Research shows how you can work with memories to change your mood and attitudes.

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Research shows how you can work with memories to change your mood and attitudes.
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Once you know how memory works, you can use representative memories, and even bring some up on purpose, to heal your stuck points and change your present-time emotional experience.

Emotional memories also create the background mood states that shape how you feel about and see the world.works, you can use these memories, and even bring some up on purpose, to heal your stuck points and change your present-time emotional experience.

As I drive to work one day, I feel this sad mood combined with thoughts of not being appreciated or celebrated. I reflect on my present context of being an established and successful professor and psychologist and I wonder where this negative mood state and thought of not being celebrated comes from—how it sticks to me like glue across long durations of time and pollutes my present experience.

But we don’t have to be stuck with recurrent themes like this, because memories, and the mood states associated with them, can change. Memory is very fallible, and a large body of research shows that it is notoriously inaccurate., “New information, new ideas, new thoughts, suggestive information, misinformation can enter people's conscious awareness and cause a contamination, a distortion, an alteration in memory.

I visualize my adult self as a caring person who cherishes and celebrates the child. I could imagine him seeing me there at his birthday party and knowing how special he is and how much I love him. I could imagine him happy and full of hope on his fifth birthday.

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