ChristianKl comments on A Weird Trick To Manage Your Identity - Less Wrong

2 Post author: Gleb_Tsipursky 19 September 2016 07:13PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 20 September 2016 09:18:22AM 0 points [-]

I can find plenty of people who report that chakra healing worked for them. There are self-reports for a lot of things working for people. That doesn't mean those things are necessarily good.

In this case it likely works for you in the sense that it produces a disassociation. Disassociating emotions is however generally not a optimal strategy for dealing with emotions. Mainstream psychology is generally against it.

There advantages of becoming a psychopath, but doing disassociative techniques that move in that direction is still not something I would recommend.

Comment author: Gleb_Tsipursky 20 September 2016 12:46:22PM -2 points [-]

I agree that it does produce disassociation, but I don't think, for me, it's about disassociating from emotions. It's a disassociation from an identity label. It helps keep my identity small in way that speaks to my System 1 well.