In part inspired by this post, I did one hour a day of loving-kindness meditation for ten days and the results were phenomenal. It’s too soon to tell if it’ll stick, but I think it’s fixed about 80% of my impostor syndrome and anxiety around impact, which have been a major source of stress for me for years.
I’ve tried everything before, like CBT, ACT, concentration practice, IFS, exercise, therapy, etc etc. Nothing had worked. And this has been by far the most successful thing I’ve tried.
Will be writing about it in more detail on LessWrong when I write the review about the Finder’s Course in a few weeks. Thank you so much for writing this article that gave me the extra push and framework I needed.
This has inspired me to try this too. I think I won’t do 1h per day because I’m out of practice with meditation so 1h sounds real hard, but I commit to doing 20 mins per day for 10 days sometime in February.
What resources did you use to learn/practice? (Anything additional to the ones recommended in this post?) Was there anything else that helped?
I’ve since been told about Tasshin Fogleman’s guided metta meditations, and have found their aesethic to be much more up my alley than the others I’ve tried. I’d expect others who prefer a more rationalist-y aesthetic to feel similarly.
The one called ‘Loving our parts’ seems particularly good for self-love practice.
So glad to hear it! I don’t use any particular resource. Just the general principle of generate the feeling of loving-kindness on something easy for you, then maintain that emotion while thinking of something that’s slightly harder to feel loving-kindness towards, then slowly level up, until you’re working on people really hard for you.
In part inspired by this post, I did one hour a day of loving-kindness meditation for ten days and the results were phenomenal. It’s too soon to tell if it’ll stick, but I think it’s fixed about 80% of my impostor syndrome and anxiety around impact, which have been a major source of stress for me for years.
I’ve tried everything before, like CBT, ACT, concentration practice, IFS, exercise, therapy, etc etc. Nothing had worked. And this has been by far the most successful thing I’ve tried.
Will be writing about it in more detail on LessWrong when I write the review about the Finder’s Course in a few weeks. Thank you so much for writing this article that gave me the extra push and framework I needed.
Amazing!
This has inspired me to try this too. I think I won’t do 1h per day because I’m out of practice with meditation so 1h sounds real hard, but I commit to doing 20 mins per day for 10 days sometime in February.
What resources did you use to learn/practice? (Anything additional to the ones recommended in this post?) Was there anything else that helped?
I’ve since been told about Tasshin Fogleman’s guided metta meditations, and have found their aesethic to be much more up my alley than the others I’ve tried. I’d expect others who prefer a more rationalist-y aesthetic to feel similarly.
The one called ‘Loving our parts’ seems particularly good for self-love practice.
So glad to hear it! I don’t use any particular resource. Just the general principle of generate the feeling of loving-kindness on something easy for you, then maintain that emotion while thinking of something that’s slightly harder to feel loving-kindness towards, then slowly level up, until you’re working on people really hard for you.
Good luck! Would love to hear how it goes :)