Writing Your Memoirs To Expand Consciousness (yours and the collective)
- Teresita "Angela" Terga
- Apr 10
- 5 min read
Updated: Apr 12
There may be more to writing your memoirs than writing your memoirs. You can discover a part of yourself you may not be aware of when you write your memoirs. Writing your memoirs may seem daunting, but it can also be liberating. It is a step towards healing and cleansing. Shed the baggage and take flight to a lofty place above the pain, the remorse, the could have should have, had there not. The end of suffering is not death alone. It is recognizing this is Eden.
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Why People want to write their memoirs:
1) to keep treasured memories of their family alive;
2) to heal from an abusive past;
3) to recount the saga of an accomplishment;
4) to express remorse and ask forbearance.
Why would you want to write your memoirs?
Whatever reason you may have for writing your memoirs, writing your memoirs is naturally worthwhile, not just something you will accomplish for yourself alone. Your memoirs document history. Your story sheds light into the life of a person and their environment, both physical, mental, and cultural.
Going back in time may bring about a new way of looking at yourself and the whole community that surrounded you as you grew up. Shedding light on the past may bring about empowerment. You will heal from the negative memories you want to hide from. But facing them will bring closure and your unconscious minds will stop jeopardizing your present life with automatic situational reactions.
reasons for writing your memoirs:
Tell the story of a particular time in history that affected you.
Tell the story of the overcomer in you.
Shed light into the darkness.
Your words may be the catalyst in someone's life that disperses the clouds in their mind.
But don't just tell us, show us how, where, when and why!
how our selective memory works:
Remember when....
Selective memory evaluates events through only our point of view. However, when we widen our lens and sit back to reflect and relive the experiences, they may not seem as special. However, a mundane event has an exceptional value to the affected parties. The unique way of reacting to every event creates what we call "my life."
Your life is what you have felt since birth and how the feelings have shaped your thoughts. This has given place to a wheel that moves you day in and day out. This doesn't have to last a lifetime. Bringing these thoughts and reactions to the forefront will help us see why we acquire this mechanism. We can stop the wheel, get off that train, and start fresh. Writing your memoirs helps.
Likewise, selective memory can be consciously created to choose the thoughts you want to highlight, focusing on the type of life you want. Do you want to brood in the past, be a prisoner of its stigma, or do you want to give it up?
In some cases, you may even realize that other people around you may not have experienced the same event in their life as you have. Similar circumstances bring about different experiences. Perhaps you will get a different perspective on the whole event.
When it comes to memories of abuse or trauma, there was a victim and a perpetrator involved, as well as third parties in diverse positions around the event. Nothing happens in a vacuum.. Don't give in to feeling you are the victim. Separate yourself from the event. Fight back through those memories and bring out the healing. Sometimes, perpetrators are hiding in your family. That's what they do. But they can't hide from their conscience forever. You are not the executor. You are not the victim. You are not what someone did to you. You don't have to live your life based on the hidden memories you keep from yourself. Write them down and move on. You will feel lighter.
Things come up when you write your memoirs. Fears and accomplishments, blurry faces come into focus. You may shed some beliefs that, until that moment, you thought were true. You may begin to feel like your memoirs are not really yours; they could be anybody’s, and you are their witness. Take a look around. What is happening on the far side of your view?
Sometimes things that don't look as cheery also don't feel quite that bad. This is neutrality, generality. But you’ll still traverse a journey only you will know about. That personal journey you have taken may deliver you from pain and delusion instead of keeping you imprisoned. It's your choice.
It is not the ego but your level of Consciousness that dictates your memories.
Want to make a lie look like the truth? Be careful; you can do that, too, when you write your memoirs. Hopefully, you are realistic about your life and realize the ups and downs, goodness and evil, greatness and dullness of your life are not what really matter. The lessons you have learned as a human being make up your memoirs learning about. It's not the outcome so much as the epiphany and.
Write your memoirs and discover who you really are, what you really fear, and what you really want. Stretch the lens that you look through in life. Why? For Truth’s sake. Truth is the realm in which all things exist and happen without prejudice.
Can you handle life being different than what you thought it was? Can you look at trauma and know that you need not be the victim but the victorious overcomer? Write your memoirs and find your true Self inside.

In my memoirs, in which you are a taking part as a reader, since this is a memoir in the making. It combines anecdotes of my life and guides me to dig deeper into the subject matter that I bring up. You see, I find a purpose in the writing of my memoirs as I unveil topics on issues that have affected me and continue to be part of the fabric of my life.
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