I’ll give an example maybe of how this plays out for me. So one that comes to mind is last year whenever I would have to drive to a different city to teach a class (especially in the colder and darker months) there would be this feeling of fear/despair.
It seemed so crazy but when I followed it through right to the very core I could see this entire instinctually sourced drama playing out.
It was this archaic fear of having to leave the safety and warmth of ‘my lair’ and go into the dark and cold ‘outside’ where ‘danger’ lurked. I had to leave behind ‘my’ loved ones and risk everything being ripped away from me.
I would allow myself to fully experience and explore this drama until eventually it was seen as silly, the end.
Now that doesn’t mean that I eliminated fear itself, however what I did was apply attentiveness to a drama which flows from the instinctual package. And the drama itself was seen to be silly and as such is no longer entertained.
The thing is that you cannot draw a hard line between the instinctual and the societal, it is all programming, one flows from the other. The societal merely takes the delusions which flow from the instinctual package and makes them more sophisticated, and more deeply entrenched in culture etc.