A Path Through the Jungle a psychological health and well-being program to develop robustness and resilience by Professor Steve Peters.
On Quantum Leap book club. We are looking at stage two now. Stage two overall is about managing emotional reactions. Now if you’ve never had an emotional reaction or never seen anyone have an emotional reaction, you could probably stop reading now, unless you’re curious!
Following are moments from the book that I found key from Unit 4.
Stage 2 Managing emotional reactions, has 4 units: 3-step processes of managing your Chimp, then the chimp as your best friend, how to nurture your chimp and last, but definitely not least, managing your drives. This last one is not the lovely drives through the countryside. It’s the drive for sex, food, defending yourself, and others, proving your right, acknowledgement, perfection and so much more.
Highly recommend getting this book, and or downloading from your favourite audiobook provider. Path Through the Jungle is one book where the hardcopy really is super to have as it’s full of diagrams and at the end of each chapter includes areas for you focus and specific exercises to do.
So to 3 ways to manage your Chimp.
If something has occurred and you feel triggered, or even if you don’t feel triggered, and you just find yourself, actively responding, whether it be putting the piece of chocolate cake in your mouth, or defending yourself before the three second thought when someone says something. Or I could be the internal dialogue, that’s not so uplifting. Here are three ways to work out what to do when your champ is acting in ways that your human would prefer it not.
1. Exercising the chimp. This means expressing it allowed to give its emotional response. Important points do this I know who you are sharing this with. Great to have a person particular friend or even someone somewhat anonymous like a counsellor in Short. Anyone who knows that this is about allowing you to release the valve of a motion and not need to start putting more energy and focus to that. In exercising the temper express the emotion. As Adele Alama said there is sometimes when if the conch shell is blocked, we just blow it out. This however does not mean going over and over and Over story that brings up negative emotion. No does it help necessarily to continue recounting, something that makes you angry and on the contrary, this will reinforce the neural, firing on the circuitry and emotions and increase the bodies exposure to those emotions energy in motion, which is carried by little particles such that can become an addiction to the emotions. So what we’re saying here is a one off let out the steam. That’s exercising the champ.
2. Second process is about keeping the chimp in its place, and the term is used his boxing, the chimp. This isn’t coercive or forcing it’s listening to the concerns of the chimp, and with each of the concern expressed outwardly they speaking it out to see ability to address those concerns.
Addressing of the concerns can be by oneself because they can be that when you speak it out or even write it in a journal, you can then look back on it, and what may have come from the chimp or the prefrontal cortex, the emotional part of the brain sometimes called the reactive part does the ability for the other parts of the brain and this model referred to as the human or the dorsolateral components of the brain, this side of your head, where there is more focus on integrating, assessing reasoning, thinking when this is able to be applied to the concerns that off on an aha moment, or something made in reality, be less daunting than what it appears justice and emotion. That’s what we’re talking about here is addressing the concerns of the cheap pretend means the emotion doesn’t have to keep coming up.
We address the concerns with the truth. In the model, there’s different types of truths, there’s a truth that, just as a truth, like most planes, do not crush, and then there’s a different type of truth, which is a type of truth specifically is a useful for that particular person particular concerns. No only you know the particular concerns that feel addressed by any particular truth, so this is an exercise that you find yourself and can’t be through journaling or talking with a trusted person.
3. The third way is by having a plan. For me, a plan means being actively engaged (what in the model is called the human). I see it as the conscious mind. If I ask, who’s talking? I’m seeking to know is it the unconscious, potentially unresolved story-line chimp, or is it the one that has access to all the available information in a present moment, the human.
Forming a plan is something we install in the computer. As we heard earlier the computer is a support for the chimp in that the computer being faster than the chimp is able to provide reassuring information before the chimp spirals into the reactive potential.
It could be the example of knowing that you’re going somewhere with a lot of tasty food of types that you wish not to overeating so you create a plan before you go there so the champ is not left alone to try and control itself, when it will be reaching for the drive of feeling the delight of all the food.
This is about appreciating and keeping the colour and interest and passion that chimp brings to our world, and at the same time, providing it with support and information and go to information already stored in the computer, said it can feel secure in a setting. This enables us to develop and keep healthy habits and feel good about ourselves all the components of our self.
Activity:
Is there a current thing that happens regularly where your Chimp hijacks you and you find you’ve done an action or said/thought something you’d said you wanted to stop?
If so then you could give this a go and write down one of these and apply the 3 processes.
I did, thought I didn’t have time however in doing it my mind was freed up, felt better and thus more capable in what was needed.
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