When Understanding Isn’t the Mechanism of Change
For many people, insight brings clarity, language, and relief.
It helps make sense of experience and reduces confusion.
Insight rarely changes the state of nervous system activation on its own.
You can understand exactly why you react and still have your body respond automatically.
That is not a failure of insight. It is a limitation of where insight operates.
In this work, understanding is not used to override or manage activation.
Instead, the biological interference is addressed directly.
When that interference resolves, something unexpected often happens:
Understanding deepens naturally.
Not as a strategy – but as a consequence.
People don’t just know something differently.<b
