Every person has heavy memories from the past from which I would like to get rid of.
Unpleasant events and negative experience provoke depressive states, prevent from moving further and cost harmonious relationships with others.
Is it possible snatch pages from the book of memoryto start all over again without a heavy load of memories?
Is it possible to erase the memory of a person?
Memory is brain property, thanks to which data is recorded, stored and reproduced.
In this case, the human brain is poorly understood.
Despite the huge amount of research and experience, science still cannot clearly explain the principle of memory.
Accordingly, the methods of partial or complete "removal" of memories are unpredictable and cannot be recommended as a solution to the problem.
A person can really lose memory. This phenomenon is called "amnesia" and in medicine it is considered not an independent disease, but a symptom of any abnormalities in the body.
Occurs as a result of damage to the brain areas responsible for storing data. Reasons can act:
- head injuries;
- insufficient blood supply to the brain;
- poisoning (with alcohol, heavy metals, chemicals and drugs);
- severe mental shocks / injuries (removal of heavy memories in this case is a protective mechanism of the brain).
In this way catalysts of complete or partial amnesia can be divided into two groups: external (injuries, poisonings, etc.) and internal (a protective reaction of the brain, as a result of which bad and difficult memories are removed or replaced by less painful ones).
External catalysts can not be predicted, cause enormous damage to mental and physical health, and can also be fatal.
And internal catalysts to some extent reflect the potential of the human brain and give hope that with certain efforts the process of memory loss can be made controlled.
What ways are there?
Methods of artificial forgetting in science are called "Reconsolidation". These include:
- hypnotic effect;
- NLP programming;
- creating fake memories;
- chemical exposure.
Hypnosis
Psychological correction using hypnosis is based on natural human ability to process information and strive with the harmonization of mental health.
When a person is confronted with traumatic situations, the brain is not always able to process information at the neurophysiological level. This leads to psychological problems.
The brain hides information in the "black box", but at the same time constantly comes back to herwithout being able to work with it in the classic information processing version.
Hypnotist removes installations and blocks that prevent work with traumatic memories. He “puts pressure on the sick” so that the brain adapts the existing images.
Memory, as a flexible system, creates new memories of your experiences. As a result, information that used to be an “open wound” and caused emotional pain turns into experience and may be forgotten.
NLP programming
Neuro-linguistic programming is a branch of psychology that studies opportunities to influence memories, will and opinion person
Exposure occurs through special psycho-techniques or “exercises”. Exercises help to process information and assimilate it in a new way, removing not the memory itself, but the accompanying emotional experiences and images.
Substitute Memories
Replacing or false memories occur constantly. The brain can generate them yourselftrying to recreate the missing details of the picture. But false memories can be grafted from outside.
The mechanism of implanting substitute memories is described by Karl Sagan in his book “A World Full of Demons: Science is Like a Candle in Darkness.”
The main task of the specialist in the process of implantation of new memories - make the most out of fantasy, blurring the boundaries between memory and imagination. It is easiest to instill false memories in trusting and easily suggestible people.
Chemical exposure
Chemical exposure - dangerous weapon in the fight with traumatic memories.
It is impossible to influence with the help of drugs directly on the memory.
In any case, chemicals affect the mechanisms of the brain as a whole.
Memory pills interfere with the "work" of the enzyme protein kinase, which is responsible for the field of memories. As a result, neural connections are weakened and the ability to hold information in the head is lost.
Speaking of memory erasing substances, you can use narcotic substance as an example. scopolamine. He provokes reconsolidation only during reception.
A person under the influence of a drug is susceptible to any suggestions.
In practice, scopolamine is used in medicine (antidepressant, soothing and preparation for the preparation of anesthesia), as well as in the criminal environment (to control the victims and witnesses).
How to lose memory at home?
In order to erase memory at home, you can use simple exercises from the field of NLP and psychology. Achieve a pronounced effect will only happen if:
- a person is easily suggestible;
- traumatic memories are insignificant (just an unpleasant experience or event, rather than a traumatic moment);
- man proceeds to exercise without bias.
In the case of mental disorders arising on the background of heavy memories, it is better to turn to experts, because home practice can only aggravate the situation.
For a while
The best way to temporarily get rid of obsessive memories - load the nervous system.
You can do extreme sports, go on a trip with friends, visit the legendary "scary" places, take on responsible tasks at work.
Brain will overloaded with emotions and new information. He will be forced to assimilate new data and temporarily displace the old information "at the back of the memory."
Forever and ever
In order to permanently remove a fragment of memories, you need to work it out.
So a person, telling a terrible story several times in a row, subsequently does not find it so terrible.
And then she seems to him boring and devoid of emotions. So it is with memories. As long as we forbid ourselves to return to them and thoroughly disassemble, they appear before us in nightmarish images.
But it is worth scrolling an unpleasant situation or event in the head, viewing them from different angles, and the look will change dramatically.
Special exercises
"Rite"
The essence of the exercise is to get rid of bad memories in the form of a rite. A person responds well to various psychological anchors created by psychotechnics.
- 1 Option. Wash off memories by pouring water over yourself. It is necessary to present a negative experience in the form of dirt or dust adhering to the body. In the process, water washes away all this dirt, freeing the mind.
If the fantasy is developed well enough, the technique will help to completely get rid of worries about negative experiences.
- Option 2. Burn the memories, pre-writing them on a piece of paper. It is better to paint an event or situation in as much detail as possible in order to draw the emotions out. Then it will be easier to remove them due to the visual range of human actions.
- 3 Option. You can bury the memories in the event that there is any thing associated with a negative event. In this case, you can arrange an improvised funeral for this thing, mentally linking and burying with it all the negative emotions.
"Perception"
We need to remember the events as a fragment from the moviei.e. watching him from the side.
Now you can proceed:
- scroll through the situation in your head, trying on the role of each participant in the event;
- scroll through the situation in your head as if you are watching what is happening through the TV screen, changing the playback speed from the minimum to the maximum;
- "Paint" the picture, watching it in green, red, blue;
- increase and decrease the size of people participating in the dialogues.
All this will help to reduce the significance of the event and the individual people involved in the situation.
How to get rid of unpleasant memories?
You can erase a person and events from memory even at the household level. The memory is formed from the images and the elements around us.
Example: A man does not just remember going to the movies. He remembers the smell of popcorn, the smile of the controller, the plot of the film, the laughter of the child sitting next to him, the muffled light, etc.
All this forms a solid memory of the event. If a make out a memorable day into its componentsand forget some of them, the memory will lose clarity and brightness.
So you need to remove all things and elements that are reminiscent of an event or person.
Here you have to go from just to difficult.
First remove all obvious hooks.: correspondence in social networks and objects directly related to the incident, photos and other "artifacts".
After that, we delete the emotional component: perfume, music, clothes and other attributes that can push on memories of what happened.
Regardless of what events occurred in life, it is important to accept reality and live on.
After all humility helps to let go of the situation and not to return to it again and again, diligently trying to run away from difficult memories.
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