It's easy to make fun of SV inner work fads that come and go, but there's both real trauma there and interesting experimentation going on in how to address it, even if 90% of it seems to be trauma larping. Feels like the genuine 10% in this crowd deserve a name. Trauma yogis?
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This doesn't seem new, this sounds like encounter therapy. TBH I think "time to JUST focus on inner work and social permission not to hold it together" is an enduring need, just one that most people don't have the resources to meet.
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I have the intuition that it should be possible to live every moment "in good form", in the same sense that an exercise can be "in good form" -- at no point do you push yourself to do something not-quite-right in order to "get it done" at all.
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Psychologically, this would mean: no ambivalence, no regrets, no "pushing yourself" in a way that feels like a grind, no truly "wasted time" that you'd rather not admit to spending how you spent it.
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In typical life, we often have to keep going with necessary tasks when we still "haven't gotten to the bottom" of concerns that bother us. For me, the hope of "inner work" is that you could actually get to a mental "inbox zero" and stay there.
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Yeah good intuitions, which I share. My idea of "good form" is in fact the research on temporality I'm doing right now (and your PTSD paper provided one good piece of the puzzle on what collapsed "form" looks like in temporality terms). I'd add rehabilitation to your gym metaphor

