Ashok Gupta explains how parts of yourself that seem to sabotage recovery are actually trying to protect you. By finding what each part is protecting and retraining it, you can move past self-sabotaging patterns instead of fighting them.
In session 6A, we talk about these protector parts. And in some ways, all of our parts are protector parts. Some people will say to me, ashok, I think I have a sabotaging part, a part that's sabotaging me. Right. Do we sometimes feel like that, that we're sabotaging ourselves? And I say, even though it feels like it's sabotaging you, no part can do what it thinks is deliberately negative for you. All it can be doing is protecting you or providing you something, and it's teasing that out and understanding that. And once you understand that, as you mentioned, it's like a magic trick. The magician has this magic trick and you're in a trance about it, but when you understand how the trick is done, then it all collapses and you're no longer in a trance, like state around it. And you can move through that particular strategy. Yep. Does that make sense? Find out the magic trick, find out the underlying reasons why, how it's done and why it's done, and then you'll be able to move through it. And some retraining there as well. And we've identified two of these protector parts that are to do with the condition and the.
