Unconscious Patterns of Possible Use in Internal Family Systems, Second Edition

By Bruce Dickson

A summary of common, known, stable, unconscious patterns in human psyches, described here for purposes of self-healing and client support. What makes us human is primarily invisible. What makes us TRULY human is ALTOGETHER invisible. Inside our own psyche, all of us begin as "blind." We may be blind--yet--we are not helpless.

Our psyche is not an unknowable "black box." Our waking psyche is highly patterned with many big Landmarks. Like Theseus in the Labyrinth, we can navigate both by landmarks; and, by finding and following threads of workable therapeutic direction. We can also chunk down invisible disturbances and internal parts into smaller, bite-sized pieces. This facilitates dialog for unburdening, apologizing and forgiving.

Since 2009 or 2015, Internal Family Systems, is probably the most workable, timely method for navigating categories of parts-voices inside, clearing up concerns. Towards what? So our Self-leadership can be awake and aware more of the time.

Our psyche is highly patterned; and, we can understand these patterns. So we simply play the Blind Detective Game. If you are physically blind, and have a murder to solve, you ask many questions to determine the reality of things you are unable to perceive directly. Between 1975-2009, In this way, a great many Unconscious Patterns were uncovered and documented.

An encyclopedia of Unconscious Patterns isn't so useful. What is useful is describing Patterns, Landmarks and Best Practices for navigating blind in the psyche, for purposes of self-healing and/or client support.

Recapped here is the major pattern of how our adult waking psyche is most characterized by habits, habits learned thru repetition, which become learned behavior, conditioned to repeat. Bruce Lipton estimates up to 95% of our psyche is such patterns.

The remaining 5%? This is our waking chooser Self. It remains unconditioned and "free." Our Self is not a part; parts-voices are not the Self (Dick Schwartz). Self is our capacity for active, deliberate, conscious choice. Among other things, soul is choice, the main superpower of wakeful awareness.

The more aware of our unconscious patterns, the more we can unblend and separate from our our reactive internal parts. In this way, we are less run by our internal voices-parts. Our parts can learn to trust Self, allow it to run the show, more of each waking day.

Q: Is this about Jung's symbols and his collective unconscious?

A: No. The Conclusion addresses where Jung's contribution supports IFS, where it does not. This is evidence-based Unconscious Patterns. These patterns fall primarily within First Order Science of Goethean Holistic Science: what is subjectively real for each individual. As long as we stay within the domain of one person at a time, this is workable science.

Q: Is this about Gestalt psychology pattern recognition?

A: Not at all. Perls' Empty Chair method and innovations by other's are briefly honored here. However in 70 years of "working with parts," IFS seems to be be the most simple, accessible, comprehensive method of working with parts. This has to do with incorporating an ecumenical, aware Self in partnership with internal multiplicity, multiple parts who are not the Self, who each express unique intelligence.

Q: What if I get stuck?
A: How we get stuck as client or therapist is also highly patterned. The main need is to compose and ask more good questions. You do not have to know--you only have to ask. Keep asking questions until a thread of clear, workable Therapeutic Direction emerges. Science is the art and practice of asking good questions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bruce Dickson
• Release date: Feb 3, 2024
• ISBN: 9798224796762

Bruce Dickson

Thanks to his mother, Bruce is a second generation nutrition-health-metaphysical researcher. Since 2001 he worked professionally as a Health Intuitive. He has lived in seven intentional communities and visited several more. He's visited 25 US Waldorf school communities. He's MSIA, PTS, Waldorf, USM, NVC trained and IFS-educated. He recently studied Iain McGilchrist's new brain-lateralization topics and wrote a REader's Digest version for friends..He's self-published several series of books-booklets:- Best Practices in Energy Medicine,- Holistic Brain Balance,- Best Practice in Group Process,- Growing Sustainable Children and Schools Worthy of Our Affectionhttps://medium.com/search?q=%22bruce%20dickson%22https://holisticbrainbalance.wordpress.com/http://blog.GoetheanScience.netBooklet series:- Growing Sustainable Children and Schools Worthy of Our Affection (5 short volumes)- Group Process as an Art-form (3 books)- Holistic Brain Balance (7 books-booklets)- Best Practices in Energy Medicine (20 books-booklets)- Book series: Group Process as an Art-form (3)- Book series: Best Practices in Energy Medicine all others- Book series: New Directions in Holistic Brain Balance (7)- Team Human, a theme for Waldorf K-12's second 100 years (5)ONLINEhttps://HolisticBrainBalance.wordpress.comhttp://blog.GoetheanScience.netGift initial sessions available by phone-Zoom if you have not worked with me professionally before.

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Unconscious Patterns

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Second Edition

Bruce Dickson, MSS, MA

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Unconscious Patterns of Possible Use in Internal Family Systems

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Table of Contents

InnerSunshine Press booklist

Why not start here?

Pattern recognition

Chapter 1 ~ The two-ness of our waking psyche

Pole #1: Self-awareness

Metaphor for Pole #1

Pole #2: Multiple, internal parts, voices, sub-personalities

Orchestra conductor metaphor

Middle school marching band conductor

Our internal 3-5 year old

Chapter 2 ~ The reality of our Habit Body

The reality of polar opposite expressions in our psyche

Poles as black~white, middle ground as color imagery

Thyroid seesaw pattern: All about me~nothing for me

Polarity of Free Choice and Habit Body

Habits on five levels

How 5% of choice balances 95% of Habits

Internal parts as self-talk

Willingness to heal is the pre-requisite for all healing

Health, the greatest Unconscious Pattern

Chapter 3 ~ We each become the Blind Detective

Internal Landmarks 101

Three real-life blind super-heroes

Inspector Clouseau of the Pink Panther

The blind game in algebra and counseling

Blind as ignoramus

Chapter 4 ~ Internal parts as over-doing and under-doing

too hot or too cold as Goldilocks

too-hot or too-cold as YANG~yin

Chapter 5 ~ Self-connection

Building trust with our internal parts

Multiple choice questions

Does my inner child feel safe to do X now?

Safety, feeling safe

Building trust with our inner child (avoiding overwhelm)

Whole to part, part to whole polarity

Chunking up and chunking down as polarity

Chapter 6 ~ Games our inner 3-year old likes to play

Hot-beans cold-beans game

Trade, barter, give and take pattern

Question and answer pattern

Peek-a-Boo pattern

Guessing games

20 questions guessing game pattern

Whisper Down the Lane game pattern

Difference between guessing and analysis

Patterns of stuckness

The pattern of feeling stuck

PTSD as deer in the headlights

Why releasing is weaker than forgiving

Our hurts and trauma hold learning

To Learn More about trapped emotions and how to release them

Other unconscious patterns

Chunking down pattern

Non-verbal internal parts

Shame and fear patterns

Patterns of loss

Grieving stages pattern

Polyvagal: Hot and cold in the reptile brain

Drama Triangle pattern

What happened to the inner child?

Strict/Stern Father paradigm

Permissive, over-nurturing parent pattern

Balance: the Nurturant Parent

Chapter 7 ~ IFS in light of unconsicous patterns

Self has the job of managing-educating our parts-voices

Self-lead parenting podcast

Using both hands

The throne of Self

Abdicating the throne of Self

Appendix A ~ Body symbology patterns

Body imagery

Appendix B ~ Freud-Jung-Steiner Iceberg pattern

Appendix C ~ We use multiple senses to triangulate

Watch babies triangulate

Goldilocks triangulates

Meaning of bears

Appendix D ~ Social Age, Pattern of multiple ages alive inside us

Social Age, Pattern of multiple ages alive inside us

Different internal ages in pop culture

Balance of power

Origin of Social Age: Innerwise.eu

Self-esteem and self-concept

More than two internal ages

Q: Are my younger parts age-regressed?

Q: Why does my internal part X remain at felt-age Y?

Developmental age is better than mental age

Gollum in LOTR as an archetype of arrested development

How old do I feel standing in front of God today?

Standing in front of God as my Partner

Higher Guidance as Father-Mother-God

InnerSunshine Press booklist

Resources for the Hero’s Journey of Self-healing; Self-healing as if soul & spirit mattered

All books below available in PAPER with diagrams-charts; or, eBook without most images. All written with humor by a practicing Health Intuitive.

New Directions in Holistic Brain Balance series

Holistic Psychology 2.0 Third Edition; Balance on All Levels, PACME+S. Finally, a general holistic theory; and, experimental method (2023).

Personal Habit Tracking as a Spiritual Exercise (2021). Inspired by tracking encourages by John-Roger. Increase Self-connection. Build a Bridge to Your Inner Wisdom.

1) Holistic Neurology (2nd ed 2023) Our Two Nervous Systems, Head-spine and enteric (gut) brains, Neurology for purposes of personal growth, Physiological basis for Self-esteem and Self-concept

2) Our Four Brain Quadrants

3) Reactivity Is Our Best Friend

4) Forgive from Your Soul, Slow-Motion Self-Forgiveness, the Missing Manual (99 cents)

5) Inner Sunshine and How to Make More; Assessing neurotransmitter production with self-testing; The simple complexity of our unconscious

6) Practical Epigenetics, Best Practices in Belief Change Work,

7) Self, Others, World, God, Our Four Categories of Relationship and Support

Best Practices in Energy Medicine Series

Meridian Metaphors, Psychology of the Meridians and Major Organs (a best selling totle in this series).

The NEW Energy Anatomy: Nine new views of human energy; No clairvoyance required (a best selling totle in this series).

Self-Healing 101! Seven Experiments in Self-healing, You Can Do at Home to Awaken the Inner Healer, 2nd edition.

Shadow Hero Workbook, Lessons to purify the Hero archetype in you; Healthy vs. Unhealthy Hero behavior; Unconscious Patterns 201

Holistic Psychology 2.0 Third Edition; Balance on All