Healing Trauma How Do You Erase or Change Memories?
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Jun 3, 2024 Exploring the science and philosophy behind altering traumatic memories, discussing therapeutic approaches like memory reconsolidation and the limitations of methods like extinction. Emphasizing the importance of embracing memories rather than avoiding them, and the transformative power of memory reconciliation in healing past traumas
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Changing Your Relationship with Memories
- Consider how to change your relationship with distressing memories.
- Avoiding painful memories can create more problems than it solves.
Avoidance Restricts Your Life
- Avoiding things like traumatic memories shrinks your comfortable operating space.
- Our brains associate things, leading avoidance to expand to related areas.
Changing Memories
- You can change your relationship with distressing events and the feelings around them.
- It's also possible to change the emotional impact of the memory itself.