IFS as whole-brain
In support of IFS #7
This explores how the developing language of whole-brainedness, developing since 1975, may support and strengthen IFS.
What does whole-brain rhetoric sound like in 2019?
The waking adult psyche employs multiple intelligences, sometimes sequentially, one at a time, sometimes several at once. We can switch intelligences in and out of our awareness within a tenth of a second. This is normal; this is natural; this is healthy. Hence the relevance of IFS’s “multiplicity.”
Whole-brain rhetoric continues beyond IFS this way. Many of our intelligences are in paired relationships, pairs of distinct, contrasting intelligences. Thinking (T) and Feeling (F) are the most relevant-significant pair of contrasting, paired intelligences we employ while awake.
Adults and many teenagers can switch between T and F several times a second. This is one way we confuse ourself. We don’t realize we are flip-flopping between reactive Thinking parts and reactive Feeling parts.
A main goal of Whole-brainedness is learning how and practicing letting Self lead, instead of reactive Thinking and Feeling parts.
That’s it. The rest below is metaphors making the above more accessible to people.
