The Wednesday Wellness threads are meant to encourage users to ask for and provide advice and motivation to improve their lives. It isn't intended as a 'containment thread' and any content which could go here could instead be posted in its own thread. You could post:
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Requests for advice and / or encouragement. On basically any topic and for any scale of problem.
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How many folks on the motte are into "emotional work," or self improvement, therapy, etc?
I have found a lot of value in practices designed to get you in touch with your emotions like somatic emotional meditations, loving kindness meditation, and even some IFS style stuff where you say loving things to yourself in the mirror, etc.
Unfortunately, being a relatively conservative Orthodox Christian, I find it quite difficult to explain the benefit of these practices to others in my social circles. I'm admittedly a relatively recent convert (in the last few years) but I do take the faith very seriously.
Anyway, just curious if other people here are open to this sort of thing?
I say the Jesus Prayer a moderate amount.
I'm also into Jungian psychology, but not super seriously. LLMs are good at that kind of thing, because it mostly matters whether something resonates and is meaningful, like dreams or fairy tales, which people will notice for themselves.
Hah, yeah it's in my flair. Or a version of it at least.
I will pray the Jesus prayer reflexively sometimes, I tried to practice hesychasm for a while and kept being frustrated with it, eventually my priest told me not to worry about it and meditate/pray in a way that helped me feel closer to God.
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