Do you have any unhappy memories from your past? Most of us do, yet most of us carry them around with us our whole lives, thinking they are set in stone. The good news is that they are anything but. It's actually fairly straightforward and simple to reach back into your past and change your memories so they don't bother you in the present.
To start with, memory if even the most simplest things is much weaker than most people imagine. Have you ever been totally sure of something, so much you'd stake a lot of money on it, only to find out later that you were completely wrong? Most of us have.
They've even done experiments on college students to prove this.A professor would be lecturing, and a "thief" would come in and steal his bag from his desk. Later, when they talked to all the students separately, how they described the "thief" was extremely contradictory. White, Black, Asian, Hispanic, wearing a hood, not wearing a hood. It was a good thing that the "thief" was in on the experiment, otherwise the cops would have had nothing to go on.
It stands to reason then that any memories you may have from your past that are limiting you aren't altogether accurate. And this is good news, since once you change them, they won't bother you any more.
Here's one way to change them. Simply sit back, take a deep breath, let it out slowly, relax, close your eyes, and think of a memory you'd like to change. Watch the memory from a neutral, third party position. As if you are some ghost from the future who has come back to watch the past.
Once you see the events that have unfolded, simply give them several different meanings. The more different meanings you can think of, the better. When you find one that doesn't sound so personal, and sounds halfway believable. Move on to the next step.
The next step is to replay the events again, in your mind, except this time, go into your old self, and witness the events from the first person, only give them the new meaning as they are happening. It helps to do this a couple times with a few different meanings.
Later on, when you go into a situation which used to give you trouble, your mind will automatically go back to that situation, and find several different interpretations of those events, and you don't feel any limitations any more. This may sound complicated at first, but once you do it a few times, it will get easier and easier. Pretty soon, life will look better than ever.
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