Now this, I am interested in. Think you understand enough about how you did what you did to be able to communicate it? That is, to explain more clearly about how to find understanding of my resistances and change them directly?
Observe what your brain is doing before you experience the resistance. In other words, notice what your brain is predicting will happen if you do the thing you’re about to do.
This handout gives an explanation of my “input-belief-prediction-feeling” model and gives some questions that can be useful in identifying the process by which you’re creating resistance.
What I do is establish a “test” condition—something I can think about in relation to the project or task that reliably reproduces the resistance response I’m trying to understand. Then, I can run the test repeatedly and try to see what images or sounds are flashing to my mind (the “prediction”) before the feeling of resistance arises. Once you have the prediction, you can then ask what you must have to believe in order for that (unconscious) prediction to come true.
IOW, our emotions and (de)motivation are driven by unconscious prediction of expected outcomes, to which our body responds with defensive or aggressive postures. And usually the predictions are simply cached thoughts that no longer connect with the rest of your belief system.
When you get enough practical experience with this, you realize that belief system updating is a very hit-or-miss process for human brains. Updates have to be in context of a particular memory trace, and unless that trace is actually shared across your belief system, it’s a one-at-a-time process. Sort of like having a subroutine in code vs. copy/paste—our brains have a lot of “copy/paste”, although there’s also a lot of abstraction. You just never know going in what the effective scope of your changes will be.
Now this, I am interested in. Think you understand enough about how you did what you did to be able to communicate it? That is, to explain more clearly about how to find understanding of my resistances and change them directly?
Thanks.
Observe what your brain is doing before you experience the resistance. In other words, notice what your brain is predicting will happen if you do the thing you’re about to do.
This handout gives an explanation of my “input-belief-prediction-feeling” model and gives some questions that can be useful in identifying the process by which you’re creating resistance.
What I do is establish a “test” condition—something I can think about in relation to the project or task that reliably reproduces the resistance response I’m trying to understand. Then, I can run the test repeatedly and try to see what images or sounds are flashing to my mind (the “prediction”) before the feeling of resistance arises. Once you have the prediction, you can then ask what you must have to believe in order for that (unconscious) prediction to come true.
IOW, our emotions and (de)motivation are driven by unconscious prediction of expected outcomes, to which our body responds with defensive or aggressive postures. And usually the predictions are simply cached thoughts that no longer connect with the rest of your belief system.
When you get enough practical experience with this, you realize that belief system updating is a very hit-or-miss process for human brains. Updates have to be in context of a particular memory trace, and unless that trace is actually shared across your belief system, it’s a one-at-a-time process. Sort of like having a subroutine in code vs. copy/paste—our brains have a lot of “copy/paste”, although there’s also a lot of abstraction. You just never know going in what the effective scope of your changes will be.