(124) A way to fill in the gaps from the last blog

Blind loyalty all about me. The us against them. A mass society of mutually antagonistic men easy prey to despotism.  Further, neurology exclusion vs inclusion, rigid vs flexible, apathy vs empathy, hate vs love. Limbic friction vs functioning as a whole, immaturity vs maturity at the intellectual and emotional level. Meaningless/ think lessness vs intuition positive regard, function and structure vs structure and function. Body/mind vs mind/ spirit, woke vs enlightenment, lesser self vs higher self, moral reasoning/ moral conscience; false self/ideal vs genuine self (main distinguishers of looking within & being strong or not) external vs internal locus of control. Maladaptive stress response, cumulative effect of stress over a lifetime vs positive experience in environment (clinical approach- understand affect, different experiences at different stages/ overlapping experiences) not linear. meaning takes an intuitive (development of higher self & stream of consciousness needed through sematic encoding/ field of neural networking) bigger picture approach healthy in spirit (doing it for the right reasons) high level pattern recognition away from categorical thinking/identity politics. Cascade of development scenarios lack of empathy when not reciprocal win lose no learning or experience gained due to a lack of emphasis and a lack of making meaning of what may otherwise challenge someone surely comes from what resides from within. Compensating on emotions like fear, anger, anxiety, hatred all that reside within from the negative fundamental aspects (many listed above) in context and experience that have accumulated over a lifetime from starting point to mature state. With all the negative vs positive concepts/ideologies listed above, still to function to accept others is a form of higher development at the neural level due to positive vs negative condition in one’s environment taking form through adaptability in the nature vs nurture human experience allowing for the human condition at the biopsychosocial to experience homeostasis even in and especially at the most important level of neurological/mental health development.

Identity crises a time Erik Erikson shares in his development model that all people will experience role and identity confusion in their life, and these experiences vary in context, overlapping conditions as well as positive vs negative experience at what degrees and time frame of experience. The cumulative effect or cascade of development issues will vary, in fact if a specific stage is not met in a healthy way (like graduating many needed small steps) for the derivative of healthy final outcomes, then final outcomes (stagnation/despair vs generativity) may be compromised unless issues leading to not meeting a stage are addressed. Awareness is key to address environment problems so that changes can be made to address child maltreatment scenarios, neglect or abuse, so that a cascade of developmental issues is not experienced and the person can move forward and graduate the next stages of human development. We are seeing and experiencing conditions being placed upon others that to some may not make sense, but to others they are ready to fight to their lifes content over. Generativity is a latter stage of development that is from gratitude. Love and a being that is spirited to see past their own selves to consider others often as even more important than themselves (modesty). Just hearing this seems to take the fight out of the equation, for example, the us against thems, competitive nature of either or thinking. Do you know the answer why?

The puzzle of the nuts and bolts except the clinical aspects that back it up are mostly listed above. It varies by person on a continuum of extremes, and development has everything to do with whether someone makes meaning of their own suffering in which often takes place in accordance to the suffering of others. I did not go into detail above about a solid core identity, but how a person reinforces their response to others in this social emotional learning experience really is a key factor of emotional regulation through a cognitive response that allows for rational outcomes to prevail through acceptance and making meaning. Beats lacking a moral conscience and just experiencing a diffuse of responsibility in all of lifes interactions. Nonetheless, it is not difficult to see that moral development is meaning and meaning in this context is thinking and thinking along these terms is empathy because you really cannot do any of this without being aware of our own pain, while being attuned to the pain of others. I mentioned above some negative emotions that are actually emotions that a person often experiences while in the sympathetic nervous system. Better known as the fight or flight response due too the nature of this system is engaged/regulated from the [prefrontal cortex (hopefully)], as a heightened stress response or a I do not have to be stressed now. Which all resides in the mind, but the body/mind cannot handle lackluster coping skills and unhealthy functional states from lackluster development. If a person cannot regulat stress by how they perceive and interpret events around them, then there will be more psychosocial stressor's at even a higher level. Increased adrenaline, cortisol can take place to experiencing glucocorticoid sensitivity where the negative feedback loops from the HPA parasympathetic nervous system do not kick in and a person is stressed all the time. A person cannot sustain at this degree of disinhibition and maintain integrity in the form of inner peace or anything other than more negative emotionality (acting on ones discontent) and an apathetic state that's next alternative measure of behavior in this state of emotional health from further exhaustion is evil and sadism.

Acting on ones discontent to seek pleasure will only make you less happy and needing more of the adverse behavior. dopamine, serotonin, neuronal cell death addiction/extremism, and hate. Stress can override logic and reason. For all intents and purposes of this article Stress is really hard on the brain, and whether a person can disengage and find peace into the parasympathetic nervous system (where you want to be) really is dependent on remaining calm and staying engaged In healthy coping skills that are attuned to values, and principles that are aligned to a person's core identity. Compassion regulates sympathetic arousal and making meaning through empathy of life’s difficult circumstance is rewarding, and self-reinforcing at the neural level which contributes to higher dopamine baselines and a persons identity. It also contributes to emotional stability because the emotions experienced while in the parasympathetic nervous system are either sadness or joy which allowing for (like a signal) looking within and making meaning rather than the overwhelming and negatively emotionally reactive unstable emotions while engaged in a sympathetic nervous system response. Really shows the meanness comes from stress which is not a product of looking within (internal Locus of control) to make meaning. Rather the high stressed are often aggressive and focus negatively outward (external locus of control) which is to believe external events have control over you and not your true self. Easy to see why this motivational style is tied to stress and impacts neural development and behavior in a negative way. Externally driven validation comes from a negative place, but it leads to a negative place as well. External validation is not self-reinforcing at the neural level, so it leaves a person that seeks external validation in a depleted state of dopamine and a need for seeking it as a result. Being prone to adverse behaviors due to the imbalance of the nucleus acumens area is associated to the maladaptive stress response. Due to physiological change in the brain due to stress a disconnect takes place from the executive center of the brain which is to experience being emotionally dysregulated which contributes to experiencing risky behaviors and impulse control issues. Even worse like Daniel Golman explains that this is the working memory so in an exacerbated condition the person cannot learn, they cannot see a future so they only live for the moment, they become hyper focused in a symbolic context of fear and threat, while also struggling to see the big picture. So, what do you latch on to when inner peace seems to be out of reach or higher self-consciousness and a sense of reality seem to be out of grasp. Acting on generalizing and seeing social hierarchies and creating social constructs on what you cannot stand through a narrative presupposing this negative state of what you hate onto others rather than seeing and accepting people. Human dignity a form of integrity is basically to accept others for their suffering through the lens of suffering that you have experienced in your own life and accept them because they are human.

Lacking the framework of self is to lack the ability to make meaning in an agreeable, conscientious, open minded empathic lens. Therefore, experiencing an inability to be flexible is the inability to experience the socio emotional learning experience at a humane level. The reciprocal ability to understand oneself and accept others through a solid value system is reality to be bound to morals and principles that go beyond thy self. When lacking this higher bar of accountability to self, the ego is a larger part a false sense of self “ideal self” that is in a negative emotional state of mind, which in more of a repressive state of apathy and lacking a solid core identity will distort reality through defense mechanisms. The genuine authentic self cannot exist when there is nothing to be aligned too, for example, when the ego gratification overrides logic and reason or when accountability to self does not take place through an internal locus of control /reinforcement internal contradictions and conflicts within the subconscious are going to take place and exist due to a lack of framework of self to seek reality through healthy coping skills (problem solving). Therefore, a person does not understand themselves due to this dissociation from self due to a lack of a sense of control of external events because of a lack of looking within to find emphasis or acceptance of self or others through deeper meaning (apathy). The component of development is making meaning and storing constructs from learning and making emphasis to things over a lifetime that have meaning and that are important. This is who we become through healthy coping that is in alignment to values through lower-level traits that are malleable (plasticity) yet intertwined to the higher-level traits (principles) that are used as a compass to guide you in the decision-making process. All these executive prefrontal cortex and pathways need a social environment to develop, and recent findings have found this is the last but most important neural development that must take place. Also, these regions pathways and areas must be maintained by the internal locus of control/reinforcement to prevent loss (synaptic cleansing/pruning) of circuitry so that innervation between neural regions that contribute to the higher optimal functional state of the human organism do not decline or become lost.