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Cognitive Associations

Posted on February 5, 2019 by rjgraham

Better Relating By Changing Cognitive Associations By Lorraine S Danella Sometimes you just don’t know what came over you. You reacted without thinking, and caused someone you love pain. Or you sabotaged…

Awareness by itself is not enough: it must be joined by mastery. We need gradually to develop a steering ability to keep ourselves from slipping mechanically into this or that sub-personality. Thus we become able to identify with each part of our being as we wish. We can have more choice. It is the difference between being impotently transported by a roller coaster and, instead, driving a car and being able to choose which way to go and for what purpose to make the journey

— Piero Ferrucci, What We May Be, p. 51