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Starting in infancy, humans instinctively use their senses and minds to discern meaning and make "sense" of their local and larger worlds. "Reality" is our current perception and description of what is true or real. People raised in low nurturance childhoods usually develop a protective "false self" to survive. A common false-self strategy and trait is to mis-perceive reality by denying, repres-sing, rationalizing, exaggerating, idealizing, minimizing, projecting, intellectualizing, catastrophizing, and assuming. The master false-self distortion is denying these - "I'm not distorting reality!" Reality distortion is one of six widespread false-self wounds in typical survivors of early-childhood neglect. When people ruled by false selves intentionally empower their true Self to lead and harmonize their inner family (personality), their other subselves' need to distort drops, and clear perceptions of reality increase. Among other major benefits, this encourages effective communication and problem solving. Family Project 1 provides an effective way to reduce false-self wounds and distort-ions. more detail / slides / Project-1 index and guidebook / close |
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