Concepts, labels, and categories.
My job is to continue to introduce as many perspectives as possible to surround the idea that we receive information, categorize it, and file it away. We bring that information back up later to help us make sense of what’s going on inside us in reflection to the world outside us. Examining this process in hopes that we can unravel the things that aren’t creating the outcomes we want and also to discover what’s working well so we can do that more.
We’re encoded with a certain framework in childhood. Actually many, many different constucts that make up our framework AKA reality. As we develop, what we experience continues to be grouped into horribly organized ways with the main purpose of us being more efficient and safe from danger. The purpose is safety. When we live through a lense that’s main intention is to be safe we compromise all sorts of other imporatant things.
What happens is that all of our experiences in the future are simply conceptualizations from our past that are projected back out onto the things and people in our lives. An unconscious entity inside us seeks to substantiate and make sense of what happened in the past and how we can continue to create a “reality” that’s familiar. You can argue all you want but you’re the one who brings it forward.
We must face one of the things that terrifies us the most… the unkown. Familiar, no matter how unhealthy and dysfunctional is something we’re wired to sustain if we’re bent on safety. The opposite of familiar is unknown. Embracing measured risk is one of our mechanisms for change. When we embrace risk and moved towards the foreign and unknown, fear will show up and we have to have the courage to stay the course. (Keep the train moving down the tracks towards transformationville.)