Imagine your life is like a giant coloring book. Sometimes you draw a picture that you don’t like, or you get some messy scribbles on the page. Restarting your life is like turning to a brand-new, clean white page where you can draw anything you want with your favorite colors. You are the artist, and you always have more paper to start a new story whenever you are ready.
Why This Happens: We often feel stuck because our subconscious mind is a storehouse of total experiences that acts like a “behavior loop”. To save energy, your body relies on “historical conditioned beliefs” and untrained physical memory to lead the way, making it feel like you are following an old, unchangeable track. Without questioning these loops, you stay in a “stagnant” version of yourself just to reduce survival efforts.
How to Fix It: You can use a “Reset” technique called Age Regression. In your mind, look at your past as if it were a movie playing on a screen far away from you. Realize that you are now “older, wiser, and more mature” than the person in those old scenes. Mentally “cut the cord” to that screen, watch the old images fade away, and step into the bright light of your present moment.
Context: The Austrian founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, believed that symptoms are symbolic ways our minds deal with internal conflicts from our history. By evaluating these “repressions” with adult wisdom, we can achieve “enlightenment and permanent change”. This allows you to find your “durable self,” which is a unique construction rather than a destiny imposed by past events.
