The point I’m attempting to make is that psychiatric diagnoses, such as “hypomania”, are framed through a lens of pathology. A change in behavior or experience which causes no problems for the affected person and those around them would not be defined and studied in the same way that changes associated with problems are. Working from general research focused on pathologized changes of experience (ie clinical hypomania) is likely to yield resources that include negative states you’d rather not learn from while disregarding positive states that you’d prefer to emulate.
Toward the goal of tailoring subjective experience, I think you’re on the right track for breaking down the desired change into component parts and contemplating the parts separately at first.
Whatever you end up doing, try to avoid discounting hedonic treadmill effects when assessing the sustainable effectiveness of various interventions, and try to include ambient factors such as location, sleep quality, valence of recent news exposure, etc.
The point I’m attempting to make is that psychiatric diagnoses, such as “hypomania”, are framed through a lens of pathology. A change in behavior or experience which causes no problems for the affected person and those around them would not be defined and studied in the same way that changes associated with problems are. Working from general research focused on pathologized changes of experience (ie clinical hypomania) is likely to yield resources that include negative states you’d rather not learn from while disregarding positive states that you’d prefer to emulate.
Toward the goal of tailoring subjective experience, I think you’re on the right track for breaking down the desired change into component parts and contemplating the parts separately at first.
Whatever you end up doing, try to avoid discounting hedonic treadmill effects when assessing the sustainable effectiveness of various interventions, and try to include ambient factors such as location, sleep quality, valence of recent news exposure, etc.