Wednesday, February 2, 2011
people adjust their world view
to explain their circumstances. In other words: People 'tweak' the 'story' they tell about their lives (and themselves) to explain or create coherence and congruity between what they experience and what they think about what they experience. I think the shrinks call this a 'schema'? the story, that is. It's kind of a personalized road map that helps one navigate the potholes in one's daily life - smoothes the route, makes one not have to start over from scratch with each new day, new person or circumstance. Various kinds of 'splitting' would seem to fit in here, too, somehow, but I'm too tired to figure it out right now.
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Never heard or read the term schema.
I understand it. Kinda hard to develop a schema when you have no one that would ever listen to you.
I do what could be called a schema in advance. We call it running a scenario.
I just googled it - the most common definition seems to be something like this one:
"...a mental structure we use to organize and simplify our knowledge of the world around us."
Yeah - a scenario, if I'm understanding you? Is a pretty *conscious* thing, something one does intentionally, with awareness. As I understand it, 'schemas' are far less conscious - it's something a person often does without knowing he or she is doing it.
It kind of explains why people *say* one thing and *do* another, while seeming to have no conscious awareness of the disparity between what they['re *doing* and what they're *saying*.
Don't know if that makes sense.
I just read your post on 'schema' at your blog - what you say there makes sense to me. Sounds like you're evolving a 'story' that works for you.
I guess maybe those of us who have to do this kind of 'work' *have* to get conscious and aware of our 'schemas' in a way that most people don't. It's the only way we can change our 'programming' so that we can deal with life in ways that work better for *us*.
Hope I've understood what you're saying.
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