As I have been learning about LOA, I have realized there is no point in looking at the past. Yet there are advantages sometimes to looking back. Not to convince yourself of the impossibility of something, but to see the distance you've traveled.

Do you have any old diaries, or journals? Maybe even college notes. Have you ever had the experience when you look at those that the person who wrote them may be kind of amusing, even cute, but certainly isn't you? You just can't identify with that being who you are in any way. You may remember writing the notes, but there is a sense of distance between you and that "other" person.

How did you do that? Old beliefs and values - gone! Views and opinions you once held dear - up in smoke! You couldn't care less about those things now!

Today, ask yourself, what view or idea or belief do I cling to that maybe limits me? That if I read ten or twenty years from now I'd smile in mild amusement at the person I was, and realize how limiting that way of thinking was?

Then ask yourself, "How could it be easy to let it go NOW?"

As I continue this journey, I let go of beliefs that hold me back.