08-13-2021, 02:43 AM
Wow, Vernon Howard said that we are impulsive even with our ordinary personalities. I was thinking that it was our personalities that prevented impulsiveness. I recognize now that actually there are two different kinds of impulsiveness. One kind is when we act directly from instincts and feelings without thinking first. The other kind, which I think Vernon meant, is that our personas have trained habits in them for how we should behave in order to protect and promote ourselves in social situations.
Our personas become conditioned and strengthened and they come to act as pseudo-securities for how to behave. And the habitual behavior through our hardened and rigid personas can indeed be seen as impulsiveness, because the habits become instinctual patterns of "canned" responses, personal tactics and behaviors that are accessed directly without having to come up with new thoughts for how to behave. In this way our personas become a huge and strongly cemented part of the veil.
Our personas become conditioned and strengthened and they come to act as pseudo-securities for how to behave. And the habitual behavior through our hardened and rigid personas can indeed be seen as impulsiveness, because the habits become instinctual patterns of "canned" responses, personal tactics and behaviors that are accessed directly without having to come up with new thoughts for how to behave. In this way our personas become a huge and strongly cemented part of the veil.