http://glasseraustralia.com/ Ignite the Power of Choice Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:57:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 http://glasseraustralia.com/perception-and-reality-cath-whalan/#comment-60 Tue, 01 Apr 2025 05:57:08 +0000 https://glasseraustralia.com/?p=14887#comment-60 Thank you Cath for sharing your thoughts on Perception. I recently attended a recorded, online workshop with Bessel van der Kolk. A big take away for me was the brain research he presents in the workshop, on how trauma effects the body, the brain. For me simply stated, how the emotional brain is highly fired up; after trauma, perceived trauma, neglect, abuse, and one can include continual critique, (maybe receiving controlling habits from another person?) and how this impacts on how one perceives the situation. The fired up right brain Emotional brain, causes the thinking brain, Per-frontal cortex, to be out of order, not thinking properly. So one is reacting. This is what Chris Argyris describes as well, the reaction, that we may hold our beliefs subconsciously. I interpreted Van der Kolk’s words as that our rational mind goes off-line, and we are then subject to the emotional response, often irrational, and from created habits and expectations from our warning, alert emotional system, as” it is happening again”, I cant handle it”, or other negative beliefs that come from the old experience. I do like how you quoted John Dewey: “we do not learn from experience… we learn from reflecting on experience’.. And then having the courage to make the decision, the choice, to reconnect with the rational, thinking mind, and respond using the caring habits, with focus on the quality of the relationship, from internal psychology.

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