Hi all,

I'm practicing to take any negative thoughts and make the visual black and white, shrink it really small. I do notice a shift in the energy. I've read that you can then put a positive image in the spot where the negative memory was. Does this have to be a positive real memory or can you take the negative scenario and recreate an imaginary positive memory.

And, how do you do this if there is no visual aspect? For example, this friend upsets me sometimes but it's multiple things that combine into a general feeling. I can put an image of her face in my mind but I don't know if that is right.

Thanks guys.

Magnatolia wrote:

Hi all,

I'm practicing to take any negative thoughts and make the visual black and white, shrink it really small. I do notice a shift in the energy. I've read that you can then put a positive image in the spot where the negative memory was. Does this have to be a positive real memory or can you take the negative scenario and recreate an imaginary positive memory.

You can replace with a positive memory or recreate an imaginative positive memory the former is easier to implement because it is a real positive memory and latter is just a bit more involved because you need to create the memory and all the associated good feelings that went with it.

Magnatolia wrote:

And, how do you do this if there is no visual aspect? For example, this friend upsets me sometimes but it's multiple things that combine into a general feeling. I can put an image of her face in my mind but I don't know if that is right.

Thanks guys.

I wonder is it that there is no visual or that you are just not aware of the visual because you are running the process so fast? Here is where you can get a bit creative, who says that it has to be one image of this friend? I would build a collage of images and/or animate them into a short movie then add in the good feelings maybe even see yourself with her enjoying fun times then switch to seeing through your own eyes having fun times with your friend. It will hopefully give your unconscious the message "generalise this"

Jason

Magnatolia wrote:

I've read that you can then put a positive image in the spot where the negative memory was. Does this have to be a positive real memory or can you take the negative scenario and recreate an imaginary positive memory.

I would not recommend replacing a memory at all. I would strongly recommend learning from them. I've found that they lose their insistence on being remembered if you do.

Shrinking the images, draining their color, dissociating... they are all ways of "unplugging" from the emotional attachment one has to a memory. It's a good start. It makes it easier to pull useful information from it.

And, how do you do this if there is no visual aspect? For example, this friend upsets me sometimes but it's multiple things that combine into a general feeling. I can put an image of her face in my mind but I don't know if that is right.

It's no one thing she does that you find upsetting, but it's a sequence of things, yes?

If you step back a bit and examine those instances, you may notice a pattern. Maybe you see her with a certain facial expression, then you hear her say something in a particular tone, then you see something else, and so on. Look for the pattern. Start from the upset feeling and work backward; you'll remember it more accurately that way.

Once you have the pattern, you can interrupt it and redirect it.

Thanks for the replies. I don't think there's anything to learn from it other than to diminish the negative emotion attached to it so I can more clearly decide what action I want to take. And allow myself to rewrite the belief that caused it so I basically replace it with a new more empowering belief.