This post explores the relationshop between various modalities:
IFS – SYSTEMS AND PARTS
NB:
YOU MUST BE THE CHANGE YOU WANT TO SEE IN THE WORLD!
JUSTICE IS WON INTERNALLY WITH IFS NOT AGAINST AN EXTERNAL ENEMY!
The following modalities work much better and become longer lasting when they are applied on a regular daily basis – if only for a few minutes. The more frequent you adopt positive patterns, the more the brain starts to wire itself so the sub-conscious takes them for granted.
You can replace old bad patterns with new positive ones’ – if you know what to do.
Internal Family Systems:
Your traumatised parts seek to manage triggers for you. They find solutions that they think work, however, they often cause more problems than they solve. These internal managers seek to protect you, however, if they struggle then other parts come in to firefight your increasing levels of anxiety. Firefighters provide distractions, but when they don’t work, quite often the exiled trauma escapes and causes havoc with your emotions and behaviours.
PARTS may be legacy bound (if your family members/ significant others, or your culture or community were for example, too strict or did not show compassion, then your current part may overcompensate and be too compassionate). Specific trauma or chronic stress may also be passed down, to such an extent that perhaps 80% of your negativity could be legacy bound rather than personally experienced. A legacy may be inherited as a similar trait or as an opposite trait.
Legacy traits are both physical (Ego solutions), and or Soul filled (waiting to be of purpose to your inner-self)
COMPASSION IS THE KEY – BUT HOW DO YOU DEVELOP AND NURTURE IT!?
For those individuals that are the hardest to reach and support:
USE OF SSP WITH THE TRUST TECHNIQUE IS AN EXCELLENT COMBINATION TO GRADUALLY SOFTEN AND LET GO OF MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL STRESSORS, ESPECIALLY IN RELATION TO IFS, AND SUBSEQUENTLY INCREASING THE ZONE OF RESILIENCE (meaning the ease that internal discussions can take place regarding the role of managers, protectors, firefighters and exiled parts.
USE OF COHERENCE BREATHING AS AN ENERGY SOURCE OF COMPASSION MAY BE USED FOR INTEGRATING THE VARIED PROTECTORS OF TRAUMA AND CHRONIC STRESS.
SELF-ACTUALISATION THROUGH COMPASSION IS ONLY THE START – THIS NEEDS TO BE NURTURED WITH TEAM ACTUALISATION.
PARTS may also relate as an acronym to:
Presence
Attunement
Resonance
Trust
THIS MEANS THAT WHEN COMMUNICATING TO IFS, THE 4 ASPECTS ABOVE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED.
Also consider applied Kinesiology to assess current physical state, especially when nearing dorsal vagus states. The physical body tells the truth, and the brain often follows patterns from the body when it decides which neurons to fire. Applied Kinesiology can help release tension in the muscles and ease negative firing patterns in the brain.
Additionally, free and unrestricted movement (through play) restores safe and trusting connections with self and others and helps restore fight and flight rather than freeze.
Playful activity, especially with movements involving:
Yield
Push
Reach
Grasp
Pull
All of these support reaching out from, or pushing away from a place that is stuck (a dorsal vagal state).
Additionally, attuned touch releases oxytocin, regulates the vagal brake, induces calmness and bonding – and leads to self-actualisation:
Self is realised through:
1. Confidence – provides firm limits around violation.
2. Creativity – provides imaginative social problem solving.
3. Compassion – provides love for one’s adversary (an opportunity to find and be true to ones self).
4. Curiosity – provides openness to the other’s truth.
5. Connection – provides universal inclusivity.
6. Clarity – provides strategic focus on systemic violence and pain,
7. Courage – provides empowered personal dignity
8. Calmness – provides grounded non-reactive presence.
All of the above is explained within the VFP Protocols along the pathway to Self and Team Actualisation. If you would benefit from experiencing release of anxiety using these neuroplasticity modalities then consider becoming a member of VFP.
Thank you for reading or listening to this,
Marcus, Sharon, and Morgan Pearson.
To find out more visit our Home Page, or to ask any questions or arrange a meeting:
- Ring Marcus on 07931 326 164
- Connect with Marcus on LinkedIn
- Or simply enter your email address below to register as a FREE PROVISIONAL VFP Member – we will then be in contact.
Marcus is focused on supporting others better interact with themselves and others.
