Everyone knows that lasting psychological change usually occurs after crossing some kind of threshold, for example hitting rock bottom, fulfilling an achievement, going through grief etc. These events can act as the catalyst for realisations and transformations that genuinely last in a way that many commitments to transformation simply don't.My question is, are there any ways - minus psychedelic use - to consciously create the conditions to enable psychological change? This thread is for collecting as many methods as possible and discussing their use.
idk if self-induced suffering would produce clarity it requires long term psychological trauma, not to be toyed withit's usually a silver-lining for those who are toast in that regardPsychological change is vague too. If you're trying to break bad habits or come to a new understanding, these have different applications.
>>42564858I'm talking about the kind of moments in life where years later you look back on it and recognise that it changed you. Those moments aren't always caused by suffering, but usually there's some confluence of events that creates a singular moment where the change occurs.The kind of moments where somebody decides to quit smoking/drinking, where they start a new healthy lifestyle, or discover a new hobby or way of seeing the world. Usually these moments of change feel like they happen beyond our control, I'm interested in looking at ways to create them from scratch.
>>42564813>My question is, are there any ways - minus psychedelic use - to consciously create the conditions to enable psychological change?yes, meditation. also standing in literal doorways.
>>42564891What kind of meditation? And are you suggesting that there's something about a physical doorway that influences the mind directly, or are you talking about using the doorway as an object of meditation to contemplate passing through a threshold?
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