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Your personality is the evolving mosaic of beliefs, values, talents, limitations, memories, reflexes, priorities, fears, perceptions, and ha-bits that makes you unique among all living and dead humans. Clinical research suggests that your personality results from a dynamic group of subselves like the talented members of an orchestra or sports team. Each subself is semi-independent, has its own goals, gifts, and limits, and experiences the world uniquely. Each
subself (or "part") can ally with, ignore, dis/trust, respect, scorn, or conflict with
every other subself. Your inner family of
sub-selves can range between harmonious and purposeful to chaotic and
unfocused, depending on
who leads it locally and over
time.
Survivors of
low-nurturance
childhoods tend to have personalities ruled by exces-sively shamed, guilty,
fearful, confused, and
angry subselves
and pro-tective
Guardians - a
"false self" - until the person decides
to meet and harmonize their team under the expert guidance of their resident
true Self.
Lesson 1
here and the
related
guidebook
provide a
framework for doing this safely and effectively over time.
Curious? Try
interviewing one of your subselves... |
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