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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 des-cription 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, repressing, 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 wide-spread 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 (person-ality), their other subselves' need to distort drops, and clear perceptions of reality increase. Among other benefits, this pro-motes effective communication and problem solving. Family Project 1 provides an effective way to reduce false-self wounds and distortions. more detail / slides / Lesson-1 index and guidebook / close |
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