Why heal the past?

“Unless we can release our past, it is held in our body cells – it has a relentless effect on our body chemistry, perhaps eventually causing a real health problem. If unresolved emotions or feelings are not cleared, they continue to affect our lives – our relationships, our performance at work, our feelings about ourselves. Most of these unresolved feelings relate to events from when we were young – they can be events that seem trivial when viewed from the adult, rational mind but to our younger selves they might have been traumatic, inducing fear, pain, guilt or low self-esteem that we continue to live with at some level for the rest of our lives.” Caroline Myss, PhD