| Positive Thinking isn't a Wound Dressing | | | | that causes feelings that are re-felt every time the |
| If you have some terrible memories of relationship | | | | thought or memory replays. The repeating of that |
| problems, failure on tests, or a critical parent, these | | | | loop re-enforces the attachment of the feeling. If |
| are wounds. These are memories of events that | | | | you can think positive thoughts, reducing the |
| happened repeatedly. Certainly there are memories | | | | opportunity of that memory to arise, you will |
| of events even worse than these which I won't | | | | gradually weaken the bio-feedback loop. But, this is |
| mention here. But, if they happened to you, you | | | | the slow and arduous way to do this. |
| know what I'm talking about. I am talking now of | | | | Clearing Methods to Change Thinking |
| emotional wounds, not bruises or scratches. | | | | The Sedona Method and the Work both utilize a |
| Neither these wounds, nor the feelings attached to | | | | particular thought process or series of questions that |
| these wounds can be healed or corrected using | | | | help you change the thoughts attached to a memory. |
| positive thinking or NLP. NLP can help because it will | | | | As the Sedona says, any feeling that is not peace or |
| teach you how to make the memory of the event, | | | | love needs to be cleared. Even feelings that we think |
| each time it comes up, smaller and darker and less | | | | of as good, such as "pride" affect our ability to |
| generative of emotions. But, smaller and darker is not | | | | clearly operate in space/time. They cause us to want |
| gone. | | | | to attach to them, or to want to control life so that |
| Let's face it. The worst childhood memory is painful, | | | | we can hold on to them. |
| not because of the pain it caused, but because of | | | | For example, lets say your team wins some playoff |
| the memory attached to it. The fact and the thought | | | | event. Now, there will be the final event, and you will |
| that life is good now, has never helped anyone with | | | | want to win that as well. If you win the final, then |
| severe childhood abuse. | | | | there will be another season. Or, if you have just |
| Painful Thoughts | | | | aged out or retired or changed school, you will want |
| Any victim of child abuse realizes that the wounds, | | | | to find a way to repeat that win, or you will look for |
| the broken bones or the scars have healed. The | | | | opportunities to replay that win in your mind, and the |
| physical body is no longer in pain. Yet, it is still painful | | | | feelings attached to it. |
| when those memories come up. | | | | The only way to give up all perceived need to |
| A soldier will be having a great time with his family or | | | | control, is to give up all attachments to feelings, both |
| friends, but if there is a noise outside, or a person | | | | good and bad. |
| walking nearby in a way that reminds him of war, his | | | | What is the advantage of clearing all feelings? You |
| face changes, his body language changes and his | | | | are in the now. When you are in the now, you are |
| mood changes. There was no danger, but he is | | | | healthy. When you are trying to control life, you are |
| physically and mentally ready for action. | | | | asking for illness, suffering and pain -- because that is |
| What causes these things? Thoughts. | | | | what you fear. |
| The thoughts and memories of past pain or | | | | What we fear about, comes about. |
| embarrassment are attached to a bio-feedback loop | | | | |