Your mind goes back in time every single day—so why not use that power intentionally?
Every time you replay a painful memory, you're literally time traveling. Your body doesn't know the difference between what you're imagining and what's happening right now. When you loop that traumatic event in your head, you're releasing cortisol, triggering depression, and crystallizing yourself as a victim over and over again. But here's what nobody tells you: if you can mentally go backward, you can consciously edit what happened and shift your entire future.
👉 Watch the full episode: Edit the Past: How to Shift Realities by Editing Your Memories
The Science of Closed Timelike Curves
In our previous discussion about time travel, we explored closed timelike curves (CTCs)—theoretical paths through spacetime that loop back on themselves. While using CTCs for physical time travel would trap you in a loop, this limitation becomes an advantage when applied to consciousness and memory.
Think about it: life is already cyclical. Before modern left-brain linear thinking, humans understood that everything in reality moves in cycles—seasons, birth and death, creation and destruction. The linear progression of time is an illusion. Einstein confirmed this. What we're really dealing with is a loop system, and some people (like NPCs in a video game) just replay the same patterns endlessly.
But you can turn that loop into a spiral and break free by making dramatically different choices—or by editing your past.
Breaking the Reaction Cycle
For the past two weeks, I've been practicing something revolutionary: pausing before I react. When someone says or does something that would normally trigger an automatic response, I stop. In that pause, something extraordinary happens—I can suddenly see multiple reality paths branching out in front of me.
If I say this sarcastic thing, my partner will react this way. If I respond gently, this will happen. If I don't say anything, we go down this path instead. You start seeing yourself as a multidimensional being who can choose which reality to experience.
This isn't easy. That feeling of resistance you experience when imagining yourself doing something completely out of character—like jumping on a table at a bar and singing karaoke when you're normally shy—that discomfort is actually your consciousness pushing against the boundaries of your current path. Those feelings are membranes holding you in one reality, preventing you from shifting to a different life experience.
Your Body Regenerates Every Seven Years
Here's something that should blow your mind: your body completely regenerates itself every seven years. If you're 70 years old, you've had 10 different bodies. So why are you still carrying scars? Why are you aging? Those scars are just memories. Your body recreates the form you believe yourself to be.
When you look at yourself as a multidimensional being moving through spacetime, you're not one body trudging through time—you're like frames in a movie. There's you at 9:27 AM, you at 9:28 AM, you at 9:30 AM. Each moment is a separate "you" existing simultaneously. If the 3:36 PM version of you experiences something traumatic, that's just one frame. All the other versions of you are still fine.
This is how teleportation will eventually work—scientists will figure out how to use this natural regeneration mechanism to disassemble and reassemble bodies. We're already doing it unconsciously every seven years.
The Memory Editing Process
When your mind automatically loops back to painful memories, you're allowing something else to control your consciousness. That intrusive thought that pops up about something that happened 12 years ago? You don't have to entertain it.
Here's what I do now: when my mind tries to throw a traumatic memory at me, I consciously reimagine what happened. I tell myself there's a protective mechanism where consciousness leaves the body during traumatic events, so the soul doesn't actually experience the suffering. Or I'll go further and just delete the scene entirely—"that didn't happen" or "that person doesn't exist in my mind."
This isn't repression or dissociation. This is me taking control of my own consciousness. Your mind forgets things all the time—where you put your keys, what you had for breakfast four days ago. So why can't you consciously choose to forget things that cause depression and keep you trapped in victim patterns?
Real-World Applications
I was walking yesterday and started feeling tired. My mind said "you've been walking for an hour," and I responded "no I haven't." I literally gaslight my own mind. I'll edit out the tired versions of myself from the last 30 minutes and just keep the refreshed ones.
When I felt pain in my foot that came out of nowhere, I checked: no pain at 9:27, no pain at 9:28, pain starts at 9:30. So I just cut out that part. Within 30 seconds of consciously deciding my foot didn't hurt, the pain stopped.
When friends try to bring up people who were unkind to me, I literally delete those people from my memory. "Who?" becomes my genuine response because I've chosen not to carry them forward in my consciousness.
The Editing Floor Technique
Think of your life as a film you're directing. Some people get hyped up, filmed for hours, and then don't make it to the final cut. The same thing needs to happen with memories and people who don't deserve starring roles in your life story.
Every time you mentally loop back to painful events, you're giving those moments and people power over your present and future. You're crystallizing yourself as someone who was hurt, betrayed, or traumatized. That version of you becomes locked in, determining your path forward.
Instead, become the editor of your own experience. Cut out scenes that don't serve the story you want to tell. Leave toxic people on the editing floor. When your mind tries to bring up deleted content, redirect it: "Actually, this is what happened instead."
Breaking the Trauma Loop
I know someone who constantly brings up their partner's infidelity from decades ago. Every time they revisit that memory, they're releasing cortisol into their body, crystallizing themselves as a victim, and ensuring their future remains on the same painful trajectory. That one event has been harming them for 20 years because they keep mentally going back and getting stabbed over and over again.
The lesson could have been learned once: "I can't trust this person the same way." But keeping the emotional charge of the memory active is like having an open wound that you keep reopening. You're not healing—you're continuously retraumatizing yourself.
The Protective Mechanism
The day after I started practicing memory editing, a subscriber sent me a video about someone who had a psychotic break at age 10. In the video, he describes exactly what I had told myself: that during traumatic experiences, consciousness separates from the body as a protective mechanism. The universe was confirming what I already knew.
This forgetfulness mechanism exists to protect us. If you could remember every traumatic death from past lives—the Spanish Inquisition, witch trials, wars, murders—you'd be carrying unbearable amounts of trauma. The fact that we forget is a feature, not a bug. So why not use it intentionally?
Shifting Your Timeline
When you change your past through conscious memory editing, you shift your future. The person who's always angry because they remember every slight will experience a different reality than someone who chooses to edit out unnecessary suffering.
This isn't about becoming naive or ignoring red flags. Learn the lessons, but delete the emotional charge. Take the wisdom, leave the wound. You're not changing what happened in that timeline—you're choosing which timeline to identify with going forward.
Your consciousness is multidimensional. You exist across infinite possibilities. Why stay locked into the version of yourself that was hurt when you could shift into the version that's free?
Stop letting random, insignificant people have starring roles in your life story. You're the director—start acting like it.
👉 Watch the full episode: Edit the Past: How to Shift Realities by Editing Your Memories
Quick Questions
Q: Isn't editing memories just denial or dissociation? A: No—it's conscious choice. Your mind forgets things constantly. This is intentionally directing that natural process instead of letting random memories control your emotional state and future trajectory.
Q: How does changing memories actually shift your future? A: Memories of past trauma crystallize you as a victim and determine your behavioral patterns. When you edit the emotional charge of memories, you break free from victim patterns and can choose different responses.
Q: What's the difference between learning from the past and being trapped by it? A: Learning means extracting wisdom once and moving forward. Being trapped means repeatedly reliving painful emotions from past events, which keeps you locked in the same patterns and prevents growth.
Q: How do I know which memories to edit versus which ones to keep? A: Edit memories that serve no purpose except to make you suffer or identify as a victim. Keep the lessons and wisdom, but remove the emotional charge that keeps you stuck in negative patterns.
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