An event happens, say someone in our household disagrees with us.  I mean, it could happen.  And we RESPOND.   How much of our response is OUR DECISION?

    How much of our response is the mindless, (ouch, I know, that’s a rough word), automatic defensiveness of our EMOTIONAL GUIDANCE SYSTEM? 

    You remember our EGS.  That part of our brains which CANNOT TOLERATE ANXIETY.  That part of our brains that seeks ONE THING–relief from anxiety.  That part of our brains able to ignore the fact that what we are doing IS NOT WORKING.

That part of our brain that DOESN’T LEARN from experience.   But, just bulls on through.  That part of our brain . . .

that believes we have NO CONTROL.     And we do. 

 And what does all this have to do with the sect in El Dorado?  The living dead women?

Later . . . tonight.

mysteryshrink @ April 22, 2008