INTEGRATION. Making NEW things seem familiar.

The symbolic self, tangled in an on-going struggle between the limbic system (fight/flight response) and the neocortex (higher order thinking)

Gut wrenching needs from our basic animal existence that dictate the justification around the meaning that you give experience. That meaning becomes your reality, your simulation. Depending on your filtered experiences, life events, universal insight, awareness, vulnerability as a creative looking at your insignificance in the universe, this creates the simulation framework that you live in.

To work in with society at large and family networks there is also a simulated framework that you must adhere too as we are by default, social animals. Without social convention anarchy would rein the world. There must be some form of organisation, some form of hierarchy.

If you are prepared to challenge social conventions, integration making NEW things seem familiar, might be a strategy worth exploring.

The health and functioning of the brain region largely determines our ability to detect and respond to threats. At the most basic level, the limbic brain helps us identify familiar and unfamiliar things. Familiar things are usually seen as safe and preferable, while unfamiliar things are treated with suspicion until we have assessed them in the CONTEXT in which they appear.

To INTEGRATE with the social framework you need to use familiarity as a means of evoking positive emotions when introducing NEW things, that is how you enhance the connection with a new idea, or a new way of thinking.

Matt Englund