we can take these patterns and work backwards to assemble a pretty good idea of what “idea” or premise has been triggered within us. At the end of that silken thread snaking through the thickets of our psychological history, there is a complex, an affect-laden script with a behavior attached. When catalyzed, it enacts its script, and the attached behavior enters the world. In time, these mechanisms become behavioral patterns, and even when brought to our awareness, we may rationalize them and simply say, “O that’s just who I am,” or “I have always been that way.” Seldom do we surmise that what
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