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Have you ever felt stuck in a loop of heavy emotions, as if your mind keeps returning to the same painful memories and the same inner reactions? You are not alone. Many people are not “broken” at all – they are simply running old emotional programs that were created in moments they did not know how to process.
Robert G. Smith, the creator of Eutaptics® FasterEFT™, teaches that healing is not about forcing yourself to “think positive.” Healing is about changing what your brain is doing with the past – and learning how to guide your emotional system back into safety, calm, and power.
In this article, we will explore two simple healing attitudes that can change everything. They are not theories. They are practical principles you can apply immediately, especially when you notice yourself sliding into anxiety, anger, sadness, guilt, or hopelessness.
Healing Attitude 1: Your Energy and Actions Follow Your Thoughts
When you hold a thought in your mind, your body responds. It does not matter whether the thought is about something real, something imagined, or something long gone. Your nervous system reacts to your internal picture as if it is happening now.
This is why an old memory can suddenly make your chest tighten. This is why a single sentence in your head can ruin your entire day. And this is also why your inner world is the most important place to start, if you want lasting change.
Where your attention goes, your energy follows. If you keep focusing on what hurt you, your mind keeps feeding the emotional fire. But if you learn to shift your focus and change the way you hold that experience inside, the emotional charge begins to dissolve.
Robert teaches that your brain “rehearses” memories. It plays them like short movies. And every rehearsal strengthens the emotional wiring. This is not weakness. This is simply how the brain learns.
So the question is not: “Why do I feel this way?” The better question is:
“What am I running inside that makes my body feel this way?”
Once you see that, you can start changing it.
Healing Attitude 2: Rehearsing Painful Memories Re-Creates the Pain
Many people believe the past is over. And logically, it is. But emotionally, the past can still live inside us if we keep replaying it – or if our unconscious keeps replaying it for us.
When you repeatedly re-experience a memory in your mind, your body reacts as if it is happening again. This creates a cycle:
- You remember something painful.
- Your body reacts with emotion.
- The emotion “proves” the memory is dangerous.
- The brain rehearses it again to protect you.
That is how negative emotional loops are built. And that is why they feel so convincing.
Robert’s approach is direct:
Stop feeding the loop. Start training a new inner direction.
This does not mean pretending bad things never happened. It means you stop carrying them in a way that keeps harming you today.
How to Practice Positive Change
If your mind can rehearse pain, it can also rehearse relief. If your brain can strengthen fear, it can also strengthen calm. The skill is in what you practice internally – again and again – until your nervous system learns a new baseline.
Here are three practical steps aligned with Robert G. Smith’s teaching:
1) Play the Good Memories on Purpose
Take a moment every day to recall a truly good memory. Not a fantasy – a real moment when you felt safe, loved, proud, relaxed, connected, or simply okay.
Let the image become vivid. Notice the colors. Notice the feeling. Let your body receive it. This is not “positive thinking.” This is nervous system training.
2) Change Your Internal Reference
When a painful memory appears, notice how you are holding it. Is it close? Is it loud? Is it intense? Does it feel like “now”?
Even without going deep, you can begin to shift how your brain represents it. Make it smaller. Move it farther away. Reduce the intensity. Then return to a resourceful memory and let your system settle.
Small changes in internal representation often create surprisingly big emotional shifts.
3) Build Skill and Discipline – Gently
Emotional control is not a talent. It is a skill. And every skill improves with practice. The key is to practice without violence toward yourself.
Do not demand perfection. Do not shame yourself for reactions. Simply notice, shift, and repeat. That is how your brain learns a new pattern.
Taking Back Your Life
When you begin to guide your inner world, you start to feel something powerful: choice. You realize you do not have to be pushed around by old emotional programs. You can interrupt them. You can change them. And you can build a more peaceful inner environment over time.
Robert G. Smith’s message is simple but profound:
“You are not broken. You are trained.”
And what has been trained can be retrained.
A Final Step
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