Trinity

TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD:
PROF. M. M. NINAN
If the girl doesn’t get help to regulate her feelings, to recognize them, and to receive
acceptance of them, then all she is left with is pure animal energy in the form of
anger/rage, with subsequent guilt, which can be too overwhelming for her. It may be
especially overwhelming for the girl if the mother in addition reacts negatively towards
her daughter’s anger. If the mother becomes anxious, starts yelling, condescends, cries,
ignores, ridicules, or attempts to make the daughter be ashamed of her feelings, it will
further rupture the attachment bond between mother and daughter. This may lead to
separation between them that the daughter’s reptilian brain equates with death. This
anger-guilt loop then creates the daughter’s «fear of her own feeling» (i.e. anxiety),
because now her reptilian brain will gradually put a lid on her anger in order to avoid
guilt and maintain the attachment bond between mother and daughter.
Gradually from now on her reptilian brain will give her anxiety instead of anger
whenever she’s angry. First this will be the case in regards to anger towards mother and
other attachment figures, but this tendency might also spread to include other people
she’s relating to such as classmates, friends, siblings, teachers, and even strangers.
Unaided, it’s likely she’ll come to understand the primitive murderous impulses in her as
something she herself is responsible for. She may then interpret these impulses as
something that’s «bad» about her, rather than getting help accepting these feelings as
«just feelings», and this sows the seed for unconscious guilt, which is the cause of
symptoms and psychological problems.
In nature when you study the behavior of reptiles (i.e. snakes, crocodiles, and lizards etc)
you’ll notice that their behavior towards one another is very violent. A reptile mom often
eats her «children»! To kill and be killed is the natural order of things, and death is
something reptiles are always on the lookout for. Its entire consciousness is devoted to
survival. To stay safe, avoid being killed, survive, and kill others that are a threat to its
survival, are its main objectives. At the inner core of our own mind this
mechanism/instinct is dominant since the reptilian brain trumps the other two brains. To
first and foremost survive is the main goal, and it will try to accomplish that by any
means necessary.
The reptilian brain never forgets something that could be a threat to survival. Even now
in adult life it will trigger the UAM when feelings activates that once (maybe even 90
years ago!) were viewed as dangerous to the attachment bond. Even though we now
logically understand that these feelings are no longer dangerous, it doesn’t matter to the
reptilian brain. Its motto is: «Once a dangerous feeling, always a threat to survival».
Potentially every kind of feeling, even the good ones, can be associated with danger by
the reptilian brain. Even happiness and love, feelings that could potentially give a person
life-energy and self-confidence can be viewed by the reptilian brain as something that
could equal death!
Anxiety is the danger signal inside us that triggers whenever feelings once learned were
dangerous are close to conscious awareness. Anxiety triggers unconsciously (i.e.
outside of your awareness) and it only takes 12 milliseconds (0.012 seconds) from when
a feeling gets triggered until anxiety «attacks it». You do not «decide to get anxious»
any more than you can decide to willfully grow your hair or digest your food. You do not
yourself flip the anxiety switch inside you so to speak. Rather you are merely taken by
it, your body actives itself, tenses up, and gets the heart beating fast whether you want
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