I think the way to free one’s mind from reacting automatically to the conditions of the environment, is axioimatic within the question. It is to de-automate the response from the negative conditions. When this is not literally possible, vis, changing the conditions themselves, then more importantly, disengage the response. How? changing the appreception of the neccessity of the automaton’s response, to one of contingency. How? Contingency becomes a grid of more then one cognitive response.
The realization of choices occurs when,in addition to the set pattern usually functioning in a closed,
didactic relationship of necessary response, is opened, when more options are consciously realized.
Once this happens, it is the function of the power of the will, to force the automaton to release it’s hold, and switch gears.
In the beginning, every time the automaton tries to regain the control and the upper hand of cognitive functioning, the newly realized patterns have to be repeatedly swithched unto. At some point it may not be necessary to consciously do this, and freedom of mind will cause the effected mood state to change in accordance of newly emerging and open systems.
The harm done by rejection, may be counterbalaned, even if not entirely eliminated, by inclusion of more and more inclusive and not excluded (rejected) material. I think for this to happen, CBT is the best course of action in the beginning, and inclusion/exclusion may become at the next stage both: an effected change in the affect, or perceptive
feedback.
But to the degree of success, the initial state’s harm may be seen as the measure and degree of the amount and severity of the rejection. In the mst sevre cases, of total rejection, especially in very small children before the age of three, cognitive re-mapping may be almost impossible, to neer impossible, and childhood schizophrenia/autism may be very difficult to avoid. In adults, the mapping is easier , since corrtelation of symbolic connections between primary and secondary processes are more graduated and complete.
In children the amount of filling in, between processes is a guessing game for these type of children, to see what works is the key for them to develop the missing symbolic signifiers. These type of persons will never let go of their guessing game, and the symbolic interlocutor will always be encased in a shell of uncertainty, doubt, and a show me attitude. Make them a believer every time, they will always be suspicious to a degree toward even advances of kindness offered gtoward them, because the signifiers of meaning, will always need to be re tried, as these symbolic interlocators have no connection to the ground of established ‘knowledge’ of the original symbol.
Their own personal harm’s way may be avoided only, at the cost of repetition, repeating ad-nauseum the connection’s validity, the old automatic connection never replaced to the degree that the psyche can actually switch the gears to another form of automatic response. If they try this, and when they do, the whole personality may end up by figuratively becoming a train wreck, speeding along rails of predictable, and unswitchable courses. At this time the only option left is to shut down, and cease to function. The disfunctional among us in society, living in shadows of dispair, in the ghettos and skid rows of insitutional de facto rejection (segregation), out of which it’s neer impossible to move out of, are the victims , the examples of what this really means in human terms.
