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This is for people who are aware of when old issues are entering their present and they know they don\u2019t want that to be happening. Our old memories operate like a trigger/pattern system. Think of it as a pinball machine called \u201cMy Pain Game\u201d and it makes the shape of your brain with all sorts of memories that you allow to define who you are, what is allowed to affect you and what you focus on and feel. You have that little pinball that lies latent but when it\u2019s triggered \u2013 it shoots around your brain and activates different zones of pre-set actions. Those zones are things like, \u201c There are two little paddles you get to control at the base of this game. Your emotionally driven reaction depends on where you choose to hit this ball. If you hit it hard, it shoots into \u201cpain and drama.\u201d When you don\u2019t hit it at all, it drops off the board. The point being \u2013 you are the one who keeps the ball in play. So when it goes into a certain area, it activates new triggers that are not controlled by you. Those little \u201chot spots\u201d that shoot it even harder \u2013 these emotional hotspots take over the game and the ball will shoot around the table at top speed. The ball makes its way around and back to our hands \u2013 and what we tend to do is shoot it back up again, causing it to replay the series of triggers we have all over our \u201cmemory of self.\u201d Just like a pinball machine \u2013 often it feels in our mind like we have no control and we are not to blame for this patterned response. However \u2013 ultimately we have control, and we can choose to keep the ball in play or not. Our power comes into play when we actually choose to USE that control in the moment it counts. When we have the brief moment of awareness \u2013 that we are about to play out our game again. Aren\u2019t you sick of the game? I bet you are \u2013 because what you\u2019re losing right now is quality of life. If your old pain is old enough, it\u2019s likely voiced by the rationale of a child \u2013 so the childhood logic, which is petty and small \u2013 is still operating you. Even if the situation is recent and totally unrelated to your childhood dynamics \u2013the same baggage will pilot you when a trigger comes up. Don\u2019t let it. You\u2019re a grown up now. And grownups can look at things and put them down already. Old pain is totally unnecessary and the only person it robs is YOU. You hurt you by wasting your valuable moments in an old automatic loop of behaviors and thoughts and reactions. Who wants to play this now? It\u2019s old, dusty and not fun. For more visit Teaspoonofhappy.com and please review me if you like this! xo\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices