##### 🔑 Our inner family is an ecosystem > "That which impacts one explicitly impacts everyone implicitly." > — MLK There's never "just one part." [[💡 Parts|Parts]] are in relationship with each other and interact amongst themselves whether we're aware of it or not, with no part operating in isolation. A major aspect of [[💡 The IFS Process|the IFS process]] is getting to know our parts and [[🔑 Decrease the reactivity of and re-harmonize the inner system, so that we can respond rather than react|🔑 understanding and harmonizing their relationships]] with ecological sensitivity. When we’re stuck in one area we can focus on another with confidence, knowing that our parts are an ecosystem, because it means that to work on any problem is to work on all of them. Nothing is irrelevant. What effects one part (positively or negatively) can effect our entire inner-ecosystem and those changes must be [[💡 Integrate a Part|integrated]]. ###### See Also - [[🔑 Our parts influence other people]] - [[🔑 Progress accumulates]] - [[🔑 Our inner and outer worlds are not separate]] - [[🔑 Parts have Parts]]