I created the Life Script and Parts Matrix Inventory (LSPMi) to collect a lot of actionable information quickly to save hours of session time in selecting primary targets for change.
Education and good data collection techniques are critical in the helping process because targeting the wrong areas for change will result in very little change and those changes we do make do not last because "Whatever is on top, runs everything underneath (See Logical Levels of Change).
The LSPMi is NOT a personality inventory. It is simply a data collection tool that can accomplish in an hour or so what might take 15 to 20 sessions to accumulate with traditional talk therapy.
Shift Happens
When we begin looking inward and tinkering around with Parts-of-Self, it is not unusual to see change taking place automatically. I often tell my clients to expect it because ‘Shift Happens’. I think it is because an activated maladaptive (dysfunctional) Part-of-Self gets noticed by adaptive (functional) Parts-of-Self and a connection is made between one neural network to another neural network (via new neural pathway). When a wounded Part of Self (maladaptive memory network) connects with a wise, mature, present-centered Part of self (adaptive neural network), the maladaptive network gets updated with new adaptive information causing a shift occurs automatically.
When we work on the right target (at the highest level), the changes we make can and quite often do generalize to other areas of dysfunction. I suspect this is because our configuration of 'life scripts', 'cognitive maps', 'survival skills', ego-states, parts-of-self, defense mechanisms, or whatever you prefer to call them are encoded on a system of dysfunctional neural networks that are connected to one another. When you change or update one part of a system it can, and often times does, affect all other parts of the system underneath it.
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