Explore positive memories with Sophro-mnesia: an inner journey toward confidence and well-being

For highly sensitive and atypical individuals, the past can be a rich and complex source of emotions and memories. Sophromnesia, a practice derived from sophrology, offers a supportive framework for revisiting these memories from a positive perspective, promoting inner healing and strengthening personal resources.

As a complement to sophroanamnestic therapy, it allows access to buried experiences, often inaccessible to ordinary consciousness, in order to extract lasting benefits.

Free Sophro-mnesia: spontaneously welcoming positive memories

Free sophro-mnesia invites you to freely connect with pleasant memories, letting your mind wander without constraint. This technique involves welcoming all the positive images, perceptions, emotions, and sensations that emerge, thereby awakening enriching experiences in the body and mind. It allows these benefits to be integrated into the present moment, transforming memory into a real lever for confidence, self-esteem, and hope.

In a sophroliminal state—a state of altered consciousness conducive to introspection—the person is guided to go back chronologically through their past. For example, if they are 35 years old, the sophrologist may invite them to “open the book” of their life to the page corresponding to each year, or to count slowly backwards. At each stage, the patient describes what they see and feel, focusing on what brings them the most pleasure or comfort.

This process, known as positive sophro-mnesia, helps to release tension related to traumatic or stressful events, especially when combined with sophro-anamnestic therapy.

Senso-perceptive Sophro-mnesia: reliving pleasant sensations in the body

Senso-perceptive sophro-mnesia deepens this exploration by inviting the person to relive pleasant experiences from their past in their body, which the mind fully appropriates in the present moment.

This re-perception unfolds on several levels:

• Sensory: sight, smell, taste, hearing, touch, as well as interoceptive (internal feelings) and kinesthetic (body movements) sensations.

• Intellectual: perception of shapes, colors, spaces, environments, and people.

• Physical: sensations of temperature, weight, movement, atmosphere.

• Emotional: positive emotions and feelings.

This careful attention to sensory and emotional details transforms the memory into a brighter and more soothing version.

To enhance this experience, you can accompany your breathing with a simple gesture: raise your arms as you inhale, amplifying the memory, then lower them as you exhale, allowing your consciousness to fully absorb this pleasant sensation.

Sophromnesia, a path to inner reconciliation and vitality

Practiced gently and regularly, sophro-mnesia releases limiting memories and invites you to anchor yourself in positive experiences, sources of deep well-being. It offers hypersensitive and atypical people a safe space to reconnect with their history in a benevolent light, strengthen their self-esteem, and cultivate lasting emotional balance.

By transforming the past into a living resource, sophro-mnesia paves the way for a more serene and fulfilling life.

Sophro-mnésie through two fun exercises

Exercise 1: Free sophrology memory — Connecting with a positive memory

1. Sit or lie down comfortably in a quiet place where you will not be disturbed. Gently close your eyes.

   
   

2. Take several deep, slow breaths to relax.

   
   

3. Let your mind wander freely to a pleasant memory, a moment when you felt safe, loved, or simply happy.

   
   

4. Welcome without judgment all the images, sensations, and emotions that come to the surface. Observe them as if you were watching a gentle and benevolent film.

   
   

5. Mentally note what brings you the most comfort or joy in this memory.

   
   

6. Stay with this positive experience for a few moments, allowing your body and mind to soak up this energy.

Finish with a few deep breaths, gently open your eyes, and take a moment to return to the present moment.

Exercise 2: Sensory-perceptive sophrology — Reliving a pleasant memory in your body

Sit comfortably and close your eyes. Breathe slowly and deeply to anchor yourself in the present.

1. Choose a pleasant memory that you would like to relive: a place, a moment, an encounter that brought you well-being.

   
   

2. Visualize this memory by engaging your senses: what do you see? What do you smell? What sounds do you hear? What textures or temperatures do you perceive?

   
   

3. Pay attention to the physical sensations in your body associated with this memory: warmth, lightness, movement, relaxation.

   
   

4. Breathe in deeply as you gently raise your arms, as if to welcome this positive energy.

   
   

5. Breathe out slowly as you lower your arms, allowing this sensation to spread throughout your body.

   
   

6. Repeat this breathing movement 3 to 5 times, amplifying the pleasant sensation with each breath.

   
   

7. Finish by remaining in this state of inner calm for a few moments before opening your eyes.

These exercises can be practiced regularly, alone or with a sophrologist, to strengthen your connection to yourself, calm your mind, and nurture a balanced emotional state.

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