There are certain memories that are so painful that you wish you could forget about them forever. What if this was possible?
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There is no way to delete the memories. Best you can do it to create new ones that are far better than the previous ones. This way you would be healed as well as realise that past was not that beautiful as you thought. Travelling new places help you learn more about yourself. It helps you as you talk to new people, learn things about new culture, Learn new perspective of looking at things. All these will lead to creation of memories for you. Create so much of the new memories that the pile is so huge for older ones that they cannot push through.
You can start taking an interest in different things, and the painful memory will fade. Another part is – how many times you recollect the same thought? If you remember the memory daily; then it will never die away. You have to manage your attention. Make sure that you don’t let your attention go to a painful memory, if it goes, you bring it back on something else. If you control your attention, gradually the memory will cease, and only a structure of memory will remain with no content. That means no bad feelings but an outline of the event. After a while, eve outline can vanish.