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Found footage of BlessedLion after reading Leo's latest blog posts.

@Federico del pueblo You're welcome mate. All the best with it

@ShardMare If you buy the book 'feeling good' by David Burns that will give you a lot to work with. Also, if you just google cbt worksheets i think you'll come across some resources.

@Federico del pueblo Probably worth joining a specific subreddit and/or facebook group that is about holotropic breathwork. then ask your question there as well

@bensenbiz Same, re doing it for personal growth. I started it based off advice from a youtuber called David Tian a few years back.

@Yimpa Thanks. Reminds of an exercise I used to do as part of a method acting class which involved sort of yelling to try and access blocked emotions. lol.

@bensenbiz I'm not sure. I deal with pretty severe emotional numbness, so I don't know what the norm is.

@bensenbiz To my understanding, Shinzen would class focusing on breath to be an outer sensory experience. He classes physical body sensations, which would include breath sensations, as being an outer feel sensory experience. Whilst the inner feel sensory experience would be your emotional sensations.

@Yimpa You're welcome mate

@Yimpa Hiya, yep. I would recommend trying out Shinzen Young's 'note gone' technique on the painful sensory experiences "Whenever all or part of a sensory experience suddenly disappears note that. By note I mean clearly acknowledge when you detect the transition point between all of it being present and at least some of it no longer being present. If you wish, you can use a mental label to help you note. The label for any such sudden ending is “Gone.” If nothing vanishes for a while, that’s fine. Just hang out until something does. If you start worrying about the fact that nothing is ending, note each time that thought ends. That’s a “Gone.” If you have a lot of mental sentences, you’ll have a lot of mental periods – full stops, Gones!" - Shinzen Young Here is the full article https://www.shinzen.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/art_PowerofGone.pdf I've also attached Shinzen's dynamic labelling system. You can play around with labelling 'gone' using different intensities of labels, and see what helps you be with the painful sensations with most ease in the moment.

@bensenbiz Hey mate, my understanding is that when Shinzen Young talks about strengthening the ego meditations he is talking about the effects of doing certain types of meditations. Essentially if you want to strengthen the ego you want to do meditations which are mostly centred around placing your awareness on inner sensory experiences, i.e. thought, rather than outer sensory experiences, i.e. sound, sight. The recommendation I made to you before are meditations which allow for you to have more awareness of your inner sensory experiences. Here is an intro Shinzen young's meditation system too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StBTuX0tqU8&pp=ygUZbm90aW5nIG1lZGl0YXRpb24gc2hpbnplbg%3D%3D

@bensenbiz https://www.reddit.com/r/nondirective/ I'd recommend trying out some of the meditations listed in the table on this subreddit. (just scroll down the linked page a bit and you'll find the table on the right side of the page)

@StarStruck I'd distinguish between love and sexual attraction

@Spiritual Warrior Yoga nidra, non-directive meditation, sensate focusing meditation, Trauma release exercises, Gestalt/ IFS, stretching. These are some practices that come to mind for me.

@Yimpa Hahaha same

@bensenbiz I think it depends on what type of meditation you are doing, and also you might be working through some shadow stuff, hence the judgmentalness/ sensitivity. These vids might be of value to you: https://youtu.be/3gv05sLZQBU

@StarStruck Maybe try some independent films i.e. via mubi. Perhaps you'll come across a more niche director you really like

Hardly the most nuanced view that its 'BS' lmao. Edit: I read the rest of the article. I think she makes some valid points. What I think she is saying at least in part is that the socio-historical context of the developers of the model means that they make certain distinctions. However, if they were from a different socio-historical context they would make different distinctions. And further, in part, development simply occurs differently in different socio-historical contexts anyhow. So, any stage model could only really ever apply to one socio-historical context. And, there are so many different socio-historical contexts even within members of one school class, i.e. poor kid v rich kid, that any stage theory is doomed to to be misleading and unuseful. I sort of struggled to understand what she was arguing but I think that is part of it. But I think you could rebut that by arguing that you just need studies in various different cultures, and then do a meta analysis of studies, and draw patterns. Then also make sure the research methodology isn't biased too. But to conclude that it makes stage theories 'bs' is not a very helpful conclusion I think. But hey its twitter i guess.

@StarStruck Organize a press conference, and make it clear that no one should ever be given this sort of power. And call for legislation restricting this ever happening again. Then immediately resign.

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@StarStruck To me, it appears the mode of introduction is a core boundary of taking part in the group. So, I think refusing to use that mode of introduction, whilst still trying to take part would be wrong of you. I think you could benefit from taking more ownership over your opinions. For example, stating 'I think X is the case' or 'I disagree with Y', rather than 'X is the case' or 'Y is wrong'. And, I think it would be plainly inflammatory to tell them they are full of shit or something akin. I don't see anything wrong with voicing that you disagree with the way the treatment is structured and that you disagree with some of their core beliefs around healing from addictions. I'd just do so in a civil, non-inflammatory manner.

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@StarStruck How do you see chess as collaborative?

@StarStruck Yeah I think its a great analogy. Though maybe a critique could be that it takes a competitive attitude to life instead of a collaborative one. So sometimes I prefer to see life as a puzzle instead. Maybe in masculine activities the chess analogy is preferable, and feminine activities the puzzle analogy is preferable.

Lilya 4-ever Come and see (1985) ^ Not futuristic films but contain very desperate stories imo