Liban woke up feeling well, and he does not know why. He decided to keep food log; to see why he wakes up some days without headache and other days with headache.
Liban presented negative feeling around his chest as he talked about a sister of his father whom he has never met suffering from illness and lacking proper care. Her kids appear to be well off but not taking care of her. She is languishing in the rural areas of Somalia
Liban talked to some of his relatives and feels better now and more work needs to be done. Liban reported that he ‘ does not have time to explore the psyche’ and reported that he gets ‘ anxious’ as he thinks about such exploration.
He feels he siad ‘ less interested emotionally in the welfare of his relatives’ since ‘ they can take care of themselves’. He further claims that they did not ‘ come to me and my family when we needed them’ and as such he ‘ feels less urges to help them since there is no need’
He also further reports that he ‘ is perplexed with this careless attitude towards them’ and does not want to perpetuate ‘ the careless cycle of feeling and action’; he wants to help as much as he can to start new cycle of mutual assistance during the hard time.
‘ I don’t want to work on project’ he said because ‘ I want to do things for their own sake first’ he said. ‘ I don’t have anything to do for its own sake right now’ he added. It appears he wants to do nothing but things for their own sake. It is not right, he reasoned.
Liban remembered a client that he worked with who said ‘ I will not talk unless I say something original’ ‘ most of the times, I don’t have anything original so, I remained silent’ he noted. Ironically, Liban learned that people say creative things only after they say a lot.
A fundamental principle in brainstorming is quantity precedes quality: the more ideas you have, the more quality ideas you may have.
Liban subscribes to certain rules that govern his behavior, rule based behaviors: don’t speak unless you have original ideas to talk about. He managed to know such rules and change them with another rule: produce more ideas or options for a problem. Quantity precedes quality.
One of the aims of emotional and thought explorations ( unconscious) is to figure out operative rule based emotions, thoughts and behaviors. Such rules governed liban’s behaviors without his knowledge
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