Step 3: Feel That Old Pain
We tend to avoid thinking of painful things. But if you stay with the feeling, the feeling eventually dissipates.
Allow yourself to feel what's associated with past experiences to make the pain and the behaviors it causes go away, leaving only the memories.
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