Coaching practices for How to Use Memories to Feel Better
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- When I look back on good times it tips straight into aching for how things used to be
- I’m in a low stretch and it feels like nothing good is happening, and it doesn’t even occur to me to go back and actually relive one of the genuinely good moments I’ve had
- The memory finally doesn’t sting the way it used to, but the belief it left behind is still running the show
- When I try to think of something that might lift me out of this, my mind just goes blank
- Whenever I go near a painful memory I lunge straight at the worst moment to "get it over with," and it floods me every time
Practices that may help
- Reminiscence and savoring memories
Deliberately revisit good memories — with cues — to re-experience the positive feeling.
Savoring: Getting More From the Good - Revisit positive memories to relive them deliberately
Spend time replaying a genuinely good memory in detail — retrospective savoring extends the well-being benefit long after the event.
Savoring the Moment, Made Practical - Installation of the Positive Cognition
Once distress has cleared, strengthen the preferred self-belief with bilateral stimulation.
EMDR: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing - Build your personal pleasant events inventory
List every activity that has ever generated even mild pleasure — including things not done in a long time.
Pleasant Events Scheduling, Made Practical - Approach the edge of the memory, not the center
When working with a difficult memory, start at its least intense periphery — a moment before, a sensation at the boundary — rather than its core.
Titration in Somatic Practice, Made Practical - Use specific memories as resources for meaning
Identify particular memories that distil what mattered most about the relationship.
Meaning Reconstruction in Grief, Made Practical - Glimmer journaling
Keep a running daily log of glimmers to train the brain’s pattern-detection toward safety.
Glimmers: Micro-Moments That Cue Safety - Amplify images with sensory detail and emotion
Add sound, smell, movement, and emotion to your mental image to make it stick.
Peg System Mnemonics, Made Practical - Recall and anchor a previous peak experience
Vividly re-access a remembered peak state to lower the threshold for entering one again.
Peak Experiences and Self-Actualization - Use imagery to re-engage with avoided experiences
Revisit a distressing memory in concrete imagery rather than abstract analysis.
Rumination-Focused CBT, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Tapping For Specific Memories
Tap each of the nine points in sequence while repeating a reminder phrase about the specific problem.
Run the tapping sequence from eyebrow to underarm
- When Emdr Bilateral Stimulation Processing
Hold the distressing memory in mind while tracking rhythmic left-right stimulation — and notice what shifts.
Bilateral Stimulation During Active Processing
- Positive Memory Recall
Spend time replaying a genuinely good memory in detail — retrospective savoring extends the well-being benefit long after the event.
Revisit positive memories to relive them deliberately
- Reliving Happy Memories
Deliberately revisit good memories — with cues — to re-experience the positive feeling.
Reminiscence and savoring memories
- Structured Reminiscence
Deliberately revisit good memories — with cues — to re-experience the positive feeling.
- Memory Of Experience
Imaginal exposure has the person revisit the traumatic memory in detail to allow the brain to process it as a past event.
Understand imaginal exposure: revisiting the traumatic memory deliberately
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