Many of us know how difficult it is to erase something unpleasant from our memory and never remember it again.
However, there is still no point in doing so. An experiment by psychologists at the University of California at Los Angeles (USA) Michael Minnema and Barbara Knowlton (Michael T. Minnema, Barbara J. Knowlton) showed that, by ordering ourselves to forget something unpleasant, we, on the contrary, remember it firmly. Fighting unwanted memories, we literally follow the adage «forbidden fruit is sweet» and prolong their life. So it’s best to «let go» of the bad without deliberately resisting your experiences. Then we will get a chance to literally experience all the negativity, process it emotionally, and it will be forgotten by itself.