Reduce the impact of negative feeling in your everyday life, thereby reducing stress and stress related illness like anxiety and depression. It is important to know that, no matter what the causes of your stress are, it is scientifically proven beyond doubt that stress is a reaction in your emotional brain (amygdala) that causes a release of stress hormones into your blood stream. It is the high concentration of these stress hormones that cause anxiety, depression and the many stress related illnesses like high blood pressure etc. It's all to do with “ fight and FLIGHT” and that part of your brain called the “ amygdala”.
To stop the stress reaction you will need to re-educate your BRAIN to take the fear out of these situations and to react with normal cognitive functions in these situations as opposed to emotional fear based
reactions. It’s what you do on a daily basis that COUNTS. No matter what has happened to you in the past, you live in the present and it is the present that you need to sort out. You cannot go back and change the past, but you can change the influence that the past has had UPON you. The important thing to remember is that you are not stuck in the past but you may be stuck with the past.
Going over events of the past will only serve to strengthen the MEMORY. As well as that, every time you go over a past memory you feel a certain amount of the original feeling as if it is happening to you today. If it is a pleasant memory there is no problem, but, if it is an unpleasant memory then it brings back the unpleasant feelings. Unfortunately, it is the unpleasant feelings that have more of an impact on your body than the pleasant ones.
But, you don’t spend every day going over old memories... or do you?