1/ It can be extremely valuable to view emotional issues as having an immediate payoff. For example, depression, anxiety, insecurity, failure at work, failure in romance, muscle tension, chronic pain, etc. can help one avoid fears or achieve unconscious goals. 2/ But very few people seem to consider that, and instead most people assume that emotional issues are all bad. 3/ Unfortunately, taking the concept of trauma too seriously can lead to more trauma.
actually, the only book I brought with me to the bay area was "The courage to be disliked". I think inverted causality is a useful frame to avoid the psychoanalytic doom spiral. I also like the idea that the self is constructed instrumentally by the conscious mind, which this post sort of hints at too.
I know we spared a bit at Manifest, but what you're saying here makes a lot of sense to me.
The book "The Depths" talks about the likely evolutionary origins of depression. Most depressions are triggered by some sort of loss. It's a mechanism to get the brain to hunker down and play safe. The continual replay of bad memories is designed to force the brain to think a lot about them to hopefully figure out ways to avoid those bad things happening in the future. Of course, this can all go off the rails, as we know. But it helpful to see the utility and understand the mechanisms at play.
Hey Chris, I wonder... It occurs to me that some people are "ready" to receive your message (story with insights) and move closer toward change (growth), and others might respond with the kind of skeptical resistance ("no, it must be X in my past"). Do you have a teleological "diagnosis" for this kind of resistance itself? How is that resistance *serving* the person who resists? And if you can understand that, can you then work on the resistance itself...?
actually, the only book I brought with me to the bay area was "The courage to be disliked". I think inverted causality is a useful frame to avoid the psychoanalytic doom spiral. I also like the idea that the self is constructed instrumentally by the conscious mind, which this post sort of hints at too.
I know we spared a bit at Manifest, but what you're saying here makes a lot of sense to me.
The book "The Depths" talks about the likely evolutionary origins of depression. Most depressions are triggered by some sort of loss. It's a mechanism to get the brain to hunker down and play safe. The continual replay of bad memories is designed to force the brain to think a lot about them to hopefully figure out ways to avoid those bad things happening in the future. Of course, this can all go off the rails, as we know. But it helpful to see the utility and understand the mechanisms at play.
Hey Chris, I wonder... It occurs to me that some people are "ready" to receive your message (story with insights) and move closer toward change (growth), and others might respond with the kind of skeptical resistance ("no, it must be X in my past"). Do you have a teleological "diagnosis" for this kind of resistance itself? How is that resistance *serving* the person who resists? And if you can understand that, can you then work on the resistance itself...?