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Sei
@SeishinWrites
One thing that I struggle with when doing IFS is that a lot of parts show up in quick succession and all want to be heard, and I get taken over by an overwhelmed/helpless/spread-too-thin part. What methods do y'all use to map your parts without falling into overwhelm?
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
also i've never particularly worried about whether i can identify how many parts there are or which things are coming from the same parts or if parts persist over time, i just write it all down. last time i did this it eventually settled into a dialogue between 2 parts
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Sei
@SeishinWrites
But like, what precisely do you write down? The things they're saying? The emotions? The names for the parts?
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Sei
@SeishinWrites
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@QiaochuYuan
And then it just kinda naturally coalesces into something, like a conversation with particular parts? Or do you do something specific with the things you write down?
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
sometimes take a moment to notice how i feel about them, sometimes take a break to focus on body sensations and feel the feelings and so forth, but mostly i just keep writing. a lot of my ability to make sense of things appears to live in my writing loop
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Visa ✈️ SF (Aug 2-14)
@visakanv
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@QiaochuYuan
yea my approach is similar rapid-fire thought fragments. you, what do you have to say? "i'm hungry", ok next, you? "i'm stressed about my book", ok who else "we haven't been sleeping well" got it, what else? "covid fucking sucks bro" – indeed. anybody else? this can go on 100+
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QC (in Berlin 7/29-???)
@QiaochuYuan
i've been pretty inspired by how you talk about just writing through it. and the sheer volume of everything you've written including the super old blog posts you occasionally link to. like damn yeah that is actually the appropriate order of magnitude of writing
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Malcolm Ocean in Berlin (37/100 vids)
@Malcolm_Ocean
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possible to do partswork without any particular ongoing sense of identity for the parts just recognizing and tending to the multiplicity of what's going on
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Malcolm Ocean in Berlin (37/100 vids)
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The self-integration work I've been doing lately hasn't involved reifying any particular parts in any ongoing way. I simply recognize that each of my thoughts represents the output/process of some subsystem. These systems evolve, and also may overlap. Can't neatly carve them up.
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