A Letter To Younger You

One of the most powerful ways to heal yourself is through writing. When we think of writing, most of us are immediately overwhelmed by the mere thought! “I can’t write.” “Writing is definitely something I can’t do, I can’t even spell properly!”

The point is that the writing you do for yourself doesn’t have to be ‘professional’. It doesn’t even need to make perfect sense. You’re writing for yourself with the intent that no-one else will read what you’ve written. The object is to use writing as a form of speaking to yourself, of getting to know yourself and of getting all those awful intrusive, controlling, negative thoughts out of your head and to see them written down on paper.

The number one benefit is removing those thoughts and feelings from your head. You’re giving space for yourself to conjure other thoughts and ideas – to feel different emotions. And that could mean that you’re just perpetuating the cycle of bad thoughts and emotions. But, what you need to be doing is, within that new space you’re creating, consciously focus on coming up with new thoughts and ideas that will generate new and positive emotions, that in turn will have a positive impact on your life.

Another benefit of writing your thoughts and feelings down is that it decreases the power of those thoughts and emotions. And very often when you see your thoughts written down, for the most part, you will realise that actually, they’re not as bad as you perceived them to be. That what you’re feeling and going through, on paper, sometimes sounds ridiculous and you get to an aha moment – an aha moment that will spur you on to removing your energy from these thoughts and emotions. And rather using your thoughts and emotions more positively and more productively.

Every blockage in our adult life, every challenge, every self-deprecating thought, is a product of the traumas we have experienced in earlier life. Traumas that we never healed from. This is why you hear people say things like “He knows exactly which button to press to hurt me”. The button being referred to, is the trauma hidden deep down within that person, that was never worked through and healed. If you can identify what that trauma is, you can begin a healing process that will get you to a point where next time he tries to press the button to hurt you, he will be ineffective.

If you were to write a letter to your younger self, what would you say in that letter? Take a few moments to think about it now….. I am willing to bet you that what you need to tell your younger self, you need to be telling yourself right now. And the reason I say this is because, if you need to tell your younger self something specific, that means that you’re still aware of that something specific and you haven’t healed from it yet. This may come as a surprise to you, you may even disagree with me. But, I urge you to give it some thought and see if I’m right.

There is an upside to this. It’s not about discovering how much unhealed trauma you still carry with you. Rather it’s about being able to identify that which still troubles you and taking the right action to bring about healing for yourself.

So do take some time today and write a letter to younger you. It doesn’t matter what age younger you is. You’ll see that the younger you that you choose, will be what correlates directly into what you need right now.