>>8767721but really the big part of it is detaching yourself from your past. It's why the ritual of baptism developed. You become "reborn". You say "that isn't me anymore. I'm just someone who woke up in this body, with this past, and this situation. Wow that person really fucked up in their past/had a fucked up past, well shit that sucks, okay, well I'm stuck in this body, so what do I do now?"
Realizing your autonomy and continuous death/rebirth as a consequence of being an immortal spirit, with a mortal consciousness constantly grinding an infinite past against an infinite future, and existing only within the infinitely minuscule duration of what we call the "present" is an infinite string of versions of ourselves. We can take control. We can break patterns. We don't have to continue on our trajectory. Our past is only our starting point but determines nothing of what we can choose to do now. Determines nothing of how we must >feel< right now. People choose to be depressed. You can also choose to let it go. You can also choose to be happy and enjoy life (if nothing is actively wrong, like physiological/security needs aren't met)
