self-transformation

a lot of my practice is motivated by a desire to have more beautiful connection with other people i’ve found the more i’ve meditated, developed emotional fluency, attentional skill & a kinder-feeling interior, the more i’m able to meet ppl with less of my emotional baggage

I believe our default state is at the top of this map. When a child is born, they are pure presence. Unconditional love. Infinite possibility. Simply being. Expressions of God. This is our natural state. But through societal programming, conditioning, and trauma, we fall from the higher states down into fear, guilt, grief, and shame. These negat... See more

experimentation is at the heart of growth: a willingness to test and iterate on the path to transformation cc @FU_joehudson @artofaccomp https://t.co/1XqLUzKLCS

it really is possible to massively reduce psychological/emotional suffering a.k.a what your interiority feels like all day long it’s not twitter hype, there are many ways to get to it, and it’s worth endlessly talking about so everyone who wants emotional wellbeing encounters it

To make this concrete, here are the failure-modes of a few popular psychospiritual modalities that I love: • IFS: you go looking for problematic parts, so the mind starts creating & reifying ones that explain your problems • Somatic experiencing: you look for trauma in the body, mind starts generating or regenerating uncomfortable tensions/pains/se... See more

Possible huge problem with psychospiritual journeys: Yes, there are deep structures in the labyrinth of my mind, and yes, I will have profound insights and fundamental shifts when I bring them into full awareness... And yet...after years of self-work, I'm starting to suspect a large amount of the labyrinth is actually *procedurally generated.* Lik... See more

Metamorphosis https://t.co/dR5KZYr5Yp

emotionally, there's a real pathway where via "focus on the good stuff about your life that's already working, and somatically experiencing the authentic joy of it" sometimes the 'bad stuff you don't want' simply falls off for free, in response to the increased resource

Annoying to see ppl desperately searching for spiritual practices to be happy when they haven’t addressed poor sleep, they eat like shit, and they don’t have an exercise routine