Can anyone answer this question?

[Unregistered6]

I can't find information on this anywhere; can anyone help? I want to find out what it means when a person spontaneously "regresses" to a pleasant time in her/his life. I'm not talking about nostalgia or just thinking a lot about a time, but actually having a sense of reliving it.

I understand that negative/traumatic experiences need to be processed and released, but what about positive and pleasant ones?

Why would this happen, and what does a person normally need to do when this happens to her/him?

Thanks very much to anyone who answers.

[Don]

In my experience, spontaneous regression is usually caused by some stimulus. One very powerful such stimulus is the sense of smell. A person gets the smell of a flower and they suddenly find themselves remembering a wonderful time in childhood where they played in a field and first smelled that flower, for example.

This is a normal part of life, and since it is spontaneous, there is nothing that a person "needs" to do when it happens to them other than enjoy it.

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Why would you want to process and release positive experiences?

All regression is the result of some stimulus 'taking you back'. In that sense there is no spontaneous regression. The stimulus was either accidental or deliberate.

Don's example of smelling the flower could be either accidental or deliberate.

The depth of the regression is a function of how willing at the time you are, to go completely into the experience.

One time at a siminar I had a woman sitting in the platform with me in a swivel chair. As we were talking I began to gently swivel the chair, she was in, back and forth. She did not consciously realize this, but as a result she began to regress. She was in a 'safe' enough place for her to be able to let go and fully enjoy the experience. I may have helped with an 'occasional encouragement'. ;)

Was that spontaneous regression?

For further understanding check out "4 tuple", and or NLP's theory on memory storage and access.

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[Poodle]

I'll give a tiny lesson here to try to get someone into a good NLP training.

When a person is fully and deepy associated into an internal state (emotional), that is known as a complete 4-Tuple as you are experiencing Audio, Visual, Feelings (emotions) and smell (using 4 of your senses). Since this is apparently a nice place for you to be in we would not break the state. It does, however, give us BMIR which means Behavioral Manifestation of an Internal Response.

The NLPer's job is to then have the ability to perceive and record what you are seeing and hearing without interpreting it.

If what you were experiencing was not good, we can break the state usually dealing with emotions (feelings) but as this seems to be a pleasant state, just sit back and enjoy and don't worry about it.

This one learns in about the first day of NLP training. NLP is a heck of a lot of fun!! Not only do you learn how to control your own life, you can also help many, many others. It's totally amazing how the human brain responds to very simple procedures or just a few words. I had one lady in who had a teenage daughter that was driving her nutzzz. I showed her how to use NLP to create a different behavioral response in her daughter. Worked? You betcha it did!!