helped me relax a lot about “ego” language in western spiritual writing, now i just translate it into parts language and it’s fine. ou don’t have to do any kind of making the “ego” bad or wrong. defense mechanisms are there because something is worth defending
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i unironically think the term “monkey mind” is disrespectful to monkeys
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IFS protectors can be like those japanese soldiers on isolated islands years after the end of WWII who kept fighting b/c they didn’t know the war was over. what they need is to be told, gently, that the war is over (if it is indeed over)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_
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not the source i had in mind but i’ve heard good things about loch kelly
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Loch Kelly has a whole thing on conceiving of the ego (/sense of self we commonly experience / identify with in our heads) as an IFS part in The Way of Effortless Midnfulness lochkelly.org/way-of-effortl. I believe it's a chapter.
Kelly & Richard Schwartz have done some collabs too
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> the Dalai Lama tilted his head, his eyes narrowed in confusion. “Self-hatred?” he repeated in English. “What is that?”
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Brings to mind this story I heard about the @DalaiLama (wow, he's on twitter, wonder if he can confirm that this really happened 
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i still haven't found the original blog post but i did find a minute-long video from richard schwarz
> “the Ego isn’t your enemy - it is a bunch of protective, manager parts that is necessary to try to keep you safe.”
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people think i've done a lot of IFS because of how warmly i talk about it here but actually i've barely done any at all. IFS for me is mostly about having a really respectful conceptual framework that avoids what i see as disrespectful conceptual mistakes in other frameworks
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i just blend with the parts and let them yell now 😛
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then i unblend and talk back sometimes is that better? 😅
any specific tips for me? i know you've mentioned experimenting and improvising on your own here
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