I've long believed that sudden transformation isn't possible, only gradual. But reading about psychedelics, memory reconsolidation, IFS unburdening, meditation, neural annealing is making me reconsider. Maybe I've neglected the possibility of transformative experiences in my life
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I think it really depends on the dimension of change. I’ve been thinking about this a lot due to getting into intensive meditation, having some large implicit worldview changes happen very fast, and then retraumatizing myself and getting active PTSD with lots of anger & shame.
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Insight practices and psychedelics have a positive feedback effect — the more you practice, the more insight you experience, which makes getting into altered states easier, which makes experiencing more insight easier. You also get better at the techniques and mind moves involved
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Unfortunately trauma is also a positive feedback effect — if you experience a level of fight/flight/freeze-linked sensations that’s above a certain level, then you’ll link the other sensations in consciousness with danger & will experience more fight/flight/freeze in the future.
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Kind of curious here — do you feel like you’ve already been pushing into trauma positive feedback territory with meditation/psychedelics, or are you disappointed that future work might need to be at a slower pace?
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possibly already pushed into this territory, not sure. a big theme over the last... 6 months has been repeatedly realizing i've been in freeze and trying to get out of it, so i've learned it's easy for me to get stuck in freeze for ages and not notice
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