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0. gendlin focusing. this is the very first therapy-like thing i ever encountered and i sometimes still return to it as a kind of "home base." gendlin seems to have been onto something very deep here. it wasn't enough by itself for me tho https://t.co/Kx9O6tQgAT
1. the NEDERA process / the bio-emotive framework: this stuff lowkey saved my life. taught me how to cry alone. highly recommended particularly if you feel like you really struggle to describe / express your feelings https://t.co/BNhWIuN3MK
2. internal family systems (IFS). i actually have not done this much but i've been doing it more recently and it's real good. i like it a lot as a conceptual framework for understanding what's happening with other modalities https://t.co/7IG59x5rkX
3. ideal parent figure protocol (IPFP). this stuff is so powerful i'm often scared to do it. i barely did a tiny bit of it awhile back and it made like 30% of my anxious attachment relax. i'm dipping back into it more now and it's amazing https://t.co/po3PoyUvBD
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 https://t.co/pg9L020Z1b
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 https://t.co/T4fyUCMDqz
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
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 https://t.co/culmlaDnLb
8. @meditationstuff'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 https://t.co/knyeSmGe0u
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 https://t.co/M793Hj0r7N
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 https://t.co/kDDTU2F8qt
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? https://t.co/J7zzvzHVO8
@QiaochuYuan ah and there is also the various energy work / body work / reiki etc modalities, which i have not personally explored but which i believe to be potentially very good, *given you can find the right person* (i haven't seen anyone for this stuff bc i don't know how to vet them yet)
@rothosphere yeah i'm more hesitant to recommend this sort of thing publicly for safety reasons, and sort of hopeful given warnings i've read from @meditationstuff that you can sort of sidestep it until you can do it for yourself if necessary?
12. alexander technique. i have very little experience here but something seems really important about it / expanded awareness. @m_ashcroft is the resident actual teacher guy but for fun i am going to link to @metaLulie's thread of threads https://t.co/9Ooruofisw
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" https://t.co/bGiUCptpRc
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 https://t.co/HMWWpfRZLD
@QiaochuYuan I've been celebrating avuncular (uncle-ish) dudes lately like @visakanv & @VividVoid_ and when I was high last week it clicked that what I think of as an ideal uncle is my model of an ideal parent. so good to realise I already have a highly developed model for this
@RichDecibels @visakanv @VividVoid_ 🥲 https://t.co/vTWzdfziCp
@QiaochuYuan the only other ones I know not on this list is existential kink and clown school (Pochinko mask method + Grotowski stuff) actually if you want to know more about grotowski the movie "my dinner with andre" is literally just 2 people at a restaurant having a conversation about it
@QiaochuYuan not really, there's my essay about it but it's not exactly an instruction manual lol: https://t.co/X3gzVPAgF5
@QiaochuYuan maybe also had a threat and I was on a podcast episode at some point https://t.co/XoanPrmF3i