The Mindful Therapist by Daniel J. Siegel

Author:Daniel J. Siegel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-05-05T16:00:00+00:00

TRICEPTION AND INTEGRATION

I hope we are together, at least for this moment, on diving into this more subtle and perhaps deeper level of perception that is fundamental to mindsight. I am typing here, but imagining you there. Yes, time and space separate us now. But at some time and place, these words will pop from the page or out of a speaker and into your subjective experience. They’ll move you from the plane of possibility, as you are receptive, into valenced plateaus of probability and then outward to peaks of specific activity. This is how we take in information flow and make it our own. My intention behind this notion of triception is that these peaks and plateaus of this concept will prepare your mind for the chance encounters that can then be seized upon to help move our lives toward integration. We can take the best of science and the sound reflection of subjectivity and help one another acknowledge periods of chaos and rigidity that imprison us. With triception we can then interpret these states as moments of impaired integration and then identify where differentiation and/or linkage has not been cultivated. I know this is sounding familiar—but we are going to move deeply now into levels of energy flow and its transformation toward integrated states. This is the power of triception to enable us to focus our awareness on the dimension of reality that is the flow of energy and information in mind, brain, and relationships.

We can sense, for example, how energy and information flow emerges from the specialized circuitry of the right or left sides of the brain. Can we sense the presence of linguistic, linear, logical, literal, labeling, and list-making language of the left? Can we perceive the nonverbal, holistic, imagery-based, metaphoric, autobiographical, whole-body-mapping world of the right hemisphere? These are the differentiated flows of energy and information distributed horizontally in the neural mechanisms within the brain portion of the triangle.

Once identification has been established, once we’ve noted rigidity and/or chaos and the domain in which it is arising, we can introduce the next step of intervention. If the specialized functions, say, of left or right modes of processing are not present, if implicit memory is isolated from the integrative explicit forms, or if bodily energy and information are blocked from entering cortical awareness, we can nurture the development of these differentiated functions by SNAGging the brain as we stimulate neuronal activation and growth in these isolated regions. Once differentiation is established, we can then move toward integration by promoting the linkage of these varied functions.

Triception also permits us to perceive how energy and information flow are shared in relationships in ways that support each person being differentiated and then linked. If you and I are in a relationship and I don’t value your perspective and our interactions don’t involve mutual respect for the internal world of the other, then differentiation is not a part of our relationship. As energy and information flow between us, we’d likely find moments of chaos and rigidity emerging, revealing this impairment to integration.

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