Resistance to Pattern Transformation

Once patterns are established they becomes habituated – and stored primarily in the parietal lobe and within our physiology. They become relatively rigid, are dominated by implicit memories, and involve primitive limbic functions rather than the more intellectual frontal lobe. Therefore, once a pattern is habituated – at any level – it resists all efforts to change. Remembering that the human mind and body is a multi-level aggregate of components and systems, each with their own form of consciousness and intelligence, it is very important to realize that they are obsessed with the compulsion to retain familiar patterns. The goal is to hold onto those patterns at all costs, even if a component or system's patterns are contrary to the interests (i.e. the survival) of that element's patterns. The ultimate obsession with survival is not for the survival of the system, but the survival of its habituated patterns (Bandler, 2008).

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