Posted by Larry Hoover on December 20, 2005, at 12:47:30
In reply to emotional encapsulation, posted by alexandra_k2 on December 20, 2005, at 0:46:59
> (depends on your theory of reference)
More than anything, your schema, including frame of reference to self, is the key cognitive element for adaptation.
> emotional responses may be (but are not always) encapsulated from cognition.
> the way to change it...
>
> is experience.
>
> (alteration of the reinforcement contingencies)And, that experience need not be real. It can be cognitive, pure thought.
> that some emotions...
> aren't able to be modified by thinking.
> when the emotions get too intense...
> thinking goes off line.Although that may have been past experience, need it be present and future? I say no.
These emotional quanta, packets, can be watched for, identified, and .....(big and).... modified, or substituted or switched for another.
> so what are ya supposed to do?
> i'm f*cked if i know.If you can get to a place I call pseudo-objectivity, a state of observation, you can learn to change the process in real time.
These emotional packets that have made thinking go offline, the hot button, the trigger, take time to happen. And in that time, there are intervals of opportunity to suspend what is taking place.
Like a tape in a tape recorder, new or substitute or altered versions of the emotional capsule can be created, edited.....when the trigger comes, something different emerges, in the end....
The drugs I'm on for pain, place a struggle on my brain....
The opportunity to do this, I believe, relies on the learned capability of going into observer mode. You learn to become alerted, to identify the type of emotional capsule being launched, to alter the course of events, such that thinking does not go offline, and that intensity does not come.
I'm speaking ideally. I've done it. I do it better (not better....wiser?) with each opportunity that life brings me. I also fail at it. But I observe, and I improve. (Thus the wiser.)
I hope I made sense. My brain relents. <sigh>
Lar
poster:Larry Hoover
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