A few weeks ago I ran a workshop at the EA hotel that taught my Framework for internal debugging. It went well but there was obviously too much content, and I have doubts about the ability for it to consistently effect people in the real world.
I’ve started planning for the next workshop, and creating test content. The idea is to teach the material as a series of habits where specific mental sensations/smells are associated with specific mental moves. These implementation intentions can be practiced through focused meditations. There are 3 “sets” of habits that each have seven or 8 meditations attached to them.
The idea is that the first course, the way of focus, teaches people the basic skills of working with intentions and focusing that are needed to not procrastinate. That is there are basic skills to focusing, that even if you don’t have any internal conflict or trauma, you still need to get things done. The first course starts with that.
7. Noticing Productivity - > Reinforcing Self-Concept as Productive Person (+ Changing Environment to That of Productive Person)
THE WAY OF LETTING GO (Overcoming Trauma)
Sometimes, you’ll have competing intentions come up that are very persistent, because they’re related to deep emotional issues/trauma. You can find them by looking for feelings of avoidance or the inability to avoid, and then use the following techniques to dispell.
1. Noticing Avoidance-> Fuse with the Feeling
2. Noticing Magnetism → Dissociate from Feeling
3. Inhabiting Feeling → Finding Emotional Core
4. Finding Emotional Core → Re-experince Memories
5. Sticky Belief → Question Belief Via Work of Byron Katie
6. Sticky Feeling → Let Go of Feeling Via Sedona Method
7. Sticky Memories → Reframe Memories Via Lefkoe Belief Process
8. Process Fails-> Find Second Layer Emotion.
THE WAY OF ALIGNMENT (Overcoming Internal Conflict)
Sometimes, you’ll notice competing intentions that aren’t unambigiously negative or positive, and it’s hard to know what to do. In those cases, you can notice the “conflicted” feeling, and use the following habits to deal with them over a period of time.
0. Noticing Conflict → Fuse/Dissociate With Feeling (Already Taught)
0. Easy to Fuse/Dissociate → Find Emotional Core (Already Taught)
I’m just finishing up the content for THE WAY OF FOCUS, and I’m looking for people to help test the material. It will involve commiting 30 minutes over the internet a day for 7 days. 10 minutes to practice previous meditations, 10 minutes to teach the new material, and 10 minutes to practice the new material via a new type of meditation.
INSTRUMENTAL RATIONALITY CURRICULUM
A few weeks ago I ran a workshop at the EA hotel that taught my Framework for internal debugging. It went well but there was obviously too much content, and I have doubts about the ability for it to consistently effect people in the real world.
I’ve started planning for the next workshop, and creating test content. The idea is to teach the material as a series of habits where specific mental sensations/smells are associated with specific mental moves. These implementation intentions can be practiced through focused meditations. There are 3 “sets” of habits that each have seven or 8 meditations attached to them.
The idea is that the first course, the way of focus, teaches people the basic skills of working with intentions and focusing that are needed to not procrastinate. That is there are basic skills to focusing, that even if you don’t have any internal conflict or trauma, you still need to get things done. The first course starts with that.
THE WAY OF FOCUS (Overcoming Akrasia).
1. Noticing dropped intention → Restabilizing intention
2. Noticing Competing Intention → Loving Snooze (+ Setting Up Pomodoros or Consistent Break Schedule)
3. Noticing Potential Intention → Mental Contrasting
4. Noticing Coercive Intention → Switching to Non-coercive Possiblity
5. Noticing Ambiguious/Overwhelming Intention → Generating Specific Next Action
6. Noticing Context Switch → Intention Clearing (+ Habits for Removing Distractions)
7. Noticing Productivity - > Reinforcing Self-Concept as Productive Person (+ Changing Environment to That of Productive Person)
THE WAY OF LETTING GO (Overcoming Trauma)
Sometimes, you’ll have competing intentions come up that are very persistent, because they’re related to deep emotional issues/trauma. You can find them by looking for feelings of avoidance or the inability to avoid, and then use the following techniques to dispell.
1. Noticing Avoidance-> Fuse with the Feeling
2. Noticing Magnetism → Dissociate from Feeling
3. Inhabiting Feeling → Finding Emotional Core
4. Finding Emotional Core → Re-experince Memories
5. Sticky Belief → Question Belief Via Work of Byron Katie
6. Sticky Feeling → Let Go of Feeling Via Sedona Method
7. Sticky Memories → Reframe Memories Via Lefkoe Belief Process
8. Process Fails-> Find Second Layer Emotion.
THE WAY OF ALIGNMENT (Overcoming Internal Conflict)
Sometimes, you’ll notice competing intentions that aren’t unambigiously negative or positive, and it’s hard to know what to do. In those cases, you can notice the “conflicted” feeling, and use the following habits to deal with them over a period of time.
0. Noticing Conflict → Fuse/Dissociate With Feeling (Already Taught)
0. Easy to Fuse/Dissociate → Find Emotional Core (Already Taught)
1. Familiar Conflict-> Alternate Fusing/Dissociating (practice switching perspectives)
2. Easy to shift perspectives → Practice holding both at once
3. Easy to hold both at once → Internal Double Crux
4. Memory Reconsolidated → Stack Attitudes
5. Attitudes Stacked → Core Transformation
6. Core Transformed → Parental Timeline Reimprinting
7. Timeline Reimprinted → Modality Mind Palace
ASK:
I’m just finishing up the content for THE WAY OF FOCUS, and I’m looking for people to help test the material. It will involve commiting 30 minutes over the internet a day for 7 days. 10 minutes to practice previous meditations, 10 minutes to teach the new material, and 10 minutes to practice the new material via a new type of meditation.