How do you forget something you don't want to remember?

Question

Thanks for answers. All of your answers are accurate observations. Yes, art and craft is a very good distraction. Basically, being creative will get your mind of the sad and unwanted emotions into a different realm.

Answer 1

i was going through that question this morning. You just have to not care about what you want to forget...right now I made an awesome sandwich...listening to angry music and loving my life right now....just because I realize that nothing is worth dwelling over if it makes you feel like ****...so just fu#k whatever your worried about and do something that makes you feel good and you'll forget all about it!! good luck..

Answer 2

Memories that hurt and ones you don't want to remember it are so because they are full of hurt and painful residues of experiences we have gone through in the past. So to get rid of them all you have to do it to release all the pain and hurt from it, that’s all.

And there are two ways for doing it, first forgive if someone has hurt you, see the gift of that experience, may be it might not be totally clear right now, May if you view it years from now it will be clear, and not just yet, trust that there is a gift somewhere there. See how has it changed or empowered you, sometimes the gift reveals itself years later, but every pain has some wisdom embedded within we just open it later and that usually is the gift.

Second heal the emotions, accept everything that has happened the way it did, know that things happened because they are meant to sometimes, they are no body's fault.

Let go of all the emotions stuck in it and then when it no longer hurts you wont even want to get rid of it and that is when it will slowly drift away from your memory bank, like an old friend if you stop acknowledging him will soon stop calling up.

Answer 3

I will say is that, you can think about the love and happiness that made you laugh and cry outta of joy, with those ones you have had share in the past and right now here in the present, and yes it is going to take time for you to heal, and that includes with something that have had happened with you a certain someone that once use to matter the most to you, all I can say is that, just move on, let go, focus on the life you got with the people you got, who by the way, you know as well as they do, love you unconditional always and forever

Answer 4

The reality is that it is not possible to completely forget something bad. Memory is a strange thing and is programmed to remember the bad and not always the good things that happen in life.

The best solution is to accept that in life there are many things that are bad, but more things that are good. Every time that something pops in your head that you don't want to remember, think to yourself - OK, that happened, time to move on. Eventually it will get easier. Good luck.

Answer 5

You have to work through it. If you can't just forget it and you try to ignore it, yuo'll never forget. You have to do all the remembering you can handle, cry or laugh your way through it until you feel like you just can't think anymore. Then usually you can move on with your life easier. It will never completely go away but when you think about it again it won't feel so strong.

Answer 6

Tough! But, lets say that our memory work in strange ways. I guess the only way to burn that kind of memory is... Art. Yes, I know is a little bit strange, but is true. You can change those memories into art and you get rid of by playing a trick on your imagination.

Answer 7

Stop trying to forget it and it will just drift out of your mind. It is the focus on eliminating it that keeps binging it back. I assume this isn't an overly frightening ordeal or a lifechanging moment or anything like that.

Answer 8

You can't without injuring your brain. It makes more sense to come to terms with it. Once you can accept it, the memory will fade.

Answer 9

You go out and enjoy life, forgot about your worries. It's simple.

Answer 10

you have to stuff it way down inside and dont think about it when you do you have to push it out of your mind and back down to your gut. it takes practice but can be done.