Why Your First Seven Years Still Shape Your Life
From the moment you were born, you have been programming your brain through every experience you have had. Even if you cannot remember the actual event, the emotional responses are stored for future use, regardless of whether the experience was real or not. Memory research suggests that memory is reconstructive rather than a perfect recording of events. Each time we recall an experience, the memory can be subtly reshaped by later experiences, emotions and beliefs. This means our recollections...