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Mindsight

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a kind of focused attention that allows us to see the internal workings of our own minds; includes insight, empathy, and integration

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What are the three fundamental principles of mindsight?

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something we naturally have the capacity for, but must be cultivated through practical steps; how we focus our attention shapes the structure of our brain (neuroplasticity); well-being emerges when we create connections in our lives-when we learn to use mindsight to help the brain achieve and maintain integration (a process by which separate elements are linked together into a working whole)

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Mind

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an embodied and relational process that regulates the flow (movement across time) of energy and information

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Senses 1-5

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ability to perceive the outside world (sight, sound, smell, touch, taste)

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6th Sense

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the ability to perceive our internal states (rapidly beating heart, butterflies in stomach, pain from injury)

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7the Sense

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ability to perceive our mind (see and shape inner workings of our mind, reflect on experience) ie Mindsight

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Triune Brain

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brain stem, limbic system, and cortex

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Brain Stem

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reptilian brain; survival drives

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Limbic System

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old mammalian brain; emotions and attachments; amygdala (fear response) and hippocampus (master “puzzle assembler)

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The Cortex

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new mammalian brain; includes occipital, parietal, and temporal lobes; frontal cortex (allows us to think about thinking); posterior cortex (mapmaker of physical experience); prefrontal cortex 9sense of self and moral judgment); middle frontal region (connects everything)

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What are the different mindsight maps?

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me-map, you-map, we-map

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Me-Map

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gives us insight to ourselves; without a me-map we can become swept up in our thoughts or flooded by our feelings

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You-Map

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insight into others; without a you-map we see only others behaviors, the physical aspect of reality, without sensing the subjective core, the inner mental sea of others

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We-Map

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representations of our relationships; without a we-map, we are unable to perceive the mind within ourselves or others

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Triangle of Well-Being

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mind, brain, and relationships are not separate elements of life- they are irreducible aspects of one interconnected triangle of well being; in it you have the mind (insight, awareness, intention, and focused attention), relationships (attachments impact our physical brain structure), and the brain (the extended nervous system throughout our body)

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What are the nine prefrontal functions lost during meltdown?

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bodily regulation, attuned communication, emotional balance, response flexibility, fear modulation, empathy, insight, moral awareness, and intuition

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What are the components of reflection?

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openness, observation, and objectivity

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Energy

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“ability to do stuff”; whether it be thinking something or physically doing something or anything of the likes

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Information

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anything that symbolizes something other than itself; such as words you read or hear

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Energy and information…

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go hand in hand in the movement of our minds

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Flow

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because they change across time, we can sense their movement from one moment to the next in a dynamic, fluid, moving process

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The essence of subjective experience is…

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the minds redulation that creates new patterns of energy and information flow; when we then continue to monitor and modify

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Mind is a Regulatory Process

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like driving or “regulating” a car; you must both be aware of its motion and its position in space and also be able to influence how it moves

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Embodied

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the regulation of energy and information flow happens, in part, in the body

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Relational

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relationships are the way we share energy and information flow; our minds are created within relationships-including the one we have with ourselves

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Mirror Neurons

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considered the root of empathy in humans; premotor area of our frontal cortex; we see an act and we ready ourselves to imitate it; at the most complex level is can help us understand the nature of culture and how our shared behaviors bind us together, mind to mind

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Integration

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the key mechanism beneath both the absense of illness and the presence of well-being; the linkage of differentiated elements of a system; illuminates a direct path towards health

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Complexity Theory

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examines systems that are capable of becoming chaotic and are open to receiving input from outside themselves; a system that moves toward complexity is the most stable and adaptiveI

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Illness =

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disharmony or stagnation; wherever I put my finger, on whatever symptom of whatever dysfunction, there was an example of chaos, rigidity or both

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Coherence =

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health

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What is the acronym (and meaning) of an integrated brain/system?

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FACES; Flexible, Adaptive, Coherent, Energized, Stable

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What are the eight domains of intergration?

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integration of consciousness (the “hub of awareness”); horizontal integration (right and left hemispheres working together); vertical integration (nervous system, limbic system, and cortex); memory intergration (focusing on layers of memories); narrative integration (making “sense” of the narrative of our lives); state integration (differentiating “multiple selves”); interpersonal integration (the “we: of well being); temporal integration (sense of time and mortality)

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The Wheel of Awareness

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Sigel uses this model as a “picture of the mind” as well as a minfulness practice; hub, spokes, rim

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Hub (of the Wheel of Awareness)

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represents the inner place of the mind from which we become aware

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Spoke (of the Wheel of Awareness)

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represent how we direct our attention to a particular part of the rim

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Rim ( of the Wheel of Awareness)

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represents anything we can pay attention to, such as our thoughts and feelings, or our perceptions of the outside world, or the sensations from the body

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Neuroplasticity

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the brain changes physically in response to experience and new mental skills can be acquired with intentional effort, with focused awarenss and concentration; experience activates neural firing, which in turn leads to the production of proteins that enable new connections to be made among neurons

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Mindfulness

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is a form of mental activity that ttrains the mind to become aware of awareness itself and to pay attentions to ones own intention; it teaches self observation; practitioner are able to describe with words the internal seascape of the mind

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Jonathan and Mindfulness

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when Jonathans mind wandered from an awareness of his breath, he’d simply note this distraction and gentrly return his attention to his breathing; awareness training is a skill building practive in which the musical instrument is your mind; tripod of awareness

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Jonathan: Results

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over time, Jonathan learned to ward off an impending “low road” meltdown by noticing his change in bodily state (his pounding heart, churning belly, tense fists) and then the very act of noticing would soothe him; Jonathon was edperiencing the power of a stabilized awareness of the mind to achieve mental equilibrium; Jonathon was growing his middle prefrontal integrative fibers; he could now sit in the sanctuary of his newfound awarenss without being swept up by the mental activities that used to overwhelm him

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Left Hemisphere

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is more removed from these raw subcortical sources- from our physical sensations, our brainstem survival reactions, and our limbic feelings and attachments; later devloping, linear, linguistic, logical, literal, labels and lists

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Right Hemisphere

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more directly connected to the subcortical areas of the brain; nonverbal, images, metaphors, whole body sense, raw emotion, stress reduction, and autobiographical memory

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Left and Right Hemisphere

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but these are not absolute direections; normal life weaves these right dominant activities into the equally important but different left dominant information flow; when the two hemispheres collaborate, we achieve “bilateral” or “horizontal” integration; when one mode dominates the other for long periods rigidity and/or chaos results

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Developing the Right Hemisphere

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our goal (siegel said) was to help him (stuart) develop a more balanced whole brain-to add new right hemisphere abilities and reinforce his already well-developed left side; included bodily sensations, nonverbal communication, imgaery

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SNAG

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stands for Stiumulate Neuronal Activation and Growth

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Stuarts’ Rebalanced Brain

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our focus on his bodily sensations built interoception; reflection and journal writing opened his awareness to feelings; and imagery work strengthened his ability to attend to nonverbal experiences; these essential elements of empathy are all forms of integration; he had come to understand that his parents coldness must have been so painful that he just retreated into his schoolwork, then into his profession, and lost touch with others and with himsefl

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What did Anne do to escape the pain?

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she adapted to a painful situation by shutting off awareness of her feelings; Anne’s decision to “never feel anything again” had effectively shut off the body proper from the neck down; if we can find a way to block our subcortical input, if we can keep it from traveling upward into our consciousness-creating cortex, we have eliminated our feelings

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Adaptions

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we all employ adaptations in response to certain situations; adapatations can take many forms, from avoiding our feelings momentarily whenw e are overwhelmed, to long term shutoffs, or to shutdowns like Annes

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Fight/Flight Response

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the brainstem also works with the limbic area and cortex to assess safety or danger; if we think we can handle the situation, we enter the fight or flight state of alert

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Freeze Response

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the brainstem also works with the limbic area and cortex to assess safety or danger; if we believe we are helpless, that there is nothing we can do to save ourselves, we freeze or collapse

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Safe Space

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a space that Anne could always retreat to; an image in her mind that she could draw upon to soothe herself whenever uncomfortable feelings arose

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What results did Anne achieve?

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Anne feels more present in the room now; she holds herself differently; she seems at home in her body, her movements more fluid and relaxed; she says that she no longer feels empty inside

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Normal Dissociation

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a kind of willing suspension of disbelief; of getting lost in imagination

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Implicit Memory

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encodes our perceptions, our emotions, and our bodily sensations; also harnesses the brains capacity to generalize from experience, which is how we construct mental models from repeated events; creates something called priming (in which the brain readies itself to respond to a certain fashion); does not require active recall

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What are the six domains of implicit memory?

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perception, emotion, bodily sensation, behavior, mental models, priming; drawing on these implicit elements from the past, the brain–our association organ and anticiaption machine– continually readies us for the future

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What are the three unique features of implicit memory?

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you do not need to use focal, conscious attention for the creation–the encoding–of implicit memory; when an implicit memory emergers from storage, you do not have the sensation that something is being recalled from the past; implicit memory does not require participation of the hippocampus

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Implicit Memory does not equal….

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unconscious memory; an implicit-only memory is experienced in consciousness but is not “tagged” or felt as something emerging from the past; this is quite different from the idea of “unconscious memory” which implies something buried, inaccessible, or “repressed” and kept from everyday awareness; a reactivated implicit memory is fully conscious, it just lacks the sensation of recall

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Explicit Memory

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we do have the feeling that we are bringing something from the past into our awareness; episodic memory (remembering yourself in a single episode of your life)

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Hippocampus in the Right Hemisphere

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works closely with the other limbic areas, such as the fear generating amygdala, to couple the details of an experience with the emotional tone and meaning of that event

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Hippocampus in the Left Hemisphere

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builds our factual and linguistic knowledge; in the right it organizes the building blocks of our life story according to time and topic

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Hippocampus

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like a “puzzle master” which draws together the separate pieces of images and sensations of implicit memory into the assembled “picture” of factual and autobiographical memory

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Going Back to a Flashback

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a flashback might be the result of the activation of a implicit only memory of a traumatic experience; because the hippocampus had been blocked, the ram moment to moment fragments of the experience remained as free floating implicit puzzle pieces in disarray; under the stress of the extreme trauma he had undergone, Bruce has been filled with terror and collapsed from shock; under such highly stressful conditions, the fight-flight-freeze reponse floods the body with the hormone cortisol (a chemical that blocks hippocampal function)

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Adult Attachment Interview (AAI)

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consists of questions like: what was your childhood like? what was your relationship with each parent? etc; accepts that memory is fallible; narrative analysis is not looking for factual accuracy but rather the coherence of the story

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Secure Attachment

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feel seen, soothed, and safe; children: these were teh children whos parents were sensitive to baby bids for connection, who could read teh babys signals and then effectively meet his needs; Adults: Rebecca could openly talk about her past, balance the positive and negative, reflect on her understanding, moves easily between the memories and her reflections of them

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Avoidant Attachment

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“I am alone and on my own”; children: focused on toys or exploring theroom, showed no signs of distress or anger when the parent left, and igner her or actively avoided her when she returned; adults: dismissing state of mind; example: Stuart

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Ambivalent/Preoccupied Attachment

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“I need other but can not depend on them”; children: seems wary or distressed even before the separation, seeks out parent upon reunion but is not readily soothed; adults: can result in emotional entanglement; ex) greg

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Disorganized Attachment

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“At time I fall apart, so I can not depend on myself”; children: may look terrified; approaches parent but then withdrawals, freezes or falls down or clings and cries while also pulling away, the child can not find any effective means to cope; adults: when our experiences are terrifying and overwhelming, the mind may fragment and become disorganized; ex) Julie

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Matthews Multiple Selves

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NOT dissociative identity disorder; “Business self” and “ladies man self”; healthy development is not about creating a single “self” that is a homogenized uniform entity; rather healthy development involves coming to acknowledge, accept, adn tehn to integrate ones various states: to discover how disparate states can link, and even collaborate as a unified whole compose of many parts

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Five Assumptions of Internal Family Systems (IFS)

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the mind is naturally subdivided into multiple parts or subpersonalities; the subpersonalities compose the self and self leads the internal system thats made up of subpersonalities; there are no “bad” subpersonalities, IFS does not pretend to eliminate any part, but rather help them find a non-extreme role that does not impact the whole system; subpersonalities develop as you grow, forming complex interactions among themselves, but system can be reorganized and when this happens parts and interactions change too; internal (self) and external (environment) systems affect each other, so when one changes teh one will tend to do so too

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Self-States

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combine to create our personality; these are the many selves, whether receptive or reactive, that make up the person we call “myself”; self-states are part of everyones life, even if we have no history of trauma

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State Integration: Inter

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we must accept our multiplicity, the fact that we can show up quite differently in our athletic, intellectual, sexual etc states; the notion that we can have a single totally consisten way of being is both idealistic and unhealthy

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Integration: Intra

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a state needs internal coherence in order to function; to achieve its goal effectively without internal disintegration

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Integration: We

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involves who we are in relationships; “we-state” without being totally obliterated by this joining; becoming open to this we-state of mind requires us to be vulnerable and receptive

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Helping Matthew

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therapy for matthew required a dual focus of attention–one tracking his moment to moment experience in the past or with the women he was now having relationships with, the other grounded firmly in the present, with me in the room with him

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Denise and Peter’s Attachment Styles

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Peter had a generally preoccupied nrrative that revealed his continuing concern with leftover issues from his child; Denise had a dismissing narrative that minimized her need for others (both then, in her childhood, and now); Peter tended toward chaos while Denise tended toward rigidity; they were trapped on opposite banks of the river of integration

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Receptivity and Reactivity

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Receptivity- our experience of being safe and seen; reactivity- our fight/flight/freeze survival reflex

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The Essence of Mindsight

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we must look inward to know our own internal world before we can map clearly the internal state, the mind, of the other,; as we grow in our ability to know ourselves we become receptive to knowing each other; and as a “we” is women into the neurons of our mirroring brain, even oru sense of self is illuminated by the light of our connection; with internal awareness and empathy, self-empowerment and joining, differentiation and linkage, we create harmony within the resonating circuits of our social brains

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Confronting Uncertainty and Mortality

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the prefrontal cortex enables our mind to plan, dream, imagine, and reflect-and to continually reinvent itself as life moves forward; it creates the seemingly infinite potential of the human mind; but there capacities come at a price; we need to remain open to the wisdome of our whole selves as well, to listen to teh intuition that is also the gift of the prefrontal cortex; we tehn can not only check, but ultimately feel, with clarity, that we have taken care of what needs to be done; wrestling with transcience and mortality requires that we dive beneath the illusion of permanence and seek deeper meaning in our lives

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Temporal Integration

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the way we differentiate our longings for certainty, permanence, and immortality from-an link them with-the reality of life’s uncertainty, transience and mortality

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OCD and Checkers

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individuals with OCD often feel “stuck” in a thought pattern or behavioral habit they just can not escape…if they enact the compulsion, or think in a certain way, such as counting or repeating a special verbal formula, they believe that bad things will be avoided; checkers do this through SAM: Scan for danger, sounds an Alert of fear, and Motivates us to take action; OCD can also stand for “Overactive Checker Deployment”

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Physiology of OCD

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the overactive circuits of OCD involve the same areas of our middle prefrontal cortex that alert us when we have made a mistake; the brainstem survival reflexes, coupled with the emotion of fear, feed back to the cortical areas, motivating us to search for danger, whether or not it is truly there

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How to Deal with Uncertainty

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serenity, courage, and wisdom are at the heart of temporal intergration; serenity, courage and wisdom: these mindful traits emerge when we acknowledge the mind’s drive for certainty and permanence and then refocus our attention on accepting our place in the order of things

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