We want to turn negative habits into positive ones as a prelude to the larger freedom of moment to moment perception and wisdom. Being in the here and now. But the question always arises how to do this. We ask how if a negative experience has been created in our unconscious memory and the spontaneous recall continues to trouble the present how we can stop it from resurfacing. We often believe that we are imprisoned by an unchangeable past. We are not. Rumination reinforces the problem as in Western psychology one recites and reflects repeatedly one's problems. We have to let old wounds heal , it does not mean repressing them but it means that what is not fed will wither.
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