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2.3 Use image resource: Association-Dissociation
It's a well known fact that our present behaviour is often linked to
negative experiences in your past. You have written your
autobiography and carefully isolated the unpleasant events. Now,
you will neutralize these negative experiences.
Just as you wipe data from your computer’s hard disk, removing
unnecessary programs, you should wipe your subconscious,
removing all the memories of negative experiences.
The first step is to relax. Consequently, do the three sequence of the
former exercise. When you are fully relaxed, you imagine a mental
screen just like a television screen.
Imagine that you Turn on your screen just like a television and relive
the negative experience. Vision the image of the experience and
relive your painful feelings (humiliation, shame, rage). In this state,
you are fully associated to this negative past experience.
Now, disassociate yourself:
Put yourself in the position of an
independent observer of the previous image. Watch yourself act as if
you were someone else. It is no longer you on the screen, it is your
double! You are just a spectator of what you were doing. Let this
dissociated image takes over your mental screen.

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