Memories give us our identity. They shape our character and represent who we are, where we came from, and how far we’ve traveled. They become the standard by which we measure whether we’ve achieved something in life—or not.
Memories influence whether we smile when we look back—or tremble with fear and pain as if the event were happening right now.
Very often our memories are the foundation that feeds our problems and blocks personal growth. That’s why changing our memories is so important if we want to succeed in life.
The subconscious mind is the vault of memories. Different combinations of memories form the basis of our specific traits and habits—and they don’t have to make logical sense.
It’s crucial to know the subconscious mind does not think logically. It builds its structures on experience rather than on reason and linear logic.
Consider this example:
Pavel is five years old, in a dreamy, relaxed state. He’s watching his favorite TV show—there’s a clown on the screen—and he’s not aware of anything around him. Suddenly, he hears his mother shouting at a sibling and his body jolts into shock. His brain immediately signals his organs to release the chemicals of threat, and his body flips into high alert.
Pavel’s subconscious makes an automatic link between danger and its source. Since his conscious mind can’t pinpoint where the threat came from—and because all his attention was on the clown—his subconscious pairs “danger” with “clown.”
Now, whenever Pavel sees a clown, his body reenters a threat state and he bursts into tears. His parents have no idea what’s happening or how their child could suddenly be terrified by clowns. As Pavel grows, his conscious mind understands clowns won’t hurt him, but he still can’t help feeling afraid in their presence.
Years later, his conscious mind naturally forgets the original event that triggered it all, but the memory is stored in his subconscious. Consciously, he concludes he has a strange clown phobia and does everything he can to avoid clowns.
Another child, of course, might not form the same danger–clown link. Each of us is different and builds different associations. It all depends on the emotional state in the moment, the intensity of the feelings (fear, anger, and shock are the strongest), and what happened afterward.
In Pavel’s case we can trace a kind of logic (the events tie to clowns), yet there can be other memories that belong to the structure of the problem while having nothing to do with clowns directly. That’s why we don’t consciously understand these links. The good news is that with FasterEFT (now called Eutaptics) you don’t need to understand the logic. You can target the problem by noticing how you feel.
For instance, as an older teen Pavel is sitting in a park reading a breakup text from his girlfriend. Out of the corner of his eye he catches an image of a clown on a passing car. His conscious mind doesn’t register it—he’s focused on the pain—but his subconscious pairs that pain with what it glimpsed.
As you can see, the possibilities are endless. Trying to hunt down every single memory in the entire structure is impossible. The only effective, fastest way to dismantle the structure is to begin with the earliest reference to how Pavel knows he has this “clown problem.”
He likely won’t recall the original incident or logically trace all the supporting memories, so he starts with the earliest memory he can access where he felt fear of clowns—and he changes that memory.
Why Change Memories?
The simple answer: “To gain peace and happiness…” To be free. If you could go back and transform a traumatic event into a positive one, would you? Your subconscious operates according to what it believes is true. When you recode traumatic memories into positive ones, the way your subconscious reads that memory changes—and that, in turn, changes your life.
Changing a memory is like entering a new destination into your GPS. It lets your subconscious plot a better route toward your personal growth—aligned with what you truly want. So Pavel won’t shake with fear when he sees a clown anymore. Clowns will appear funny to him, because his subconscious is now driving different feelings.
If you use FasterEFT (Eutaptics) techniques to remove the emotional charge from a memory, you’ll often notice the memory begins to change by itself. You may not need to force it. As you work with it, what used to bother you—images, sounds, sensations—starts to shift. Look at the facial expressions in your memories and notice how, as you process, those expressions begin to change on their own.
Now that you know the power of changing memories—and the effect it can have on your life—choose one memory and try the process. Over time you’ll be amazed by the transformations this brings to your everyday being.