While most psychologists approach the topic of Forgetting from negative perspective, meaning they try to find ways to minimize forgetfulness, I have discovered the need to forget early on because I am extremely sensitive by nature.  If I don't appear to be, it's because I am buried under all the psychological armor I have collected over the years.

Forgetting is not just difficult, it is near impossible.  Most troublesome is the visual memory because we can easily and even accidentally imagine.  Can you imagine the smell of great coffee, taste of pizza, or sound of glass breaking?  Most people can't, so those senses are not likely to trigger memory.  Which leaves the visually triggered memory.

The idea is to find a way to prevent certain images from triggering unwanted memory.  Here is the technique I found that works for me.  Conjure the image that triggers memory you want to forget.  Follow it immediately with an image of white wall, black board, or whatever image that suits you.  Repeat as often as necessary.

Next time you accidentally conjure the image, the other image will follow immediately and prevent associated memory from surfacing.  Ain't it cool how human mind works?  It's like a monkey with short attention span at this level and you can easily play dumb tricks like this with it.

I have discovered that there are some unfortunate side-effects though.  Particularly, you'll occasionally experience the mental equivalent of flipping over two pages of a book stuck together.  I don't mind it so much, but you might.

Talking about just technical stuff is boring to me, so please bear with me even if you are alergic to this sort of posts.  If you can put up with Tim's roses, you can put up with this.  Hey, you might even get addicted!