Classification
What events from your life would you like to preserve?
Which ones can you remember? Which ones would you like to remember?
Is it possible to classify them?
It's clear that our memory sometimes plays tricks on us. It's true, it selects memories, but these are often moments we wish hadn't happened, while other happy moments slip through our fingers.
This has nothing to do with a malfunction or any malicious intent on its part. It's simply a combination of two factors: firstly, for survival purposes, our bodies flag experiences they consider painful with an alert, so, just like an email we want to highlight, they appear first.
The interesting thing is why this happens, and what it produces.
Because painful experiences are strongly linked to the emotion of pain, the brain understands that we must protect ourselves from such events as a defense mechanism, and therefore creates neural alert connections. Our mind, however, tries to understand these experiences, and if it cannot, it recreates similar scenarios in reality, forcing us to relive them again and again, like a bad dream.
It is possible to use this mechanism to our advantage, but to do so we must do a daily job of collecting data.
What are those data?
Our little list of everyday achievements. All those accomplishments, however small and insignificant they may seem to others, but which are important to us.
These are the achievements we can manually classify: simply, in a notebook or journal, intended for this purpose, we write down: -what did we do today, what makes us feel good?
This simple method allows you to reverse the automatic selection classification that, like a news report, brings up all the bad things, and the worse, the better.
You can try it, right? But I suggest that if you decide to try it, you do it every day for at least a month to notice any results.
Contraindications? None.
Primary effects? From this manual record (writing down our small or big achievements every day): a growing appreciation for all the good things we experience.
Side effects? A growing appreciation for ourselves, coupled with an increasing attraction of happy events into our lives.
Angelina Fabiola Caminos
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