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In physics, there’s a concept known as the observer effect, which shows that the mere observation of a phenomenon inevitably changes the phenomenon.
So every time you look at your past it will change because it is just a memory.
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Well, the simple answer is most of us feel stuck in the past and can’t get over it and keep dwelling upon it which worsens the condition as if the Past happens to us and we can’t do anything but think more of it.
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Past is not about the event itself which causes the suffering but the Effect and the Meaning we derive from that event.
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Every time you go back to your past you change it. The past is just the raw material to work with. It’s entirely malleable and flexible. You get to take the pieces and choose which ones to discard and how you are going to frame them.
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“Regardless of what happened to you in the past, no matter how unique, terrible (or wonderful) it was, you have the same ability to shape who you were and who you will become.”
Quite literally, you are the Designer of your Past. S...
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Past is not some random place but the memory of some events.
If you get a bit deeper into the concepts like Quantum Physics, Time Traveling, and even spirituality you’ll get to know that time and space have a memory. It’s been said that every human has a certain level of energy with a diffe...
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As the neuroscientist, Dr. Donna Bridge said, “A memory is not simply an image produced by time-traveling back to the original event — it can be an image that is somewhat distorted because of the prior times you remembered it… Your memory of an event can grow the less precise event to the poi...
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This is the best method I used for getting out of traumatic memory.
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While it is clear that observing something can change the outcome or behaviour, there is another aspect of the Observer Effect: It also changes the perception of the observer regarding the outcome.
Known as ‘Observer Bias’, outcomes and results can appear altered or distor...
The process that provides us with vivid memories is the same one that we are using to imagine something. The mind treats past memory the same way as a future imagination. This also indicates that apart from the present moment, the past and future are just mental constructs.
There's only trained memory or untrained memory - no good or bad memory.
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