agenda than my "small" self. I wanted to learn about unconditional love but how can I make that experience if I am confronted only with people who are sweet and kind to me ? How about unconditional love when those who you love most push all of your buttons in 15 seconds ??

May be dear Jochen, if you had the perfect life you would never have found Heavenletters, and I know that I am ever so glad that you are here right now, showering your love on all of us.
You are one of those very courageous souls I feel, that came to earth with a "full program".

A tender hug and infinite Love and Joy to you dear !
Berit

ahead of time

I envy your "real turning point" a little, lovely one. Just a little. I still have to contend with the dirtiest and most cunning trick ego has in store, which is to simply flood you with nameless and faceless dread, gloom and anguish. Where are you moving your thoughts to when there are no identifiable thoughts to move anywhere? You simply panic, what else is there to do? Really a sly one, you can't do anything except take a nap and ride it out. Well, perhaps the end is in sight even for this. I think this is the best formula ever devised: Some thoughts belong with My divine sons and daughters, and some thoughts do not. Accept this modality ahead of time, and you will be steering your thoughts. You will round them up almost automatically.

What I don't envy is your ankle. How many days until the plaster comes off? Let's not forget to celebrate it.

Love, Jochen

Dearest Jochen, my ego is

Dearest Jochen,

my ego is very much alife still and always ready to bump in and surrendering to God only when nothing is left of myself is a bit of a match. Could do it earlier, couldn't we ? Right from the beginning...

I think one week and the plaster of 1 ton will be removed for good I hope ! :-)))

Before replying to your beautiful post I checked my emails and I found my daily online message from Jeshua, the perfect message my heart feels to give to you right now, so that you might have a glimpse of the love you shower on all of us:

You are the Light, wherever you go. You bring enlightenment to other ones. You bring the words of hope to others ones who, perhaps, have lost their way momentarily, and you bring enlightenment into their life, because you desire it, they desire it, and then you come together in a place where you say, "There must be something better than this; I see the goodness in you." That, in that moment, changes the energy of everything.

Much much Love
Berit

Thank you. And you will

Thank you.

And you will remember your angelness as soon as that ton gets removed. Do watch out a little when taking off, okay?

:-))

:-))

The Age of No Big Deal. What

The Age of No Big Deal. What a great expression, Jochen. Powerful. Evocative. Unforgettable.

Naturally, I love everything

Naturally, I love everything God says in Heavenletters most of all. Here are a couple of quotes from the upcoming Calendar e- book (Beloved Jochen, it looks like God did tell us this before!!!)

“You are a beautiful being of Mine. Why bother with all those other thoughts that bring you turmoil. Do you enjoy turmoil so much? Do you enjoy the story more than the Author?”
#34
The Past, Part 1
http://www.heavenletters.org/the-past-part-i.html

“Do you want to be attuned to the world or to Me? Be attuned to Me, and you will attune the world…"
#16
The One Truth You Have Denied
http://www.heavenletters.org/the-one-truth-you-have-denied.htm

“You are not dependent upon what goes on around you. Your life is not scenery-based. Your life is God-based. Thank goodness.”

#17
http://www.heavenletters.org/a-golden-cord-connects-the-son-with-the-fat...

You have a point there, oh

You have a point there, oh Plastered One II. And that's exactly why I always say that God's words in Heavenletters™ are not a teaching but a massage. The same strokes every day, mostly soft, sometimes a little bit rough, always loving. There is not much that needs to be understood intellectually, just to be around, just to expose yourself to this massage until one day something reaches the very core of you where you don't know anything anyway.

Thanks Gloria and Jochen

Thanks for those WONDERFUL quotes dear Gloria ! How are you dear ?

The massage is a most beautiful description, indeed it is not about understanding but experiencing God's love day by day. I love to expose myself day by day to this divine massage !!

Love
Berit

Beloved Berit, I don't know

Beloved Berit, I don't know which is worse or which is better, to have a broken leg like you or shoulder like me! Very inconvenient in any case! Every day I get better. Arm is immobilized. I consider myself very fortunate, dear. When do you get your cast off?

Dearest Gloria, I too

Dearest Gloria, I too thought about it and could't decide what is better or worse, well... it just happened. I'm glad you get better dear, it really hurts me to think of you in this state.
I think our gardian angels were very much present reducing the consequences to the minimum.
Good to see the lucky side !
Mine should be finished 7th of january, if doc is satisfied with x-rays. I'll love to have my foot back to myself without any doc handling it !
How long do you have to bear with it dear ? Gloria dear, what is a treadmill ? I looked it up, it's a kind of mill ? What were you doing dear ? A sweet Angel like you shouldn't work, but just shower smiles and love !!!!!!!!
Infinite Love and a tender hug
Berit

Beloved Berit, A treadmill

Beloved Berit,

A treadmill is an exercise machine. You walk on it. You walk in place while this big belt keeps moving. It wasn't the treadmill's fault, you understand. I wasn't paying attention.

My daughter was just telling me about someone on a message board of hers who broke both her ankles at the same time. Now don't you feel better?!!!

My three-week appointment is the day after yours! The emergency room doctor said it would be six to eight weeks before the arm would heal. I don't know if shoulder or arm is worse!

Has your leg stopped hurting?

Angel, thanks for explaining

Angel, thanks for explaining the treadmill !! I suppose, just as I will pay very much attention on the stairs in future, you will do the same on the treadmill !
I shudder at thought of both ankles, oh my !

We'll make an up date within a week then on how were going, ok ?

It does not hurt so much, only the plaster is so tight that I have to talk to my read blood cells to convince them to keep circulating in the foot too !

much love !

4 Heavenletter Haikus for

4 Heavenletter Haikus for you

Hello Friends,

God said think of Me
Treat yourself as My God Child
To have and give joy

God said Divine One
Be your own loving parent
You grew up just fine

God said accept this
I Am the cure for all ails
And for what ails you

God said free yourself
You were in a fairy tale
Now let the past go

Love, Light and Aloha!

Game Of The Past

Thank you for the healing truths...

Sophia19
India.

Are you 19 years old?

Are you 19 years old?

Have a short memory, beloveds

Reading this Letter again more than a year later, I can see that there are real changes. I clearly remember the frustration at the discrepancy of understanding quite well what was being said and feeling unable to put it into practice. How angry I was at myself for not being able to follow God's advice! The amazing insight, making me laugh, is that Even God does not have a magic formula. As I realize now, that was what I hoped for, thinking that God should be able to express things in a way that enables me to, well, apply the cure for all that ails me. A fast cure, please.

As it turns out, there was a magic formula. It said, "Long for it"; it said, "Lean there." Apparently I was able to do that, even without much hope, even despairing, and so a shallow insight could deepen a little. Still wishing for a fast cure, I find that a slow one – not being tormented by toxic thoughts quite as much any more – is nice as well.

Rough rule of thumb: Walking away from thoughts that hurt you takes a year, even if you have the best coach there is.