THE WORD HAS POWER. A word is the equivalent of an action. When a narrative is used, an organized plot of past experience, it is easier for us to turn to it again in order to think, make a choice, make a decision. However, in life There are two main moments in a person when we cannot use words to describe our experience: the first is the age from birth to two or three years of age (preverbal period). The second is when a traumatic event occurs that exceeds the ability of the psyche to correctly process the perceived information. In In the absence of words, emotional experience is imprinted in fragments in the form of separate pieces of bodily sensations, fragments of memories, vague images. Fragments of experience remain nameless and, like scattered beads, disappear from consciousness and are lost in the depths of the unconscious. Without language, life experience turns out to be unknown and, most likely, will be recorded distorted and chaotically. Under the influence of a crushing traumatic event, language is the first thing that is attacked. Sometimes the muteness lasts for several minutes, sometimes for some time. But still, the ability to speak is not completely lost: at the most unexpected moments, something will break through from the unconscious, float to the surface of consciousness. The unconscious, like an unexpected guest, will unceremoniously make itself known, as in the saying : “You are at the door, and he is at the window.” It will break through, seep through, come to the surface in expressive bursts, in the form of annoying slips of the tongue. It will persistently knock on the door, play out in similar situations with one goal: just to hear and understand what has until now remained inexpressible in words - in dreams, in painful sensations , in obsessive behavior. Emotionally charged words are a code to forgotten memories that live in bodily symptoms, in the “body” of family stories. This is the missing element that is waiting to be retrieved as an important clue to dispel the magic failures in life. Express in words, connect the event and perception, sensation and meaning. And when enough such deep fragments-memories accumulate in the mind, then they can be connected together with an associative thread into a narrative, into a story. And the history of past worries and anxieties will shed light on the meaning of memories that could haunt us all our lives. In order for us to stop living them as if they belonged to the present time.✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ ✨✨-Have you noticed when some word broke through against your will, like a jack-in-the-box? - What was it? - What conclusions did you draw for yourself??