Step 11
How to Rewrite the Past and Terminate the Pain:
Memory Reconsolidation
The “Re-living” Technique:
Why the Brain Allows You to Modify Memories and How to Disable Trauma Triggers
Our memory stores more than just happy moments. Deep within, like painful splinters, sit dozens or even hundreds of “negative episodes” from our past: moments of humiliation, resentment, fear, awkwardness, and childhood trauma.
We try not to think about them. But they don't simply vanish. They continue to exist in our subconscious like small “ghosts,” and at the most inconvenient moments, they “pull the strings,” forcing us to re-experience the same old, agonizing negative emotions.
But what if you didn't have to run from these ghosts? What if you could meet them face-to-face? What if there were a technique that allowed you to “re-live” an old situation—but this time from the vantage point of your current strength and experience—thereby “healing” the memory and stripping it of its power over your life?
