Cultural alexithymia A problem somewhere in experiencing or expressing or resolving your emotional state. Scientific studies concluded 10-15% have it but Doug Tatary peronal experience as a clinical was 85%-95%
The brain is modular and people argue about which modules. Big picuture about the brain is that we have
This trichotomy is recreated every 10 to 15 years
| BEF | MacLean's Triune brain model | | Pop Culture | Vajrayana Buddhism | Gurdjieff | | ------------------ | ---------------------------- | --------------- | ------------------- | ------------------- | | Physical Brain | Reptilian complex | Jocks | Body | Moving Centre | | Emotional Brain | Paleomammalian complex | Artsie Types | Speech | Emotional Centre | | Intellectual Brain | Neomammalian complex | Nerds and Geeks | Mind | Intellectual Centre |
Our Culture is biased thowards physical and intellectual. There is arts and dance etc. but no real understanding for the emotional layer.
Why we miss the understanding of the emotional brain if we evolved through the layers. In the blue layer of Intergral Theory - Evolutionary Development there was so space to show emotions. The system depended on it.
You are going to cry, i will give you something to cry about. It was traditional to stop crying.
Now we are primed for the emotional layer but not equiped to answer. Instead of the emotion we tell stories, metaphores or believes
Any intense interpersonal encounter that is not fully experienced and expressed (resolve) will become part of your sense of self or worldview instead of something that happened to you.
Interpersonal feelings elicit core feelings which in turn elicit emotions (and their behaviours)
Contrasting affect:
Happy, Said, Angry, Fairful
Joy, Saidness, Anger, Fair, Shame
feeling your way through a problem vs thinking/contemplating trough a problem
Feeling believes
Working with Emotions: What is Emotional Processing? Emotional processing, according to the Bio-Emotive Framework, is the explicit choice to integrate the rational, emotional, and somatic aspects of an experience or conflict that isn't going away.
Physically, we slow down and feel our body. We acknowledge that we have a nervous system and a fight/flight response. We acknowledge that we get triggered and that those triggers show up inside our physical body, as tension, pain, or the inability to sit still, for example.
Intellectually, we acknowledge that we have a story or a rationalization about what's going on that we cling to, which justifies our behaviors, viewpoints, and mindsets.
Emotionally, we acknowledge that there is a historical activation that is being brought up in the present moment, which is clouding our ability to make our highest and best choices. Underlying our narrative (intellect) we have feelings we must feel and release.
emotional-brain Within the emotional domain of processing, there as an entire world to explore and become friends with. Our emotional brain (Limbic System), developed before the neocortex, and is actually fluent in the language of emotion which image, association, and symbolism.
By learning to follow those associations and images, we learn to find the subtle and subconscious mapping patterns that started living in us at a young age. Once we understand these internal maps, we can begin to create new internal maps that serve our needs, rather than old fears.