Memory is associated with past event. Go beyond your memories for a better future.

Your memory is your mental movie. Your history and your past are stored and organized in your brain.

Your memory surface when you recall or re-experience a previous event, a particular person, period or subject.

The remembered event is intertwined with emotions, motives and passions.

A specific action that you have performed is imprinted and is encoded. Your present experience if left to chance, is an extension of your past.

Everyone has good and bad memories. How and what you recall makes the difference in your experience, feelings and behavior.

You may forget an event because you do not want to go back and re-experience a state if it makes you feel bad.

In recalling and reproducing the same mental picture, you will have the same psychological response as with the actual event or situation.

Your current problems are related to the association of past painful memories into your present life.

How you remember your childhood could have led you to behave in a certain manner in your adult life.

A large part of your now experiences depend on the pictures and meanings you have stored in your brain. And you live a life between the past and the future.

When you recall the past the way it happened, you will re-experience the event with the same feelings and response.

Re-accessing it by changing the contents will help you construct a different future.

When you immersed yourself back into a past emotional response, you will relieve the experience exactly at the time it actually happened.

You could scan through your list and pick the resourceful and positive ones to improve your motivation.

Deleting negative memories may seem far-fetched. But editing it is possible and within your control.

You can edit a memory by removing the emotion attached to it. Or you could reframe the movie and create a new meaning to it.

One of the methods to consciously detach yourself from a hurtful picture of the past is to disassociate from the mental pictures.

When you see a picture from the past, do you see yourself in it?

If you don't, you are still associating yourself with the event. You will tend to have the same emotions as you did then.

It is useful to keep your loving memories and pleasant experiences this way.

But there is no point in keeping intensely unpleasant experience and allowing it to have control over your future.

You can deliberately step inside your mental picture. When you can see yourself in it, you can observe it as an outsider.

Mentally push the picture further, remove the colors and turn off any audible sound.

The original emotion will change and you will create a new meaning and that will affect your present approach in life.

Without the emotion, the memory carries with it a different meaning.

You have to let go, break the bonds of the past and go beyond your memories in order to move forward.

You need to make a different choice and loosen yourself from being trapped to your history and start new patterns of thinking.

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