Psychology

suicide, suicidal ideation

Self-destructive patterns.

statement: if a thought is important, it'll persist

Request: Sometimes when I'm meditating, I'll have a thought or idea that I really want to remember/write-down. Recently, I've just been letting them go, on the basis of the prompt. Sometimes I'll forget things that seem really important at the time. Is there any Truth to the persistence idea?

false humility

"In a society that glamorizes humility, the enactment of humility becomes more important than a true embodiment of it" -- psychologytoday.

let it be easy (attitude)

Sometimes we get "locked into" an attitude or mental posture that makes / believes things harder than they have to be. We can snap out of that with this decision.

Paradoxical Intention

Request: a therapeutic technique developed by Viktor Frankl that involves encouraging clients to intentionally do or wish for the things they fear. It's based on the idea that by explicitly engaging with or desiring the feared behavior, anxiety and the undesired outcome can be reduced.

exposure therapy

Technique in behavior therapy to treat anxiety disorders. Exposure therapy involves exposing the target patient to the anxiety source or its context without the intention to cause any danger -- wikipedia.

statement: fear of life is fear of emotions

Request: Therefore we don't need to handle life, we just need to handle our emotions towards life.

"hurt people hurt people"

Request: Meaning people who hurt others are themselves hurting. I heard someone say it on a podcast, and they said it helps them forgive anyone who has wronged them.

conscience

"an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior" -- Google dictionary.

cognitive dissonance

By request. "The psychological discomfort or tension experienced when a person holds conflicting beliefs, values, or attitudes, or when their actions contradict their beliefs” -- Google AI.

3-2-1 Shadow process

By request: "A process to help us reverse and own the projections we make on the world and others."

shadow work

Priority request: “Working with your unconscious mind to uncover the parts of yourself that you repress and hide from yourself” — betterup.com.

Spiral Dynamics

"A model of the evolutionary development of individuals, organizations, and societies" -- wikipedia.

self-actualization

By request. “a concept central to humanistic psychology, is the process of fulfilling one's full potential and becoming the best version of oneself” -- Google AI.

free association (psychology)

The expression (as by speaking or writing) of the content of consciousness without censorship as an aid in gaining access to unconscious processes -- wikipedia.