Ok the more I think about it, the more the sheer ubiquity of negative self-talk seems a *highly significant* cultural psychological feature of our society.
This mental pattern *means* something.
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this has been an ongoing curiosity of mine, i found this bit of a richard schwarz book very suggestive (click through and scroll down for more)
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"...but it is also important to consider the sociological development of what historian Phillip Cushman (1995) calls the “empty self” that arose in this country after World War II."
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my current vague sense of it is that WWII broke parenting in the US (idk about other countries). like the entire baby boomer generation developed attachment issues and those issues were passed on to gen X and so forth
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Mindfulness and meditation has been hugely helpful for me. The western approach is often "positive self talk" but that never really worked for me.
Instead I eventually became aware that negative self talk was just a channel I could "turn off" and enjoy the blessed silence.
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I've seen it, yeah! I guess part of me wonders if he actually didn't know what it was or if he kind of did but was making a point? If the former more amazing, if the latter less amazing to me
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i choose to believe it was the former so that he can make the point more successfully to me
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Yeah, I kind of wonder? That's an awfully wide gap to bridge
(Admittedly I know shit about this, have never met these folks, so)
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