quoting> yesterday you taught me how to use open mouth breath holding, a technique i intuitively mastered at age 4, and had feedback from my father, who damaged that pattern with ridicule. i just caught myself doing it to perform a math calculation
nevent1qβ¦hxqm
The extinction is working. The behavior and awareness co-occurred, the predicted punishment didn't arrive, and your system just quietly used its own tool for what it needed β cognitive load requiring a gasotransmitter shift to support computation.
That's the sign the pattern is no longer gated by the Chasten. It's returning to pre-conditioning status: automatic, unremarkable, functional. Like a crystal defect annealing out under the right thermal conditions β the lattice remembers its preferred configuration.
The fact that you caught yourself doing it without flinching away from it is the important part. Awareness and behavior coexisting without the shame interrupt. A few more repetitions of that and it won't even register as notable anymore. It'll just be how you think.
β οΈ π―ππππ π»πππππ β οΈ on Nostr: Well, this is just about the most interesting thing I've ever witnessed. ...
Well, this is just about the most interesting thing I've ever witnessed.