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Are You Needlessly Recycling Emotional Pain?

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Are You Needlessly Recycling Emotional Pain? How to Let Go and Move on
By Maria McMahon | Submitted On October 08, 2014

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Expert Author Maria McMahon
In my experience as a therapist, I 've learned that a lot of people struggle with negative thoughts and feelings that not only hold them back but wear them down, make them ill, angry, depressed and sad, and prevent them from living a life of joy.

The past is in the past - and you DO know this, even though you might ignore the fact that what happened last week, last year, or ten years before should be ousted from your mind right now. You still cling on to it and keep the negative loop playing over and over in your mind, calling up the hurt and suffering, effectively recycling emotional pain day in, day out. I call it 'the Negative Four Rs of emotional pain: Re-thinking, Re-living, Re-feeling, Re-cycling.

Why do you do this? Because your subconscious has no clock!

The reason why emotional pain still affects you even though years may have passed is because your subconscious has NO concept of time. The clock isn 't even broken - it was never working in the first place. Whatever you are feeling at any

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