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Mommy, make it go away! Chris Harrison - January 2004 ©2007 PlanetNLP Ltd

The purpose of this NLP exercise is to enable you to change the way you feel whenever you remember an uncomfortable event from your past.
	It is important to understand the steps so that you can perform this exercise without any doubt as to what you are doing and why. It is a good idea to read the Content and Submodality Primers before attempting this exercise. Is there a memory that keeps forcing itself into your conscious attention, and makes you feel bad? Well, as you think about that now, notice that the image in your mind has a location in space.
Is the image directly in front of you? Is it to the right? Or to the left? Have you noticed that you can move it slightly? Well now imagine in front of you a giant slingshot. Now notice the picture nestling in the center of the slingshot.

Pull it back, and feel the tension in the elastic build as you stretch it all the way back, and let it go with a loud twang.

Now watch the picture shoot off until it's just a dot in the distance.

Think about something else for a moment, then think of the memory again.

Pull out your slingshot again and give it another go.

Keep doing this until the memory has no effect on your state at all and stays in the distance when you think of it.

In my mind I keep a trash can.

A bit like the one on a Macintosh computer, and when I have a memory that is really annoying me I reach out and scrunch it up, before dropping it into the trash can to my left with a satisfying crash. trash