How hypnosis can ease the pain of past memories – Mark Tyrrell

Like it or not, we are not just the sum of our parts. We are also the sum of our pasts.

We learn emotionally as well as in other ways. The ‘emotional brain’ is amazingly clever in some ways – think of that common experience where a song you haven’t heard for decades prompts a very specific emotional feeling in you, which then in it’s own turn suddenly wakes a memory you hadn’t thought about for years.

But in spite of this astoundingly precise capacity, in other respects our emotions are more like blunt instruments – primeval and over-simplified responses that were …

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