this thing about being called a chad by your grandma feels related. there's probably a whole thing here about like "how would you like an ideal parent to congratulate you" or "how would you like an ideal older sibling to congratulate you"
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i guess i am just very sensitive to the implied relationship in whatever kind of congratulations. the self-conditioning stuff the rationalists tried to do felt like a boss-employee relationship which is *not* the kind of relationship i wanted or want to have with myself
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i've been doing a lot of talking loudly and animatedly to myself lately and it's looking like the relationship i actually want to cultivate with myself is "my own fraternity brother" which i fucking love. the landscape of parts as an "inner fraternity"
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i was in a fraternity in college and it was one of the happiest and most socially fulfilling times of my life so that particular vision has a resonance for me it will probably not have for many other people. finding a vision that is resonant for you is probably highly personal
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the ideal parent connection is worth elaborating on in a bit more detail - they talk about "five elements of secure attachment" and the one that surprised me the most was "unconditional support for explorations." like imagine smiling at a baby as they learn how to walk
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when unconditional support for explorations is missing people grow up terrified of stepping outside of their comfort zones. sound like anyone you know 😅 (it's me, i'm people)
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to expand it out a little, according to the ideal parent guys, one of the things your parents were supposed to do was beam love and support at you as you explored the world and tried new things. this is part of the natural learning process
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i've been working with a few clients on, for lack of a better word, math trauma, and in every case so far there was nothing even remotely like "unconditional support for explorations" - one of them was actively punished for exploring 😰
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it's been really wild to see, feels like a whole aspect of the human experience has been slowly rotating into view the more i work with these clients. *learning* can be disrupted by *attachment wounds*
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does a lot of cool stuff in his short snippet of self-dialogue i QT'd the other day, there's a moment here where he congratulates a part for drawing an image of a tree, you can catch moments of unconditional delight in there too
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feel can you do it? Flash it in our mind. Wow that’s beautiful that makes so much sense, I love the waves on the side like that ....
Okay that’s like a random 30 second livestream. Except almost none of it is lingual it’s mostly just feelings. Maybe 20% lingual
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it's maybe not good to analyze this stuff in too much detail because it's not as if you can replicate it by replicating the details. if i've learned anything about self-love it's that i already have a vision of the kind of self-love that feels real to me and it's really personal
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in conclusion: help me think of greek letters for my inner fraternity so i can chant them to myself, thank you
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oh duh i'm just gonna use my actual fraternity. theta xi! theta xi! theta xi! theta xi!
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