The paradox of modernity is that life demands from us the ability to change quickly along with it — to master new professions, move to new places, build new relationships, in short — to DEVELOP, while remaining the bearer of a certain unchanging genetic type.
People easily accept the fact that they have a permanent eye color or skeletal structure, but they often don’t even realize how fundamental other, less material at first glance, characteristics are within them. For example: temperament, ways of emotional response, properties of thinking and perception.
Sometimes years are spent fighting against one’s own nature — we so want to be more judicious, or, on the contrary — more swift; to get rid of vulnerability or dictatorial tendencies.
But the most important thing is to better understand others and clearly discern: what can be changed, improved in relationships, and what should be accepted as a given, simply taking into account this particular trait of a partner (colleague, parent) instead of stepping on the same rake every time!..
It turns out that all the diversity of human behavior in stressful situations is conditioned by the genetic memory of specific social roles that have been played out repeatedly throughout human History. From generation to generation in Society there have been warriors and priests, farmers and hunters, traders, shepherds or craftsmen.
It doesn’t matter at all — what professional role you are fulfilling now — a programmer or a ballerina, for example — in a stressful situation each of us demonstrates ONE particular way of interacting with the world, directly connected to ancient archetypes.
That is precisely why a loving, sensitive person close to you, for example, SUDDENLY becomes withdrawn and distant; an active and self-confident leader cannot cope with numbness at certain moments, and a perfectly organized employee falls into panic and becomes unmanageable under certain circumstances.
You can hear more about the connection between our behavior in stressful situations and historically established social archetypes, stemming from different ways of energy exchange with the world, below.