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Question:
Hello, i have a simple and
straightforward question: is it possible, through hypnosis, to delete
completely and permanently part of one's past from memory?
Thank you for your answer.
Answer:
Dear Jane, i could straightforwardly
answer you no. But that would not be the truth, because the truth is
way more complicated than that.
I will explain better: when we -as
human beings- have to face very stressful situations, our nervous
system fixes these times in our memory, and they often become knots
of anxiety and distress.
This means that, in some unfortunate
cases, we are forced to live always focusing on these chunks of
memory; this causes us to suffer, and gives us the feeling that time
never passed, and that our future will not exist. Always remember
that this experience is only determined by the way our minds work,
and it is not reality.
What i just described you is what who
suffers from a condition called “Post-traumatic stress disorder”
experiences usually. As you can imagine, this kind of disorder is
particularly constraining, because the subject perceives time as in a
story that never ends and always comes back to the starting point.
What can be done? The answer is clear:
it is not possible to delete memories, but it is possible to
reallocate those memories within a story that is able to create an
evolutionary patch in the subject's experience.
In order to achieve this, hypnosis is a
valuable tool, because through the alteration of the state of
consciousness of the subject, it is possible to modify the emotional
answer to certain memories, so to give back to the subject a feeling
of control over his reality.
Dear Jane, I do not know what happened
to you, but what i can tell you as a psychotherapist is that what you
are living right now is only part of a narrative structure that caged
you in a game without end, a tale that loops taking away your ability
to make projects for the future.
I will conclude quoting an ancient
Greek philosopher, Epictetus, in the hope that will bring you some
hope: “Not things, but opinions about things, trouble men.”
Good luck.
Answer:
Paolo Chellini, Psychotherapist
Question:
Jane, 25 years old
Publication Date: 03/19/2008
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