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You know... I wonder if working with a lot of this Bruce Tift material will lead me to do more with Core Transformation. I took a weekend workshop on it, have practiced it with folks... and lately have been using other parts work & juxtaposition practices instead. https://t.co/YWEjvJrlN7
And then the main reason: - When someone says, "I can't feel that core state" or "Isn't this cheating / wireheading though?" -- I didn't have a great answer that I deeply trusted I had some notes from the course, on what to say, and sometimes that would work
It's like... not trying to get someone to "generate" the feeling of a core state. Because core states are defined as unconditional, it's more of a *noticing* or bringing awareness to that aspect of your experience, that's already there.
** gestures vaguely but energetically at words from Dzogchen like "rigpa" ** https://t.co/CRnfTPvi6M
Bruce Tift's work gives a really solid response to "but is it cheating??" It's not cheating. You won't be able to escape somatic experiences like tightness in the chest, constricted throat, tension in the shoulders, roiling in the gut. You can get space from the story, though
It's very compatible with the juxtaposition move described in Coherence Therapy / Unlocking the Emotional Brain. Holding awareness of both "unlocks" the old emotional learning, and feeling the potential cognitive dissonance and weirdness of it invites the old pattern to update