Making Room for Love: A Guided Meditation to Release Old Hurts

 Scott Mills, Ph.D.

Valentine's Day is right around the corner and it can be a tricky day for folks.  Whether we're in a relationship or not, this can be a day that reminds us of past hurts and pains.  We might remember the ways in which people hurt us or disappointed us.  Maybe we think about how we have hurt others.   While being able to see our past patterns so we can change them is very helpful, holding on to the pain of the past can be very destructive to the possibility of new relationships.

Even people who understand the constriction that carrying around all this emotional baggage can bring can have a very difficult time letting it go.  Of course, this is because we think that we can simply tell ourselves that logically we should let it go and be able to.