Hello,
If you're obsessed with negative or anxiety-provoking memories, then most likely, there's a lot of you stuck in the past. These adverse reactions are your brain's alarm systems letting you know that there are holes in the way you're looking at the world and won't allow you to forget about them. Your body is still reacting as if there's an emergency.
For example, when your smoke detector goes off, it isn't relevant whether or not it was your fault. The smoke detector says, "The house is on fire!" and that's a bad thing. Your anxiety systems are like that. If they're tagging old memories with anxiety, you have to do something about it. Or you will be tortured by those memories forever because that's how the alarm system works.
To explore your traumatic memories, you need to write down everything you remember about the trauma. Organize it, reduce it and make it clear. You weave it into a narrative and strip the emotion out of it while you're doing that because you start to understand what happened.
American Social Psychologist, James Pennebaker, tested this. He had people write about their traumatic experiences, which usually made them feel worse for two weeks afterwards. But six months later, they had visited the physicians far less frequently.
We developed the self-authoring suite over 10 years ago. It was specifically designed to help individuals rectify their past memories and build their ideal future.
The Full Self Authoring Suite is now available for $29.99, which includes a free second copy for a friend.
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