When I was young my mother listened to old country songs and one of the songs had the chorus “if I knew then what I know now”. I thought that was rather silly because you could not go back to the past with the knowledge from the present. But it was an interesting thought and when I got older I remembered that phrase and more than once, I wished that I could go back in time and tell my past self what I had learned so she could avoid making certain choices.

The things we secretly hope and dream of if we could just turn back time. How often have you said those words to yourself?

The relationship we would leave or would work harder to keep.

The words we would say or would keep to ourselves.

The choices we would make or avoid

What would we do if we could turn back time, go back to the past, do-over portions of our life, and especially, not make certain choices?

But while we think about these things we also know they are just pipe dreams. There is no way to turn back time, to undo what has been done, or to re-do a choice or action. The past is a fixed moment in time.

We cannot undo the past or go back to it and the only reason we would want to is because we think that somehow we could undo the lessons and experiences of the past and have a much different present. Just imagine if we had not said yes, or said no, made a different choice, or realized how important the choice we were making at that moment, which we thought was inconsequential, was actually one of the most important choices of our life.

If there is anything that is immovable, unchangeable, and set in stone in our lives, it is the past. There is nothing we can do to change what once happened but there is something we can do to change the effect the past has on our life in the present. We cannot time travel to fix the past but we can use our timelines to shift what is happening today and to create transformation. The secret to time travel, to turning back time, to knowing something new, is in understanding timelines.

Timelines are the linear expression of an energetic imprint. A timeline is the outcome of an energetic event that sets us on a specific path  and that path and its energy determines the frequency, vibration, and flow of our life’s energy and all of its connections.

The timeline continues on autopilot, sometimes like a runaway train or an avalanche that wipes out everything in its path, until we decide we have had enough of that and we want something different.

Then that timeline starts losing energy until it comes to a full stop – it has run out of energy road. And now we have two choices – to restart that time line with a rebirth (renaissance is one word people like to use) or to create a new timeline.

We can always restart an old timeline by going back to it but it doesn’t feel the same, everything is off balance and different, and we feel stuck and out of place. It’s like going back to your high school reunion and remembering all of the old battles and rivalries and realizing how much you didn’t like those people then and they are still not very nice to you. You try to talk to them and there is no energetic connection. That timeline is ended and there is no bringing it back.

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