Works for the class of traumas that are primarily about harmful conditioning. I don't think all traumas are in this class.
i’ve started playing around with using “unlearning” basically anywhere i used to use “healing” (thinking of trauma as rigidly learned patterns / viewpoints, rather than as vaguer “damage”). feels like a more accurate description. thoughts?https://twitter.com/_jordan_bates/status/1150606833427603457 …
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ooh, got examples?
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You are right, but 1) it’s more a ‘training’, experiential type of learning, and 2) the parts of the brain-body system doing much of the learning are often not consciously owned or engaged by people as ’of the self’, (tend to get externalized to the environment).
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yep. it's a tragedy that this is not already implicitly what we mean by "learning"
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I like the idea of more learning as opposed to unlearning. Being like a city that has ancient temples side by side with modern skyscrapers.
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the unlearning makes room for the learning!
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I like it for specific instances of uprooted assumptions. There are times when healing feels like dropping my guard when the danger has passed -- not sure if I'd call this unlearning exactly. It feels more like accepting the safe new environment.
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yeah, there is a different thing of like, feeling open enough to take in how safe you are, and also a thing of like, finding new particularly safe environments (therapy, authentic relating, cuddle piles, etc)... i think it's worth having different names for these things!
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I like it!
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Unlearning comes about when we look at what makes us most upset in life, and pointing to a precious person, place, or thing that was lost or threatened, and looking at how we might be able to honor them in some creative way in the future. This moves passed any blame, to healing.
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