Are your memories harming you?

Memories are distorted events.
Being that all-inclusive influences at time of creation is not and cannot possibly be recreated when our memories or other people’s memories are recalled.
How we feel on any given day is dependent on a number of factors:
How we slept?
Did we get out on the wrong side of the bed?
What our physical and mental health was like (were we feeling poorly or were we feeling strong)?
What we ate that day and did the preservatives or additives in our food trigger an imbalance within us to make us feel on edge without even realizing?
Were we sad?
Did we recently have a loss that could have impacted us emotionally?
Did someone say something to us earlier that left us feeling anxious?
What was our hormone balance like?
Was our actual mood that day impacted by our own insecurities at the time, by our fears, by our worries???
This list could go and on and yet our memories are always reflected / recalled in isolation.
We all know that any one or more of the above factors can impact us on how we feel, perceive, behave or react to our own and other people’s situations in any given moment. Yet when a memory is recalled it is fragmented; it is a made-up illusion of what happened at the time (by being recalled in isolation) and then reflected through the eyes of the older person recalling the memory.
Being that we reflect on an experience that we had when we were 20 years old and then recall it when we are 30; yet we are looking at it through the eyes, experience and maturity of someone 10 years older.
An older you; that has had numerous experiences to alter one’s perception and view on life, let alone the physical, mental and environmental influences to one’s mindset in their current and previous state of mind.
Our memories intent is not to deceive us and yet we will abide in our life choices and the decisions that we make for our future selves based on a reflection of a past that is illusionary.
It would be like making a commitment to a person that you had one date with and believing in your heart that you knew every possible thing about them.
There are a lot of memories that bring us joy and these should be treasured.
Where negative or unhappy memories can influence how we feel and how we (consciously or unconsciously) choose to react to situations in our future.
Our memories can lead us down the wrong path, without us ever realising.
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