T/F: the spiritual ego is a source of mental illness
Request: I've seen several sources claiming that both depression and addictions have a significant element of focus toward "inner regulation". To what extent though?
Self-help
"Your personality creates your personal reality"
Joe Dispenza explains that: Your personality = how you think, act, and feel every day… To change your life (your personal reality), you must change yourself (your personality) -- ChatGPT.
Take Aim, Even Badly (a Jordan Peterson video)
"At least it's a start. Most of the positive emotion that will characterize your life (at least of the sustaining kind) will be a consequence of watching yourself move successfully toward a valued goal."
play to win, not to lose
Priority request: Seems like a salesman who plays to not lose never makes a sale.
alchemical hypnotherapy
"Opens you to your inner world and attunes the body to the higher frequencies that the inner self provide. It teaches you to access your own unique spiritual guides and learn to work and interact with them daily to make changes in your life" -- alchemyinstitute.com.
The Art of Learning, by Josh Waitzkin
An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance. "After dominating the scholastic chess world for ten years, Waitzkin expanded his horizons, taking on the martial art Tai Chi Chuan and ultimately earning the title of World Champion" -- amazon.
[psi], by anonymous
"The seemingly simple story conceals a complex structure, which offers readers an interesting insight into the world of their own thoughts, values, and conceptions of themselves and others, while revealing how differently one can see, perceive, and understand the truth" -- psi-book.com.
Lucid Living: Experience Your Life Like a Lucid Dream, by Tim Freke
Request: Maps out the journey of awakening.
work-life balance
Priority request. "achieve the desired work and life satisfaction and needs in a conflict situation" -- wikipedia.
3-2-1 Shadow process
By request: "A process to help us reverse and own the projections we make on the world and others."
Life Energy, by John Diamond
Using the Meridians to Unlock the Hidden Power of Your Emotions.
Recapture the Rapture, by Jamie Wheal
Rethinking God, Sex, and Death in a World That's Lost Its Mind. Priority request.
not wanting to burden others with oneself
Such as refraining from actively participating in this community and asking unnecessary questions, believing that it could lower its average LoC -- request.
John Gottman, relationship researcher
His research focuses on divorce prediction and marital stability through relationship analyses. Gottman's work is centered on the field of relationship counseling: enhanced relationship functioning and mitigation of behaviors detrimental to human relationships -- wikipedia.
whole body "yes"
Priority request: Sometimes called the "Full Body Yes". Make decisions with head, heart and gut, only go for it if all say "yes".