What do you do with your ghosts?

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What do you do with your ghosts?

by lucreziaborgia ^Pro @ 2008-12-30 – 00:30:09

We all have our ghosts to deal with. I stashed most of mine deep into my closet, and jumped up and down on the pile to keep it compact and avoid release. Many hold me in their invisible silky net. A few, I have conquered. One of these, I am even meeting tomorrow.

I find dealing with other people's ghosts a much more palatable option. They can't hurt me, and they feel my lack of fear. I can unlatch their cold fingers from people's souls without recoiling from contact, a little like sweeping the cobwebs away from a dark corner.
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- 2008-12-30 @ 09:23:38
Do we all have our ghosts to deal with? I am not sure I really have so many. I have past relationships, but they do not haunt me. I have situations, but they do not haunt me. Nothing haunts me as such. Maybe I have just reached a stage where I have made peace with my soul. Is that going to be what you do this year?
- - lucreziaborgia ^Pro
  - 2008-12-30 @ 10:47:33
  Yes. It is. xLux
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- Old-Nick ^Pro
- 2008-12-30 @ 09:33:55
Some of my ghosts are fading, even though some of them I want to keep close to me as they are all I have left of the person.
- - lucreziaborgia ^Pro
  - 2008-12-30 @ 10:48:36
  And that's the problem... Until I truly want mine to go, I just allow them to dance with me. One last dance... And they come back again. xLux
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- Bushka ^Pro
- Bushka
- 2008-12-30 @ 10:39:43
Yes, I also have ghosts - so to speak - but I am not haunted by them because I have learnt to accept them as part of my rich life-experience..and I think they feel more comfortable having been given a little space of their own in my life. Good Luck for tomorrow.
- - lucreziaborgia ^Pro
  - 2008-12-30 @ 10:49:26
  Thanks. I have given mine some space indeed. xLux
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- timsuzi ^Pro
- 2009-01-01 @ 19:35:21
Mine visit every night, they sleep uneasily within me until then. But once out of my body they awaken me by whispering all that I have done wrong with their icy breath.
I argue with them and then they eventually leave returning back inside of me unsated by my answers ready to begin again in the small hours of the next day.
- - lucreziaborgia ^Pro
  - 2009-01-01 @ 22:04:39
  Yes. I know. Sometimes I keep them at bay with the other, more pleasant ghosts I also hold inside me. It doesn't work all the time, but it's worth trying. xLux
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- deleted user (Visitor)
- 2009-01-02 @ 17:58:53
You're right, we all have ghosts but I find dwelling on them or stashing them away & hiding them in the closet only gives them power. The past is the past and there's nothing we can do to change it. As someone once said, your only point of power is in the now. What you do now can shape tomorrow but can never undo the past.

Why hold on to your ghosts if all they cause is pain and hurt?

I know that's easier said than done as it's taken me a long time to battle some ghosts I had. It was only when I realised that I was only causing myself pain by hanging on to the awful memory that I changed my thought pattern. It was also realising I could forgive this particular person without having to condone what he tried to do me. I alwys equated fogiveness with an acceptance that it's OK. I can now forgive even though it wasn't OK.
- - lucreziaborgia ^Pro
  - 2009-01-02 @ 21:50:45
  So very true! Well put. xLux
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