Exercise 4-3 Sensitivity to Feedback ↑
piter239 в посте Metapractice (оригинал в ЖЖ)
Now I want you to return to your trios for another fifteen minutes to experiment with some of the things we've been talking about in regard to the checklist. Try out different ways to represent your examples, and use your felt sense of its stability or strength as a guide to how you can make that aspect of your self-concept even stronger and more durable. Anything you do to make it stronger will also tend to make it more sensitive to the discrepancies that provide feedback about how well your behavior is aligned with your self-concept. Again I suggest that you start by silently experimenting in your own mind, and then share and assist each other in playing with this.
Do you have any questions or comments now, after another opportunity to experiment with these elements of self-concept?
Al: When I was examining my examples, there were a few that were actually examples of my not having the quality. I think those must be "important, and I wonder why you haven't mentioned them.
Those counterexamples are very, very important, and we'll spend a lot of time with them later. For now I want to ignore them, because I want to build a solid foundation of basic understanding before we explore counterexamples. All these things are going on at the same time, so the sequence of our exploration is somewhat arbitrary, but I have found that it is very useful for you to have a thorough understanding of some simpler aspects of self-concept before learning about counterexamples.
Summary
We have been exploring how you select and assemble examples into a structure that provides a basis for your knowing that you have a quality. We have examined the effects of a number of very important process variables: number of examples, location, simultaneous/sequential, modalities, association, and submodalities.
We have also been finding out how changes in these variables also affect the content that is represented in your database. All these elements make a quality of your self-concept more durable and more responsive to feedback at the same time. This is the first step in transforming yourself: making the qualities that you like even stronger and more sensitive to feedback.
Keep in mind that the structures that we have discussed are only a very small sample of the many ways that someone can put these variables together to provide a basis for knowing who they are. However, now you have some generalizations about these processes, that will enable you to explore and understand the structure of anyone's qualities, even if it is quite different from the ones we have discussed.
I'd like you to take a minute or two to reflect back on when we began this exploration a short time ago. When I first asked you to turn inside to find out how you thought about this quality in yourself, you were probably a bit confused, because it is something that is usually unconscious and out of your awareness. But like many other aspects of our mental functioning, it is available to consciousness if we take the time to turn inward, ask the right kind of questions, and be sensitive to our responses.