11-22-2016, 01:58 PM
(11-22-2016, 12:27 PM)Travis Wrote: Shannon:
In Funky's journal you and others were discussing Freezing instead of executing DMSI's script.
I'm reading a very interesting book entirely about this freeze response, called "Waking the Tiger" by Peter Levine. Very highly reviewed on amazon and goodreads.com
It argues that this freezing is rooted in our animalistic "fight/flight/freeze" response to trauma. After escaping a predator, you will see gazelles shake uncontrollably for a little while before eating grass like nothing ever happened.
We tend to focus on fight/flight, but the freeze response is just as viable in the animal kingdom. In many cases it is the best chance of survival. Levine believes that emotional trauma caused by this response, and that many mental illnesses are rooted in the body's inability to escape the tension built up in the nervous system from the freeze response.
Humans have forgotten how to do this, and because we have the neocortex, we can partially override this natural release and mess up the process even further through denial and rationalization. My guess is that myself and others are doing this to some degree.
I'm not sure how this could help the script, but it seems very related and I thought you might find it helpful or just relevant/interesting.
I believe that in humans, the freeze response is a situation in which the sense of security is violated to a degree that causes "life threatened" reactions. In the case of a freeze response, the person literally is "playing dead" because they have no idea what else to do. Once we give them programming as to what to do, that should stop.
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The scientist has a question to find an answer for. The pseudo-scientist has an answer to find a question for. ~ "Failure is the path of least persistence." - Chinese Fortune Cookie ~ Logic left. Emotion right. But thinking, straight ahead. ~ Sperate supra omnia in valorem. (The value of trust is above all else.) ~ Meowsomeness!