Veiled Memories

I realized first that I may be using a different definition of the word than is often used today. This blog article is not about women who wear veils but about memories that everyone has that they often can't get to because either they are too painful, too confusing, happened to young, caused a person to lose consciousness or have amnesia. So what I'm writing about is not about veiled women but about the veiled memories that everyone has that their minds try to protect them from and that sometimes people try to protect themselves from.

What I'm here to write about is that I believe absolutely everyone has veiled memories of one sort or another and that these memories have an important purpose in our lives even if we wish to forget them. Because what we run away from while conscious we still have to face in our dreams. It's just the way humans are built. Sooner or later everything gets dealt with one way or another. So in finding an adult way to approach what is really bothering us completes the cycle and we can then move on.

What we run from in consciousness only comes back to haunt us until we deal with it. So, finding an adult way to deal with these memories ends the cycle or makes it livable to deal with whatever it is ongoing.

Often just talking out your feelings about whatever is bothering you will liberate the problem and if you can name the problem often it just resolves itself and goes away, especially if it is something that happened in the past and really has no significant usefulness in the present except in your memories and nightmares.

Other times hidden memories allow us to process what has happened to us as children and why we think and behave the way we do. Sometimes in freeing oneself from hidden memories we are able to go on with our lives and psychologically be reborn.

One of the techniques I have used is the Human Potential movement where men's groups and women's groups help  their group overcome past problems especially problems that began while children growing up. By dealing with those problems that were left unresolved in one's mind and emotions in an adult way one is then free to live their life as a better more fully functional and complete adult. In other words, "Be all that you can Be" in your life ongoing. In this way true happiness might be found for you and your loved ones.