4. somatic experiencing (SE). this is a modality for releasing trauma physically, which some people (e.g. victims of physical abuse) need desperately. i sprinkle a janky version of it i made up into my stuff
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5. coherence therapy. this is both a style of therapy and also a sort of metatherapy that encompasses and explains how other therapies work. i often use it as a conceptual framework and sometimes use some of its moves directly. great nerd bait
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6. LSD. i don't have a resource to link but i figured i might as well be up front about it. taking acid made me feel like i was alive again after having been dead for years. i chased that feeling towards many other good things, incl. the other things on this list
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7. MDMA. curiously enough i personally have gotten a lot less out of MDMA than LSD but also i've never taken it solo. this stuff is outrageously powerful, it makes no sense whatsoever that you can buy some for like $20 or whatever
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8. 's "manual of global wayfinding meditation": i have found the ideas in this document extremely helpful (i think there's a lot of overlap between "therapy" and "meditation") but i would not really recommend that newbies start here
meditationbook.page
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9. eye movement and desensitization reprocessing (EMDR). this is a modality for processing trauma. i have no experience with this and have no idea how it works but some friends of mine have reported good things
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10. co-counseling. i haven't experienced this but seems like a lot of overlap between what they call "discharging" and what you can get out of bio-emotive and/or somatic experiencing. been really helpful for me to read about this recently
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do you know RC / co-counseling? it calls what you're describing (laughing/shaking/crying) "discharge" & it's viewed as a central part of processing emotions
rc.org/publication/bo (website is awful but the practice is super interesting)
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11. feeding your demons. i also haven't experienced this but some friends of mine say it's helped them and uh it sort of spontaneously happened to me once when i did shrooms + acid. appears to be a kind of IFS inspired by chöd practice?
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12. alexander technique. i have very little experience here but something seems really important about it / expanded awareness. is the resident actual teacher guy but for fun i am going to link to 's thread of threads
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13. core transformation. i've only tried this a few times and didn't get too much out of it but other friends have gotten a lot more. the concept of a "core state" is quite interesting and i'd like to understand how it relates to IFS's "Self"
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14. existential kink. this is a shadow integration modality focused especially on experiencing what you might call "forbidden pleasures." the presentation is deliberately polarizing; i haven't tried it much but some friends have gotten good things
