>>2370364 >So just going to the places I have sentimental feelings with will help? I feel like that's too easy of an answer, but also an answer that seems most obvious to work.
Well that's the 30,000ft overview but there's a more systematic way of going about it.
Like when you first get to a place, the intial emotional reaction, and consequently memories, always comes up.
But if you sit with it, you can only sustain those thoughts or emotions for so long (unless you're a totally depressed betafaggot who can mope for hours on end, then you should srsly take your meds), so your mind will start to wander and your body will gradually adjust with a lowered emotional state.
This way you basically teach yourself to adjust to a lower level of emotion each time you're there, and subconsciously it becomes "hey this place is kinda boring" or "hey it's just the same as literally anywhere else". One way to look at it is you keep going there until the old memories become boring.
If you avoid the place or tell yourself "i need to get out of here i can't handle the feels" , then you're teaching yourself that "escape is the only way to get rid of my discomfort" and "i need to avoid those places because i'm not capable of handling those feelings"
But yeah, basically keep going to those places as you normally would, don't purposely avoid them, and over time your new memories will cover up the old ones.
