Recently we posted an exercise that uses attention to move between awareness for the details and the whole. We need the same posture in DID therapy.
We tend to get absorbed by single parts, their characteristics, needs, emotions, goals etc and explore every little detail. While that is valuable, it is not how we can fully make sense of our parts. More details about differences alone won’t explain everything and might even distract from integrative actions.
To fully understand parts, we also need to zoom out and look at the whole. We gain valuable understanding when we look at parts in relation to each other. Parts are the way they are because other parts are the way they are. They don’t exist in a vacuum or independent from each other. Our job in a company can only be understood partially when looking at what we do all day, but it makes a lot more sense when we look at the team, what our co-workers do and what the company is trying to achieve. It helps to regularly zoom out and look at parts in relation to each other and the system as a whole.
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