Thyself is a voice AI that helps you through emotional blocks and into flow. Upgrade the voice in your head
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On my @jhanatech retreat I developed a "Safety Theory" of meditation: basically, you can't fully enjoy things if you don't feel safe. Not only safe from physical/social threats, but also safe in the sense of "It's safe to devote all of my attention to this right now."
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Anything that connects the parts, energies, emotions, or whatever else is kicking around into beingness works wonders.
IFS is just one interface.
But all roads lead back to Rome (non-dual, decentralized liquid beingness) in the realm(s) of healing/integration and awakening.
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if you get only one message from this thread, i hope it’s this:
true self-acceptance helps you nourish and grow all parts of you, and it’s worth confronting every fear you may have about it
this is true for singers and artists — but imo it applies to every human
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excuse me the use of the 2nd person, but i want to speak directly to you: be gentle with yourself. there's likely so much more inside of you needing gentleness than you can possibly know. every opening i've experienced - in myself & others - brings up layers of stored fear & sadness. and what it needs, what it always needs, is profound, patient gentleness
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Fixating on how someone else needs to change is the opposite of embodying anger & setting boundaries. But it feels dangerously similar.
Fixating on how we've been wronged is the opposite of moving through grief & integrating loss. But it feels dangerously similar.
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Belief formation/refactoring only happens in the relaxed state, so much therapy is about reaching the point that the charge has dissipated enough to work with it while relaxed.
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nobody is coming to do an honest audit of your time and energy for you
only you can face the truth of how you are living your life, and whether it’s the life you know in your heart you are actually capable of living
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A rational new years resolution could be:
"Part of me wants to exercise more, but part of me would rather do other stuff.
I'm resolving to better understand my resistance to exercise, and better understand the pros and cons of exercising, so that I have better reasons to do it.
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Even though @ThyselfAI is not a therapist, I still get a warm fuzzy feeling when someone tells me it helped them with something more than their therapist did
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44. You can't stop the voice in your head.
But you can react to it in different ways, and that will change its tune.
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Love, kindness and care. Towards yourself and others. Not to be perfect. But amongst all of your imperfections. So that growth feels like unfolding. Not punishment.
That’s it.
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some time ago, but gradually, measure by measure, it became clear to me, intuitively at first then cognitively, that to be present to reality was always the better choice, even if I didn't agree
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Writing a post about parenting from the perspective of inner parts, and I'm realizing how much of the parenting world is laden with "shoulds". Parents should do X and parents should do Y....Kids should do X and kids should do Y. It's an epidemic. What does wanting (not shoulding) look like from a place of parenting and child wisdom? Can parents and kids want the same things instead of all of us drowning in a sea of shoulds?
In my experience, the shoulds of parenting exist in distrust of children, high expectations, perfection seeking, obedience, and obligation. The wants of parenting (and childhood for that matter) exist in trusting each other, being curious, showing love, being playful, having empathy, and showing/asking for forgiveness.
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In a parenting win today, my son walked into the room wanting to talk about a bike dispute with his sister.
I saw some emotion on his face, which he was trying to hold in, so I just got up and walked over and gave him a big hug. Told him that we didn’t need to talk about the bike dispute just yet, but that feeling these feels was more important.
And then he fell apart in my arms. Tears. Frustration. Sadness.
Once it was processed, we could talk about the bike dispute with his sister with ease.
Then we went outside and I did the same with my daughter (who was also feeling some big feels). Felt, processed, boom.
So powerful for me to see (for my own learning).
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Did u know that if you made ‘being helpful’ a load bearing part of your identity you can update to ‘being you, a multifaceted person who is often helpful but rarely to a degree that exceeds your own capacity’ & it’ll lead to you becoming far more effective at actually helping
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iii) A parts "way of looking" changes the way you address conflict.
Once you see your own parts, you start seeing others' too. And when you internalize "there are no bad parts," you reflexively become kinder and search for the signal anyone's big feelings have to offer.
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✍🏼 today's essay: using *thoughtfully-designed* AI to hold space for ourselves and develop new levels of presence
a case study on Thyself, a voice AI that guides you through self-therapy via somatic inquiry and Internal Family Systems
moremyself.xyz/p/thyself
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I've been skeptical about using AI for inner work
I appreciate AI for many things, but using it to navigate my inner world and being more human felt misaligned and unsettling
then I came across @thyselfai and it made me rethink AI's role in helping us become more ourselves
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I once tried doing IFS with @ThyselfAI in front of @johnsalvatier and it was pretty powerful (also, intense). It felt like it granted us an extra loving presence in the room when we were both triggered