In your mind imagine it not simply wiped out, but replaced by another event of more beneficial nature. Pretend a particular event happened that greatly disturbed you. By changing this past in your mind, now, in your present, you can change not only its nature but its effect, and not only upon yourself but upon others.
You can theoretically alter your own past as you have known it, for time is no more something divorced from you than probabilities are. To dwell upon the possibility of illness or disaster is equally poor policy, for you set up negative webs of probabilities that need not occur. The concentration can allow greater bleed-through and adverse identification, because that part will be one background that you have in common with any probable selves who sprang from that particular source. It is very poor policy to dwell negatively on unpleasant aspects of the past that you know, because some portions of the probable self may still be involved in that past. You would learn the instrument far quicker, you see, if the impulse was originating with a probable self It goes without saying then that probable selves exist in your 'future' as well as your past.
I am not telling you to run off and buy one, but you could however act on the impulse as far as is reasonably possible - renting a violin, simply acquainting yourself with violin concerto, etc. Such an impulse could be an indication that another probable portion of your identity is gifted with that instrument. You may know absolutely nothing about music, for example, and one afternoon while in the middle of some mundane activity be struck by a sudden impulse to buy a violin. These can often offer clues of various kinds. The connections make for quite constant 'bleed-throughs.' Once you are aware of the probable system, however, you will also learn to become alert to what I will here call 'benign intrusive impulses.' Such impulses would seem to be disconnected from your own current interests or activities intrusive in that they come quickly into consciousness, with a sense of strangeness as if they are not your own. Because you are involved in an intricate psychological gestalt such as this, and because the connections mentioned earlier do exist, you can avail yourself to some extent of abilities and knowledge possessed by these other probable portions of your personality. One event can be actualized by more than one probable self, however, and you will resemble some probable selves more than others.
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