Take the emotional sting out of certain memories with this simple NLP technique:
- Turn your memory into a flat 2D image – like a picture in a book. Make it black and white. Put a picture frame around it. Hang it on the wall. Why not hang it upside down? Or at a silly angle? What would it look like if it were all in cartoon?
- In your mind, play some silly music. Change the voices into Donald Duck, or some other amusing voice, until it makes you laugh or starts to tickle your funny bone.
- Feel how flat you have made the memory now.
- Lastly, make a new picture of how you want to be/feel and over impose this new wonderful you in front of the picture of you smiling.