Subconscious filtering causes everyone's perception of an experience to be different than the actual happening. What gets through the brain barrier is a personalized version, which can be a far cry from the real thing. That personalized version is what is stored.

Which means that internal representations are the gospel according to your own interpretation. As unique, in the fine details, as your fingerprints or DNA.

COPING MORE EFFECTIVELY

Positive past experiences can be used, as is or enhanced, as a resource to cope with present problems or situations more effectively.

In addition, past negative experiences can be reworked so that they no longer take a toll on mind and body, or produce self-limiting beliefs.

It is also possible to construct or imagine future happenings, then store them on your mental timeline in a spot that is more visible to your mind's eye, so that they will materialize sooner.

YOUR EXPERIENCE INDEX

In order to do all that, you have to compile an Experience Index, recalling and classifying experiences, both the good ones and the bad ones.

Many of them lie dormant, long forgotten, but they are still there and they can still be retrieved.

This ebook gives you methods you can use to extract past experiences from memory.

Two basic approaches are used. First, questions designed to jog your memory, and second, association techniques..

Association is the more systematic of the two approaches because it can be ongoing. This ebook introduces you to eleven different types of association. Learning how to use them will help build and classify your Experience Index.

HARVESTING BY ASSOCIATION

Here is an example of just one type of association you can use which can pay off big time when coupled with remodeling techniques.

The categories below are just a starter sampling. Look at each and try to remember any past experience, good or bad, related to the topic.

- - - Jobs you have had and the salaries you were paid.

- - - Bank accounts and investments at different stages.

- - - Things you have done with your spouse, children, parents?

- - - Health or weight problems you have had.

- - - Vacations, trips, and travel destinations.

- - - Relationships, dates, and sexual experiences.

- - - Organizations you have joined.

- - - Sports, exercise, and athletic activities.

- - - Education, skill training, and courses you have taken.

- - - Money and your credit rating .

Most people find, after starting a list, that recall of past experiences flows better. They also discover that they can take each listed experience and dig deeper, coming up with more and more.

This ebook explains eleven different types of association, as well as a number of other techniques you can use to unearth and extract experiences that can be grouped and classified in preparation for remodeling.

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