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Balancing Therapy.
Know, Respect, and Discipline
Your UNCONSCIOUS.
(Your REPTILIAN STRUCTURE.)
INDEX
Keeping the dials in the Safety Range!
PHYSICAL SURVIVAL AT ANY COST.
Its structure is common to life that has survived for hundreds of millions of years before humanity.
Our Reptilian Structure is the core and the most primitive part of our composite brain.
Because it does its functions automatically and because most of us have almost no conscious awareness of and no control over those functions, our intellect and consciousness ignores it and proudly takes it for granted. Pride DOES come before many disasters and so it is here. No amount of conscious determination and intellectual rationalization of what one might like to do will usually have any influence on the Power of the automatic patterns of the Reptilian Structure. It is a powerful associate for the benefit of our Identity Team, or, a powerful enemy of one or more of the other Identity expressions.
Without the power of the Reptilian Structure we would physically die.
It functions like an engineer tending to the guages in the utility center of a huge skyscraper situated in a region of climatic extremes. When it is both night and freezing outside, it maintains the heating units within a range of operation that keeps all offices in the building at a level of comfort. So it also is on the brightest, hottest days of the year when a malfunction of the cooling and ventilation system would result in the building having to be vacated before sundown to prevent the workers inside from dying of heat shock. The Reptilian Structure does its best to keep thousands of individual and co-dependent factors synchronized and within certain ranges of minimum and maximum safety limits. To fail or err, has a high potential of one losing one's job and one's life with a collapse of the tower.
Common Reptilian PATTERNS include the beating of our heart, our blood pressure, the degree of activity of each cell, the synchronization of cells to enable organ function, the pacing of the production of well over 100 hormones to enable energy utilization (metabolism), resource allocation and storage (fat), waste removal, (body) temperature and humidity regulation, the chaining of multiple organ system functions (i.e. digestion), optimization of security (immunity), maintainence of communication pathways (nerves), structural integrity (bones, ligaments, tendens), and on and on. None of us are born consciously controlling these mandatory physical processes. Our limited (conscious) learning and awareness, and our (emotional) motivations would soon kill us with their reactions to frustrations --- like a depressed person electing to stop their heart, an enraged person electing to over-pressure their heart into failure, a confused person electing for anarchy of the immune system. Each has its place. The whole benefits when each is doing its best and respecting the others.
The Reptilian Structure is not equipped to be a manager (Personal Spirit) or supervisor (SuperEgo), designer (God) or owner (Ego) of this Big Life-Structure. Those other participants have decision-making abilities with a capability to consider options. Not so, the Reptilian Structure. It staunchly follows the gene rule book it was given when the building was constructed. A Basic Plan (Basic Personality) provided for individual refinements of the structure. Yet the contractors (Parents) persisted in completing their work with the same erroneous patterns (Energy Blocks) they learned from their mentors (Parents), teachers (Culture), and personal traumatic experiences. All the standard routines are correct. It is the routines adopted to patch over the laziness, stubborness, ignorance, lack of awareness, and earlier inherited destructive patterns of the other Identity expressions that the Reptilian Structure both initiates and controls.
Reptilian Structure initiated patterns are both reactive (automatic) and permanent.
It is not the job of "Reppie" to make decisions so when its work is frustrated and distracted by such emergencies, the only answer it can provide is one of power (automatic) and efficiency (permanent). Allowing such emergencies to persist is like allowing windows in a building to be repeatedly opened and left open in the middle of the cold season. The answer: Weld the window shut. This immediate and effective solution may raise other dangers and conflicts when there is a fire within if the building has been designed with fire escape by way of the windows now welded shut. The danger may never be noticed or appear for decades until a fire develops. Then, some tenants may die from the fire (acute illness), from the smoke (chronic illness), or by physical accident (misjudgement). Preventable injuries may occur from smoke inhalation (sensitivities, allergies, colds). Reppie did the best with the resources available for him or her. It was NOT his or her responsibility to make policy decisions.
Our Onboard Computer?
IT JUST DOES WHAT IT IS TOLD, plus what your biological programming, Ego experience and SuperEgo education have given it as means for helping you survive. It does its job just fine as long as one's Personal Spirit is managing the Identity Team. The more that your Ego or SuperEgo take over the decision-making, the more difficult they make the effectiveness of your Unconscious. It is busy keeping you alive and healthy.
YOUR EGO and SUPEREGO often want EXTREMES of behavior and emotion and call for tactics (actions) which are in conflict with safety and security. The more you overload a computer, the slower it runs, until it stops ... dead. Your Unconscious is no different. It will carry out all of the routine and boring functions necessary to keep your good ship sailing. If you do not provide a pilot, or, if the pilot is poorly trained, self-indulgent, or uncooperative --- you are in trouble.
A STRONG UNCONSCIOUS is either the result of a strong Personal Spirit which is managing the Identity Team, or, the summation of a collection of Energy Blocks. As you build Energy Blocks, you will acquire more and more chronic illnesses. These can produce body damage which may be unrepairable and may invite more chronic illness development. Balancing will NOT recondition your organs, muscles, tendons, or spine. Other choices are available to those ends.
Too many Energy Blocks = death.
A strong Personal Spirit can delay this tragedy.
It can provide the Unconscious with added energy and stamina.
It can request Higher Self guidance for optimal decision-making and health maintenance and instruct the Ego and SuperEgo to help the Unconscious carry out these requirements. Our Unconscious is like a powerful tool. The other parts which make up our Identity can either use it constructively or destructively ... to their benefit or peril.
Rules, Expectations, Assumptions.
IF YOU KNOW and UNDERSTAND the responsibilities of your Unconscious, you will also be able to appreciate, develop and control its reactions.
CAPABILITIES & TENDENCIES of our Unconscious.
- All that I am aware of, I have recorded for life;
- The more I perform an activity, the more automatic it will be;
- Intensity of experience (trauma) gives power to my authority;
- Response is immediate: it's needed, it's done, you asked;
- Patterns, patterns, patterns ... sequences are reality here;
- Information in = information out (plus Your programming).
Potential Benefits.
HOW our Unconscious best assists us in our lives.
Do you really want to give up any of these?
- ... fast response for survival;
- ... less anxiety, doubt, caution, fear, pride = easier coping;
- ... provides a foundation for memory use = enables recall;
- ... enables recall of details & experience = intelligence;
- ... conserves brain activity and energy use = focus;
- ... responsible for your stamina = provides consistency;
- ... optimum preparation for repeatable behaviors = survival.
To get rid of your Unconscious is to physically die.
The challenge is to manage, not coerce, distract, ignore, take-for-granted.
To assertively and responsibly carry out that goal, one should clearly recognize both sides of the benefit-disadvantage scale.
Frequent Errors.
IF WE KNOW THE WEAKNESSES of our Unconscious we can guard against them.
Without self-awareness we can have no effective self-direction. Without self-direction, there is little success.
- ... adapts with difficulty to change,
Whatever I do not know is irrelevant;
- ... only focus is that of experience,
If I haven't done it, it is not an option;
- ... cannot tell reality from recognition,
If I am not aware of it, it does not exist;
- ... ritualistic
Whatever has been done in the past is the best solution, always;
- ... passive
I will do whatever is impressed upon me as preferable;
- ... circumstances and capability dictate
which options are available and will be selected;
- ... always wants
what is most safe and secure for the physical self;
- ... often made destructive by Energy Blocks
addictive, compulsive, obsessive, irrelevant actions;
- ... attracted to stability, security, repetition
supports any action which increases these perceptions;
- ... can automate
turns all responses into reactions,uses robot-like behaviors;
- ... gives what it gets
garbage in = garbage out: mirrors & magnifies what it senses.
Demands of Teamwork.
Self-direction demands that we acknowledge reality.
To know reality is to ...
- make decisions for today leading to tomorrow;
- humbly go where others fear to go for lack of guidance;
- acknowledge that others can do many things better than you;
- appreciate the gifts and limits of your Basic Personality;
- empower your Personal Spirit by deterring and avoiding abuse;
- respect your Reptilian unconscious for its survival concerns;
- reward and discipline your Ego for its assistance;
- caution and plan with your SuperEgo for the long-term;
- give thanks for the guidance of your Higher Self.
Get real, or you will go nowhere fast.
Managing Your Unconscious.
Your Unconscious is expressing itself continuously through every second of your physical life in hundreds of ways from your breathing rate to the beating of your heart and the signal generations and transfers of your cells. It never wants to be a leader. It can't want. It can only do. It acts in reaction to changes in its surroundings. It tries to maintain a physiological balance.
To the extent that our Ego and SuperEgo utilize it, we have conscious memory and recall, habits and trained skills. If they cannot cope with their decision-making requirements, the Unconscious makes its best guess for survival. If such is traumatic desperation --- it cements that reaction into an Energy Block. A record of which tactic worked once in an emergency is made.
THERE IS NO STRATEGY.
The Unconscious simply takes an action and here we still are.
The Unconscious has hundreds of processes to monitor and balance.
The Unconscious does not have time for interferences.
Any newly required action forced upon it becomes a new automatic response --- an Energy Block ... until Balancing Therapy, or, some other powerful positive stress reframes or dissolves away that hardwire connection.
TO BEST MANAGE THE UNCONSCIOUS, you must selectively choose to use its talents in the most positive manner. You must also unburden it and allow it to do what it was designed to do. You are responsible for the strategy. Here are some guidelines:
- Appoint your Personal Spirit as the Manager of your Identity Team;
- Know and build on the features of your Basic Personality;
- Be aware of and acknowledge the positive contributions of your Ego;
- Keep a record of Guided decisions and their positive outcomes;
- Note and remind your Ego of inappropriate decisions it encouraged;
- Get going on releasing your Energy Blocks and increasing your skills;
- Take adequate rest so that your Unconscious can do its maintenance;
- Learn about Hypersensitivities and avoid or recover from them so that ...
... your Unconscious is not distracted and overburdened with chronic illness.
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