Comments on: Rewrite Your Past

By: Si Dawson

Si Dawson — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 13:07:22 +0000

Exactly.

"What is Truth" is one of the big philosophical questions of all time.

And on a simple, practical level, what we repeatedly tell ourselves gradually becomes reality anyway. Want to be awesome? Tell yourself (& act as if) that you already are, and voila! You will be.

By: daxmichaels

daxmichaels — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:12:33 +0000

ALSO THIS IS NOT LYING!
What is the truth and what is a lie all depends on your point of reference!
I.e. I had a grammar school teacher who claimed that the A-bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki saved millions of lives! His reality was based on a supposed outcome had the bombs not been dropped that the war would have continued and more American lives would have been lost (as well as Japanese). However, the true reality was an image of Burning men women and babies whose only fault was that they were Japanese.

By: daxmichaels

daxmichaels — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 08:01:39 +0000

And if the memories of your past schools, etc are just to damn depressing, why not say you went somewhere else to school! It is better than thinking of the waste your (real) high school was! You can be whatever you want to be; so why not be who and what you really want to be!!!
Why not rewrite your past? It is no one's business but your own!
Pretend its Carnival in Rio 24–7-365.

By: Si Dawson

Si Dawson — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 18:03:38 +0000

*laugh* just as well I'm doing it for love, not money then, eh?

Plenty of older posts to wade through. Lots of good stuff there too.

By: John

John — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:39:30 +0000

Si! This is worth reading, but it's your most recent post, and it's from mid-December. If I'm going to subscribe to your RSS I'll want more action than that!

By: Evelyn Lim

Evelyn Lim — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:48:46 +0000

Hmmm.…a clear case of attracting the outcomes that are mirrors of your inner thoughts? Good for you!! Thanks for the inspiration!

By: Si Dawson

Si Dawson — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 12:02:08 +0000

Hey you're very welcome. Thinking about it a little deeper, I suspect it all comes down to your personal definition of 'reality', viz.

in other words, answers to questions such as: "Is there 'one true' reality?" (ie, a sole consensual truth), "Do we create our own realities?", "Are we each living in our own universe?", "Do any of us actually exist?", "How is our reality defined/created?", "How much control do we have over our existence(s)?", and so on..

Deep stuff :)

By: Bells

Bells — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:40:14 +0000

Thanks for answering various questions honestly and postively.

I am simply questioning these things because I believe that on your site is about more than just what you are doing, it encourages others to do the same, I am asking if you see it as being similar to simply lying about what has happened, and I pictured a situation arising where someone bases a large portion of their happiness or inner comfort around changing the past, which would be shattered when confronted with the overall reality of it.

To me it doesn't seem emotionally healthy, but as you said, we're all allowed our own theories and you like yours.

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

By: Si Dawson

Si Dawson — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 11:04:59 +0000

That sure is a whole lot of questions :)

Heard of that saying "You are your own worst critic"? Well, altering your memories is one way to stop from beating yourself up so much. There are others - & as you point out, self-acceptance is a good one (although not always easy).

Since nobody remembers anything perfectly (although most people think they do, hence court record discrepancies), this is just a gentle way of pushing things in a more positive direction.

If you have debt, that's a physical, external, current issue - not a memory.

Rewriting your memories is a personal choice, of course. You're uncomfortable with the idea, & that's totally fine. I'm not the boss of you - you are!

I should note there's no way you could know for sure why anyone wrote anything (unless it's you, which it's not).. but we're all allowed our own theories. I like mine :)

By: Bells

Bells — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 10:41:01 +0000

I find this whole concept really strange
Isn't this in essence, lying? Which is emotionally destructive?
Why not accept past mistakes/failings and love yourself regardless?
Perhaps you were a nerd in school, or socially rejected at a party but why let that bare any significant weight on the choices you make TODAY?
What if you tap or recreate memories to forget the fact that you are in a huge amount of crippling debt? Wouldnt you benefit from remembering this and being proactive about it in the present?
Why rewrite the past? When confronted with someone who was there and remembers it accurately won't you be awkwardly lying about how things went down?

The reason that person posted those things about you is because they have maturely accepted them as being accurate and due to perhaps the process of realizing mistakes in past relationships and making a conscious effort to be grateful for the positive and learn from the negative, not because you rewrote how things went down.

I am not saying this to attack you im truly curious as to how you ultimately think this is healthy or of benefit