Shadow Memories

Lurking in the shadows of thought are hidden memories.  They are the neural partners to experiences you have had.   There are several types of triggers to your memories. You might remember what year you moved for example if you remember that was the year your favorite team won the World Series. Your brain stores memories while you sleep in what appears to be random patterns.  The memory of you going to see that Broadway play with your friends may be stored right next to the memory or neural center in charge of making toast.   And so every time you make toast, you have a flash a memory of attending the Broadway play with your friends. A random activity is stored right next to a regular activity. This keeps the memories fresh, because you revisit them regularly.

Sometimes you will have a shadow memory.   When your triggers don't work, when the random associations don't connect, when you have a repressed memory, you may find yourself having a shadow memory.  One memory triggers another in the ordinary workings of the mind. A song could remind you of an old love. But if you had a bad break up, for example, and have blocked out certain memories, you will see a shadow.   The memory triggers fire, the neurons in your brain fire, but they meet a wall. You have compartmentalized this memory and cut it off from all connections. You have built a wall around certain memories.

So you will have a shadow memory, a shadowy vision of some random activity which is the trigger to the memory you are repressing. There is pain hidden behind the memory, but there is also truth.  Your brain did this, because it suffered a major shock, the truth wounded it so badly that it needed to heal.   The shadow memory is an indication that you are ready to face the truth, that you are ready to begin processing this information and finish healing.

It feels like when you wake up and knew you had a dream, but only see shadowy images and can't remember the dream very well.  Sometimes if you work at it, you can recover the dream. The same way, if you work at it you can recover the lost memories, the pieces of yourself that you have tucked away for the future.

 When you release the memories, you will release the energies, mental energies, that have been tied up with it perhaps for many years. You will restore parts of your personality that have been repressed. You will begin to heal and ultimately you will be stronger mentally and emotionally. Your emotional IQ will be boosted as your true and whole self is restored!