In this episode I share one of my big aha moments about how we cap our experience of pleasure and when understood with how we form and recall memories it explains our negative memory bias.
“What I want you to get out of this episode is, first of all, understanding how much power we have to create our own reality, to create our own experiences in the moments that haven't happened yet, but also in how we can remember the experiences we've had in a way that will support us to create the life we desire.”
“The story [we tell ourselves about our experiences] has come from a fraction of the detail of what happened, not the whole picture, part of the picture, we have then painted that with the emotions that we were feeling at the time. And we've added meaning to all of those pieces. So if we strip back the meaning, if we look at the emotions objectively, we can actually diffuse and clear a lot of the energy of it.”
“The more emotion that we're feeling at the time we're experiencing something, the more details we are going to remember about it. This is really, really important. Because more often than not, we have a larger range of painful or negative emotions that we allow ourselves to feel and we have a shorter range of pleasurable, positive emotions that we allow ourselves to feel.”
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