emotional-baggage-david-wygantThe term “emotional baggage” makes you think of a suitcase, doesn’t it?

There have even been jokes about it.

Some of us think that we have baggage that only fits in the overhead compartment on an airplane.

Some of us have baggage that needs to be checked in.

Some of us have baggage that’s over 50 pounds and you’re charged $75 per bag. We like to use that term because we like to truly believe that all of our emotional issues can fit neatly in a Samsonite suitcase.

But I’m going to crush that thought right now.

Your baggage is not really baggage.

It’s all just a bunch of stories.

Your stories actually can fit neatly on an iPad and an MP3.

You can actually carry these stories in your iPhone.

You can write these stories to me on a notepad.

They are not the kind of baggage that can actually be put in a suitcase. You’re carrying a story inside your brain, inside your subconscious mind every single day.

The story that you carry in your subconscious mind is the reason why you’re not able to approach men.

It’s the reason why you’re not able to have an orgasm.

It’s the reason why you’re not able to get intimate and look in the eyes of your lover directly.

It’s the reason why you feel like you’re not worthy of love.

It’s the reason why you feel like you can never get a break.

See, your stories fit neatly inside your head and play back to you like an iPod on repeat.

Some of our stories are so old we’ve kept them since birth.

And a lot of these stories aren’t even yours—they’re your mother’s or your father’s stories that they have basically been given to you.

So what’s your story? What are you fears?

Let’s bust through those fears right now because that’s what we do here.

We take those little MP3 files and we neatly drag them to the trashcan, and then we hit empty trash.

Because that’s what it’s all about:

It’s about emptying your hard drive every single day, and removing the old stories that just slow us down.