I am trying to resolove a memory from my one year old selfs point of view. I have a fairly clear depiction of the sequence of events and I and can even bring forward the emotions that went with it but can not completly feel them, they are coming across as words with the usual atachments of emotions that go with them. However saying the word and feelilng the emotion that goes with it is not the same as feeling the emotion of the event. Make any sense?  Even though I have tried to allowed myself to be her and can see some events through her eyes (some of the sequence I see as myself looking on). I seem to be not allowing myself the feel the emotions.  I feel that I need to tie together the event with the emotions and feel them so I can move forward. I am looking for some sound advice.

Thank you in advance, Stacy

Get thee to a hypnotist.....

:) love, blink

So you are saying you feel like you have some clear memory of a sequence of events but you'd like to be able to re-live the memory of the emotions you remember going through?  

I'm not sure if this would work, but you could try to analyze your memories as if they were a dream sequence.  Analyze them the same way you would a dream, using whatever process you use for dreams.  If you don't have experience doing that, one good method is to take something that sticks out in your memory and ask it a question, and then you speak for it as if it were giving you the answer.  Even if it is an object, like a chair for instance, ask it a question like, what are you doing, what are you feeling, anything like that.  It sounds pretty silly but you'd be surprised at the answers you find yourself giving!  The answers come out naturally and in them you find something out that you didn't know.  

I hope that makes sense.  

Hi Daisymae-

If you'd like to do this yourself, be your own hypnotist. Otherwise make certain that your hired hypnotist has some kind of training in regression.

You are quite correct that the verbal and cognitive reconstruction of an event rarely "feels the same" as the event. This is due to distortions in the way we internally code for memory. To return to the same emotional level it is necessary to relax away the inhibiting factors (desire, fear, confusion etc) and then recall the event on a more or less pictorial level, because at that time you had minimal language. What you can expect is a series of images that are poorly connected, but that carry the flow of the event.

Somewhere on my web site mbs-hypnoclinic.com I have a brief set of instructions for hypnotic regression. There's also a booklet available from Lulu with similar information. The process is simple, get a good and trusted friend to give you the instructions for relaxation. Practice a couple of times just relaxing and returning to normal function. Then the third time, your friend can suggest that you return to a few moments BEFORE the event, and to watch it happen. That way you don't have to buck a tide of opinions after the fact.

Having mastered that procedure, literally "going into trance", you'll notice that all the hypnotic talk etc is window dressing, and all you need to do is to simply relax away all the stuff of the world. That means that you learn self-hypnosis as a side effect, and, since hypnosis is only meditation, you have developed a meditative skill.  You are now ready to continue with Bruce's regime of  soul rescues, if that appeals, since that seems to be the best presently available path to increased spiritual competency.

Hope this is useful-
dave