A Silent Revolution: The Past That Impacts Us

A peculiar thing it is to look into the past, diving into memories and how we’ve stored them. It’s said that about 50% of memories details change in a year, although most are convinced they are 100% right.

“Then and there are absolutely irrelevant.

Or aren’t they? What about your husband’s death, for example? Is that irrelevant?” …

“In the context of what I have to do now - yes completely irrelevant. That’s something I had to learn.”

“Does one learn to forget?”

“It isn’t a matter of forgetting. What one has to learn is how to remember and yet be free of the past. How to be there with the dead and yet still be here, on the spot, with the living.”

- Aldous Huxley, Island

We store many memories, some attached to stronger emotions than others, often categorized as ‘good, bad’ or even forgotten.

Rather than attaching ourselves to every memory and experience, we can open up the space to feel our emotions as they arise and resurface - especially when we don’t understand. It is important to allow these feelings to arise for release through the many ways we need to; physically and emotionally. Space we can make to create, share, express, destroy. And in that space, allow new thoughts and feelings to form.

ZACHRIEL, ANGEL OF MEMORY

Eternally lost, Zachriel carelessly winds and unwinds the threads of thought. Memory has no worries or concerns.

The power of remembrance is balanced by the power of forgetfulness. Pouring memory into the cup of forgetfulness makes room for new memory. Zachriel is the Angel of all memory, even memory lost. If you take something with you, you must also leave something behind.

Signs: A knot, a loom, a maze

Peter Mohrbacher - Angelarium

The journey begins within as we can only meet others from where we are internally with ourselves. We have built walls and barriers within to protect ourselves. Titles and trauma to identify with. A self image that becomes so familiar, we can forget there is anything beyond it.

No one is rushing, pressuring or pushing to heal or change. The only expectations we place are upon ourselves. This does not mean taking abrupt actions nor the need to go into complete isolation. This is an ongoing process that takes continuous mindfulness, patience and most importantly continued forgiveness and non judgment of self.

Though it is no one’s responsibility to save another, we shall continue to walk together with compassion through the never ending journey of life and memories. Welcoming who we have always been as we release all that was once familiar.