Why Shemas Is Important To Me

Shemas are an important component in our minds that organize our expeiriences and thoughts. Through out our lifetime, we will go through many different experiences, whether is a personal life expeirences, educational, or work. When we go through our experiences, we build mental representations that are stored in our minds. We mainly start paying attention to what is really important to us, and start developing schemas of everything and everywhere we go. These schemas will help individuals make sense of the world around them. We will make meaning of the situation. Everyones schemas vary from person to person, depending on each persons experiences is the way they will view their envrioment, in result we will distinguish peoples different schemas, through their behavior.
We lived in a six family house back in New York, and i was riased with nothing but family. Thefore, my schemas were, i only socialize with family. As i grew up, i never made the intention to make friends, i knew i had my family( cousins,sublings, aunts uncles etc). Therefore, i could not, or did not know how to make friends outside my family. My schemas told me, if it is not family, do not trust them. Thefore, i had a hard time trusting people. It wasnt until i got self development courses, in which i realized i needed to mentally change my thoughts, and allow others outside my family to get close to me and interact. It took many years of me adjusting my thoughts, but today i can build and create relatiosnhips, socialize and interact with others. It is still hard to fully trust others, but i am working on it. Based on my personal expeireinces, i do beleive schemas can be