# Pheros as emotional growth accelerators: wearing emotive mixes to build social skills **URL:** \ **Category:** Men's Pheromone Advice & Field Reports\ **Created:** [March 19, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pheros-as-emotional-growth-accelerators-wearing-emotive-mixes-to-build-social-skills/2585 "2007-03-19T18:27:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1
**Author:** ![tacitus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6a8cbe/32.png) [@tacitus](https://pheromonetalk.com/u/tacitus)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2007, 6:27pm UTC](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pheros-as-emotional-growth-accelerators-wearing-emotive-mixes-to-build-social-skills/2585/1 "2007-03-19T18:27:46Z")
This comes from a sequence of experimental, symphonic, and powerful emotic mixes that I sometimes wear in high-growth-potential circumstances… translated into English that means when and where consenting adults choose to be for the porpose of increasing their behavioral or thought skills… the distinction between what is cognitive/symbolic/mental and what is felt/emotive/visceral is tenuous at best… as one television program on the subject explains, the limbic or midbrain mind is our “GO” system, the one that sends out impulsive, instinctive, not contemplatated directives… eat! mate! defend! run!.. although it also appears that this is a much simplified view, the limbic system is probably home to much of our natural, automatic, “true” selves… and the fantasy or mind-movie processes that form the scrim of our background consciousness… and the frontal or neocortex part of the brain is out “STOP” system that allows us to process the long term consequences of our actions, and the one that gives us our reasoned, linear, time based thinking… as the host of the program clarified, it is the _ **quality** _ of the dialog between the GO system and the STOP system that distinguishes the socially elegant, appropriate (and by most accounts, greatly more successful through life) and well attuned from the clumsy, disconnected, not-all-there offputting social presence of someone who obviously isn’t getting over and has no chance of getting over… to expand on that a bit, the person who is overly limbic may be amazing fun once and a while but lacks the capacity to self observe and self regulate, they misread social cues, overeact emotionally, are careless with facts, and need a lot of supervision… OTOH the person who is overly cortical may be perceived as stiff, uninvolved, rule and structure obsessed, lacking in empathy, tunnel vision personality… Life today, whatever that is, seems to want to pigeonhole us as either “limbics”… untrustworthy children who need to be watched closely and kept in narrow structures, or “corticals” who are so self monitoring and self regulating that one mutates into a corporate droid-bot whose skull has become a round container labelled POLICY… Is there a better way ? Can one have the best of both worlds ? More, can the successful integration of the two processes allow one to live more richly than one might have imagined possible in the limbic-id-rebel-teenbrain slot or the cortical-superego-authority figure-hardass slot ? Can one merge the flexibility and imagination of the young mind with the structure, time sense, and perspective of the elder brain ? **To be continued …** --- _[View the full topic](https://pheromonetalk.com/t/pheros-as-emotional-growth-accelerators-wearing-emotive-mixes-to-build-social-skills/2585)._