Obsessively thinking about old silly mistakes

Well actually, I'm getting this a lot lately. Every memory that comes to me causes pain like a thousand bullets hitting me all at once. I am filled with regrets and am trying to work on forgiving myself for the wrong that I have done in my life.

I can't let go of things that I've done wrong or things that humiliated me or made me look bad. This is getting better with therapy, but I've been convinced for a long time that I was a bad person because of crappy things I've done in the past. I sometimes blame myself for things that I probably shouldn't.

_Lukas said:

I can't let go of things that I've done wrong or things that humiliated me or made me look bad. This is getting better with therapy, but I've been convinced for a long time that I was a bad person because of crappy things I've done in the past. I sometimes blame myself for things that I probably shouldn't.

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I got so bad with it for some months that I thought that karma would be out to get me. I searched for a karma busting mantra to recite on YouTube and found one. I chanted it day and night for weeks until I started to forget to do it. I've not thought so much about it for the last couple of years but memories still haunt me.

janemariesayed said:

I got so bad with it for some months that I thought that karma would be out to get me. I searched for a karma busting mantra to recite on YouTube and found one. I chanted it day and night for weeks until I started to forget to do it. I've not thought so much about it for the last couple of years but memories still haunt me.

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I'm sorry you felt that way, that must have been awful
I've also worried that the bad things that happened to me were a result of karma and that I was just getting what I deserved.

_Lukas said:

I'm sorry you felt that way, that must have been awful
I've also worried that the bad things that happened to me were a result of karma and that I was just getting what I deserved.

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Oh God! Tell me about it! In the last couple of years, I began to believe in reincarnation which I never did before. I grew up a Christian and love Jesus, but I was also a pagan. I came to understand about energy and how it works. Then I started to get into chakras and vibrations. I don't know if it is true but I read that mantras have a specific vibration when chanted.

Even some prayers are supposed to have certain vibrations that can bring about what is asked for. I've had an amazing spiritual journey and I've reached this point where if energy is eternal, then so must life be. I realised that I saw death as a shifting of the poles.

I started to look up who I could have been in my past life and found some amazing results. When I have compared that persons life to my own it all makes complete sense. It also makes me guilty and deserving of the trauma I have had in this life. That is if I was truly that person. That was when I learned that the 8th and most important chakra sits about meter above our heads and it's the chakra that governs all our karma.

I think that doing the mantras helped me, even if it was all in the mind it helped me anyway.

It is strange how free I do feel. It seems as though death doesn't really exist because it is as you say 'cyclic'. I noticed that with everything having a particular vibration to itself that we can make changes in our lives.