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.