Repetitive Emotional Journaling
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Repetitive Emotional Journaling is a simple but surprisingly effective technique that can help you to work through many memories on your own. When you get upset your brain tends to freeze. Hence, whenever you think about an upsetting memory your brain freezes and the memory freezes with it. The act of writing or typing is calming all by itself so it tends to keep you from getting but so upset and prevents your brain from completely freezing. This lets you slowly begin to see the memory from a different perspective. This technique will only work if you diligently follow 2 rules. First you have to repeatedly write about the same memory. Resolving a memory is like learning to ride a bike, you have to do it over and over, improving a little more each time. Second, you have to really focus on your feelings. If you just write about the facts it will not help at all. Use as many feeling words as you can and don’t hold your feelings back.
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