Our memories and the emotions associated with them come from different phases of our lives and influence the way we think and act.
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Most of us have already experienced situations and associated emotions in their lives, which they associate with a certain song, certain smell, etc.. If these smells or songs are heard or perceived again at another time, the associated emotions are also immediately back in our memory. These moments illustrate to us that emotions are related to our memories. They tend to develop a lot of power.
There may come a point in our lives when learned behaviors no longer serve the desired purpose in our current lives and yet are still present. This can result in an inner conflict, behavior and expressions seem confused. We feel a kind of brokenness, and every decision becomes a long, difficult process. Whereby the symptoms can make themselves felt not only mentally, but also physically.A person is not 100% one thing or the other. He has many interesting facets. You can compare your personality with a system in which many different parts are working. Each individual has its own function, view and way of communicating. For example, the inner critic is strict and wants to keep us from doing stupid things, while our adventurous side wants us to try new things and have fun. To better explain the inner dynamics of our personality, Schulz von Thun developed the metaphor of the "inner team.
Similar to a team, our personality parts have different tasks, competencies and opinions. Among them, there are parts that work less well together, such as the creative and the pragmatic, the goal-oriented and the inner pig.
​"The path to your goal begins the day you take one hundred percent responsibility for your actions."
You are NOT your just emotion
An Irish saying goes: "Tá brón orm", which means "sadness is upon me". In this case, we do not identify completely with the sadness, but see the emotion as something temporary, which bothers us at the present time, but which will also pass again.
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You are not just one emotion that you feel, but all of your parts that create emotions and reactions in you. Learn to define yourself not only by one emotion, but to recognize the origin of this emotion and to define the part of you that triggers this emotion in you. This part of you was influenced by your past experiences and stored the emotion you experienced. Every time a new experience triggers an old memory, your part of you releases the emotion you experienced then, without checking whether it still has a justification in your current reality.
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The Inner Child
The inner child is no exception. It is just as much a part of you as the inner critic or the inner pig.
The inner child is an existing idea for something we learned in our childhood and experienced as bad. It may be negative beliefs such as "I'm not good enough" or "I can't handle hurt." Maybe they are feelings of helplessness, loneliness, or being overwhelmed by certain events you experienced in childhood.
Inner children, of course, also represent playfulness, childlike joy, and a positive attitude toward yourself. So you can imagine that all that you have learned and experienced "lives on" in you in the form of the Inner Children or parts.
In hypnosis we get in direct contact with your inner child or other parts to dissolve possible negative beliefs and any other negative feeling from childhood and replace them with a feeling that is healthy for you.
Learn to understand your emotions - don't let yourself be guided by them alone. Every emotion has its justification, but now it's up to you to recognize whether it has a right to continue to be in your life, or whether it has served its purpose and you can move on and make room for something new.