A Development Journey Through Your Memories
Emotional immaturity is synonymous with a lack of emotional development. To become emotionally mature, you need to digest things, evolve, and grow. In other words, emotional development requires a journey of development that is characterized by the relationship between your emotions and the things you learn by overcoming difficulties.
Another way you can stimulate this emotional maturation is with your memories. Today we will talk about this very possibility. As Enrique Rojas has pointed out in his article “The Immature Personality”; emotional instability, lack of self-awareness and lack of responsibility characterize emotional immaturity.
You may be asking yourself how you can control your emotions. Today we will show you a great way to start this development journey.
Your development journey
To start this development journey, we recommend meditation. Close your eyes and focus on your breathing.
Next, visualize yourself walking along a path. It does not matter if it is filled with flowers, leaves or sand. The important thing is to feel everything around you. Feel the sun warm your body from head to toe.
At the end of the path you see a small hut with a door. Open the door and find a staircase. Go down the stairs. Here you will find three floors.
The room with the bad memories
On the ground floor you see a door and an elderly person next to it. The person smiles at you and tells you to choose one of the bad memories you find within.
Most of the bad memories have been with you for a long time. You’ve worn them, but you haven’t stopped and analyzed them or really felt them. Choose any bad memory. Then walk out the door again.
The room with the positive memories
Go further down the stairs to the next floor. Open the door to the room with the positive memories.
Walk in the door and choose the memory that attracts you the most or that matters most. Then walks out of the room again and down the stairs.
Your refuge: Last stop on your development journey
On the top floor you will also find a room. When you go in there, you meet a great place. The place is different for each person. It is a place where you are comfortable and find peace.
Sit in the middle of the room and take the memories you have collected out of your backpack. Analyze them until you realize that both your bad and good memory are a part of you.
After taking one last look at the amazing place, you go back to where you came from. On the way, you leave every memory where you found it. Go all the way back to the beginning of the trail. Finally, you open your eyes.
Accept your past
This journey of development helps you to accept the things that have happened so that you can better control your emotions.
If you are already meditating, this journey will be much easier. If not, you may have some trouble relaxing and letting go.
If you need help, just ask. Psychologists can help you with this exercise and many others, which can help you grow and confront everything that still hurts you today.
