Nationwide in the United States, 81% of women and 43% of men reported experiencing some form of sexual harassment and/or assault in their lifetime. In this video, Sadhguru is asked a question that prevails in the hearts and minds of countless survivors of sexual violence. When one reaches the point of overcoming past trauma, why does guilt often stand in the way? And is it even right to let go of such experiences?
“Your whole life is happening between these three dimensions: memory, present experience and imagination. All your experience of life is happening here, but if you lose distinction between what is past, what is present, what is future, then everything hurts” – Sadhguru
Human beings, Sadhguru explains, have two unique faculties that set us apart: a vivid sense of memory and a fantastic sense of imagination. And it is these very faculties that we suffer, even irrespective of whether we’ve had terrible experiences in our past.
But what if something harrowing lurks in our past? Should we try to forget it? Sadhguru not only answers this question definitively but also offers a solution that addresses the very root of the problem. He alludes to the fashionable nature that suffering has taken on in society and why this has come to be:
“People think if they’re suffering, they are very intellectual, they are very profound. No, It’s just stupid, because you’re suffering something that doesn’t exist” – Sadhguru
Today, we are taught much about the world around us and little about how to use our own faculties. Could the solution to overcoming past trauma be one’s own inner growth and competence? For those who would like to experience their lives without the pause of guilt and inner struggle, this video offers many gems on the road to a permanent solution.
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