Last update: July 09, 2015
Childhood is a privilege of old age. I don't know why I remember it more clearly now than it ever was.
Mario Benedetti
Since we were born, we internalize and learn everything that is happening around us. While no one knows exactly what a newborn baby feels like, that doesn't mean they aren't experiencing feelings and emotions. Long before verbal language, the human being knows emotional language and this is what allows us to understand what a newborn baby likes or dislikes.. Similarly, the child understands what the feelings and emotions of the people around him are.
From birth, we are building our inner world from what we receive from the outside world.
Everything we receive, from an early age, generates emotions in us which, based on their impact, will remain indelible in our subconscious forever..
How do emotions affect?
Emotions have a certain influence on us according to their impact, that is, according to the degree and type of emotions we experience.
In turn, the memories of life always depend on the emotions they generated and for this reason they are kept as memories over time.
The emotional impact depends on the activation of a part of the brain, "the emotional brain", based on the importance of the emotion for the adult person, child or infant.
There is a positive emotional impact, that is, those facts or situations that generate pleasant sensations in us. Although, without a shadow of a doubt, there are others that trigger unpleasant feelings, evoking strong emotions and inevitably leaving an imprint in our brain..
After leaving a trace, the emotion that marked us generates feelings throughout our life, in certain situations that remind our brain of the unpleasant experience we have lived.
Where are the emotional traces kept?
The childhood emotional traces are preserved in the subconscious.
This is why most of the time we cannot explain why we feel bad in a certain situation or why we feel fear or feel stuck in front of a person or circumstance.
The explanation is well hidden from the conscious mind, but there are still emotionally unpleasant experiences that warn us when there is the risk of reliving them.. It is an automatic activation that generates fear, block, insecurity and malaise. However, our subconscious mind knows the hidden explanation for all our reactions.
How to erase the emotional traces?
In many cases, working therapeutically with the present and with a person's conscience may be sufficient, as it strengthens and rebuilds aspects of the personality debilitated by childhood.
However, in other cases it is necessary to use a therapeutic technique to access a person's subconscious and reconstruct the damage caused by situations and experiences lived in childhood or years ago, even if the person is not aware of it..
For this reason, among the many therapies, hypnosis is very effective, because, in a trance state, it allows you to heal, rebuild and repair the pain caused and stored in the emotional brain.
The most used procedures are:
- Reaching the interior of the child to make him stronger and give him the love and affection he may lack.
- Rebuild the situation in which he experienced the pain.
- Visualize the strategies and skills to deal with the situations he has so far avoided.
- Learn behaviors and skills to overcome the past and grow.
