Now expand your written list of memories by using external triggers: • Personal literary artifacts: letters; diaries and journals; substantive emails; etc. • Family photos; your hoarded objects that “hold the energy of the past.”99 • Muscle memory: physically reproduce body movements, e.g., distinctive motions performed in a previous job. • Physically revisit geographical locations (or use Google Maps/Images!) • Draw the floor plan of your childhood home. “The house we were born in is physically inscribed in us. It is a group of organic habits.”100 • Research cultural artifacts of the time
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