Question

Read the passage and answer the question that follows.

"A way to deal with frozen feelings"

Every child experiences all that happens around him with total awareness. In the first seven years the child's brain is like a sponge, taking in all sensory inputs and building his idea of his surroundings. As long as the environment is safe, the child learns with incredible speed. However, when the environment is scary or stressful, the child unlearns past learning just as rapidly.

In the early years of every child's life, whenever there is shock, violence, fear or pain, these intense emotions are imprinted deeply into memory. Whenever the same activity or situation is repeated, the nervous system and body subconsciously re-experience the memory of that trauma.

Any emotional situation that takes us out of the present and into the past means that whenever the same kind of emotion crops up later in our life we return to the past for our reference point. If that point was at age three, we find ourselves behaving like a three-year-old. We feel childish and we behave childishly. Our feelings are the cause of this 'glitch' in our learning process. We know we should be able to make a positive change, but that doesn't change anything.

The process of change need not be traumatic. We couldn't have done any better because we didn't know how to. But we should realise that was then and this is now! We can choose to choose again. It's up to us. It's our movie!

The "Frozen Feelings" being talked about are about:

• A. Negative childhood experiences
• B. Childhood learning patterns
• C. Inability to learn as an adult
• D. None of the above

Hint:

Look at what the passage says gets imprinted in memory during childhood.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is A

Step 1: Find where the passage explains "frozen feelings".
The title itself is "A way to deal with frozen feelings", and the word "deal with" tells us this is something we need to handle, which points to a problem rather than a neutral pattern.

Step 2: Check the paragraphs that follow the title.
The passage goes on to talk about shock, violence, fear and pain being imprinted into memory during childhood, and how these emotions resurface later in life. This is describing painful past experiences, not just any learning pattern.

Step 3: Rule out the other options.
Option B, childhood learning patterns, is too broad and misses the negative tone of the passage. Option C, inability to learn as an adult, is never mentioned, the passage talks about reacting emotionally, not about learning ability. Option D is wrong because a correct match exists.

Final Answer:
The "frozen feelings" are the negative emotional experiences from childhood that stay locked in memory. \[ \boxed{\text{Negative childhood experiences}} \]