This is an excellent breakdown. This is exactly the theory I also use when talking to people about trauma informed spaces. The patterns become fully evident within the built environment.
I agree that the idea that what we call reality is often just a repetition of what our system learned early on. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately — how we don’t just adapt once, but then start living inside that adaptation as if it’s the truth about who we are. And over time it becomes so seamless that it doesn’t even feel like a pattern anymore, it feels like reality itself. What I’m starting to see is that it’s not just mental — it lives in the body in a very real way. The hesitation, the contraction, the pull to either hold back or overcompensate — all of it feels like the body already decided something before we consciously did. And maybe that’s why it’s so hard to step out of it. Because we’re not just changing a thought — we’re questioning a reality we’ve been living in for years.
This is an excellent breakdown. This is exactly the theory I also use when talking to people about trauma informed spaces. The patterns become fully evident within the built environment.
Mate, another wonderfully clear explication of the dynamic process that impacts us all.
I agree that the idea that what we call reality is often just a repetition of what our system learned early on. I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately — how we don’t just adapt once, but then start living inside that adaptation as if it’s the truth about who we are. And over time it becomes so seamless that it doesn’t even feel like a pattern anymore, it feels like reality itself. What I’m starting to see is that it’s not just mental — it lives in the body in a very real way. The hesitation, the contraction, the pull to either hold back or overcompensate — all of it feels like the body already decided something before we consciously did. And maybe that’s why it’s so hard to step out of it. Because we’re not just changing a thought — we’re questioning a reality we’ve been living in for years.