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> Emotions and addictions start small, and get stronger as we feed them by reacting to them. If you want to stop a destructive emotion or an addiction, learn to
by rahoulb 11y ago
> Emotions and addictions start small, and get stronger as we feed them by reacting to them. If you want to stop a destructive emotion or an addiction, learn to notice it early and stay completely equanimous to it.
I've just been doing a bit of reading on NLP and, underneath the jargon, one of the key ideas seems to be that emotional states have a physical location in your body - and if you can locate it then you can start to enhance or attenuate the emotion.
This sounds pretty similar, although approaching it from a different direction.
- mwidell 11y agoAuthor here. This is very interesting, as it sounds very similar to how it was explained at the Vipassana camp. What is a good starting point to familiarise oneself with NLP?
- elbear 11y agoThe wikipedia page is a good start, as it gives you an overview of the concept. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuro-linguistic_programming
- junto 11y agoA word of warning about NLP. Practitioners can be somewhat cultish. NLP is really about learning techniques to get people to do what you want then to do. Once they realise that you are doing that to them, they start to hate you for it. Once you have practised it for some time, you start to forget that you are doing it. Before long people hate you and you don't even know why. Imagine being able to hypnotise people using words to get them to do things that they might not really want to do. That's NLP. It's not sold like that though. It's sold as a way to empower yourself. Unfortunately, it is on other people's behalves.