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IFS - Internal Family Systems

The goal of IFS is to unburden our parts, explore their interactions, and harmonize them like players on a team. The self is capable of seeing these separate personality parts. The foundation self leads, mediates, supports the internal cast of characters.

Patterns of the personality

  1. Exile
  2. Manager, deal with the exile parts
  3. Firefighter, Manager but they do so in a impulsive and destructive in dealing with it

There are three types of apps that run on the mind body complex

  1. Apps that try and prevent suffering and pain
  2. Worry excessively about keeping something bad from happening
  3. Parts that say quit to avoid conflict or embarrassment
  4. Stay in bed all day to avoid painful experiences such as failure
  5. Apps that react to suffering and pain
  6. React with rage when someone is hurtful to us
  7. Addictive behavior to sooth the pain
  8. Apps that cary that suffering and pain
  9. Flashbacks
  10. Nightmare
  11. Emotional Pain

IFS is the ability to press the home button to get out of the apps when they take over our consciousness.

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