Go Back in Time to Guide the Younger You
by Bruce Kasanoff
In her new book, Have a Nice Disclosure, Julia Mossbridge, MA, PhD mentions a practice called Time Travel Therapy, which Israeli psychologists developed as a healing tool for soldiers suffering from PTSD.
The idea is that you imagine the old you at a very difficult time, and you send that version of you unconditional love. You literally surround the old you with love. You then use everything you have learned in the years since then to share wisdom with the old you. Tell them what they need to know, and tell them that in the years ahead, they will thrive.
Julia says this approach worked for the soldiers and that it can work for you.
Then, an instinct rose up inside of me…
What if some of the best ideas, hunches and survival strategies across the span of my life... came from me? From the future me.
The more I practice Time Travel Therapy, the better my entire life could be… and my impact on the world.
If so, my job is to send ideas, tips and unconditional love back in time to the old me.
Which raises the possibility that the old me has already benefitted from messages from the future me… that I have yet to send.
Which means I need to do it. Now.
The same may be true for you.
I have had numerous moments in my life when I suddenly knew what to do. Many such times, my knowing was contradictory to logic and “being realistic.”
This could explain why.
Best of all, this is a strategy with absolutely zero downside. If you imagine sending unconditional love and wisdom back to a previous version of you, the worst that can happen is that you fill the present you with unconditional love and wisdom. Even if it doesn’t work, you still benefit.
And if consciousness does work this way? You’ll heal trauma and uplift all versions of yourself across time.
To get back to Julia’s book, it is quite unique, very short, and arguably an amazing source of priceless wisdom. But you have to be ready for it. This isn’t much like anything you’ve read before.
