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PAINFUL MEMORIES - HOW THEY GET REGISTERED

Painful memories get registered because you need to learn lessons. You need to update yourself, you need to develop yourself. Maybe for that reason you start recording the painful memories. When you refer to them again and again, it becomes a painful memory itself! Memories that you record in your system are not wholly true. You record only what you need.

Also, you don't need to renounce them. Whenever you try to renounce them, you actually strengthen the memory. You don't need to create a law for yourself that you should not refer to your memory either, because by your sheer unclutched nature, you will forget it the next moment. It will simply disappear! For example, the moment you decide to stand up, you renounce the decision to sit. Am I right? You are constantly renouncing. So if you allow the process to happen, your painful memories will simply disappear. But by consciously trying to renounce them, you only strengthen them further. They are strengthened when you try to renounce them. People come and tell me that they constantly repeat positive affirmations such as, 'I should stop smoking, I should stop smoking,' but it is not working. Why?' All these creative visualizations create only more and more trouble. Because in the very words, 'I should stop smoking,' the word 'smoking' is there as a contradicting word. You are not only empowering 'I shoud not', you are also empowering 'smoking'. That is why by repeating this so called affirmation you are unable to quit smoking!