All new experiences are filtered through past experiences.
Angela Jean
Do you know why you snap and react in certain situations?
I have learned through Bruce D. Perry, MD, Phd, that the reptilian part of the brain keeps you safe in the (fight, flight, or freeze) mode, essentially having a trap door that closes. Once this is engaged, the information that triggered you can no longer reach the cortex of the mind where rational thinking happens.
So what do you do about that?
This is why learning to take a few deep breaths before you react is imperative to creating change. It will allow the information to track from the base of your mind, to the top of your mind where rational thinking happens.
Lets circle back now to why you "snap" out of the blue?
Well, there is nothing out of the blue about it, it is a lifetime of encoding. What happened to you in your early life relationships has shaped these neural networks and have encoded your neurons for future sensory stimuli.
We shape neural networks which will encode in neurons and store information for further sensory stimuli. All new experiences are filtered through past experiences.
The neurologist systems which mediate all social interactions, empathy, communication, and the ability to bond are all shaped by the nature, quantity, and timing of early life relationships.
Conclusion
You can’t undo or delete old patterns, but you can build new associations & healthy default pathways. Build a new road through repetition with the new and eventually the old one you don’t use will fade to the background.
Your past will hold you hostage until you train yourself to let go!
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